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Edmond de Rothschild Asset management wins the SimCorp StrategyLab Growth Management Excellence Award 2010

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Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management has been announced the winner of the
SimCorp StrategyLab Growth Management Excellence Award 2010. The award was
presented at one of the largest investment management industry events, the
SimCorp Dimension International User Community Meeting, in Berlin earlier
today. 
 
SimCorp StrategyLab announced this year's winner of the SimCorp StrategyLab
Growth Management Excellence Award at an event in Berlin, at which close to 400
senior delegates from the international investment management industry
witnessed Edmond Rothschild Asset Management take home the award. 

The assessment was based on Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management achievements
within growth management accomplished in the period from 1 August 2009 to 31
July 2010. The award was given to Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management for
their ability to not only weather the challenging conditions during the worst
financial crisis, but also for putting a growth strategy in place that secured
the organisation considerable increase in the number of clients, in revenue and
in earnings. In particular, the selection committee noted that Edmond de
Rothschild Asset Management had been able to grow total asset under management
by more the 52% of which more than half is contributed to the organisation's
focus on growth and improvement on performance. 

“Our growth is entirely dependent on our ability to provide quality investment
services and generate sustainable alpha for our clients”, says Philippe
Couvrecelle, Chairman of the Executive Board of Edmond de Rothschild Asset
Management. “International expansion and product innovation are, and always
will be, key to our industry. Our group has a long history of innovation and
readily embraces new markets and new investment ideas. With the right, flexible
and scalable IT platform in place, we are able to grow through structured
international development and safe development of investment management
techniques. Further, it provides a risk control system that is among the most
sophisticated in the industry.” 

Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management was named the winner after thorough
evaluation of entries by an international jury consisting of distinguished
specialists and academics within finance and governance. The jury included
professor and director of SimCorp StrategyLab, Ingo Walter, professor Paul
Verdin of KU Leuven University, professor Michael Pinedo of Stern School of
Business, NYU, and SimCorp's CEO Peter L. Ravn. 

The award has been established for the purpose of rewarding and promoting best
practices within risk, cost and growth management in the global investment
management industry. 

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Enquiries regarding this announcement should be addressed to: 
Lars Falkenberg, Assistant Director, SimCorp StrategyLab (+45 35 44 88 00, +45
26 30 01 27) 

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About Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management   
An affiliate of La Compagnie Financière Edmond de Rothschild, Edmond de
Rothschild Asset Management is specialised in managing equities, convertible
bonds and asset allocation for institutional investors, banking and insurance
company partners and distribution platforms throughout the world. Focusing on
stock analysis and selection and asset allocation, Edmond de Rothschild Asset
Management relies on unique know. The results testify to the firm's impressive
capacity to deliver sustainable performance. This historic success is also
largely due to our conviction management and our systematic strategy of driving
innovation in both asset management techniques and geographical approaches in
the search for permanent alpha creation. At August 27 2010, Edmond de
Rothschild Asset Management had EUR 12.34bn under management, of which EUR
9.6bn in equities and EUR 1.3bn in Chinese and Asia ex Japan equities. 

SimCorp StrategyLab 
SimCorp StrategyLab is a private research institution, headed by Mr Ingo
Walter, Seymour Milstein Professor of Finance, Corporate Governance and Ethics
at Stern School of Business, New York University. SimCorp StrategyLab research
work focuses on identifying, understanding and suggesting solutions to issues
pertaining to mitigating risk, reducing cost and enabling growth in the
investment management industry. www.simcorpstrategylab.com

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