Last week, 45 companies from the mutual fund business won awards at a virtually hosted industry awards show run by Pageant Media’s Fund Intelligence team.

Catherine "Cathie" Wood ARK Investment Management, LLC Founder and Chief Executive Officer

This was the first time that the event, traditionally an in-person celebration in New York City, was done virtually.

The biggest winners at this year's Mutual Fund Industry and ETF Virtual Awards included ARK Invest, which was the biggest winner with four wins and two runner-up/honorable mentions (named "highly commended"), and VanEck and TIAA's Nuveen each with 3 wins.

Other multi-award winners included DWS Asset Management with two wins and one runner-up, and Invesco, BNY Mellon, Pimco, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and Franklin Templeton, each with two wins.

Finally, Virtus and Innovator ETFs also rose above the single-award winners, each tallying one win and one runner up award.

29 firms won a single award each. They included: SSGA, Exchange Traded Concepts, Heartland Advisors, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, T. Rowe Price, Sullivan & Worcester, Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, Summit Global Investments, Equitable Funds Management Group, K&L Gates, Paul Hastings, American Century, Alger, Neuberger Berman, Polen Capital, Charles Schwab Investment Management, Sebastian Benkert, DoubleLine, Empower Retirement (the sole retirement provider that won), Cboe Vest, Columbia Funds, Janus Funds, Pacific Select Funds, Proskauer, First Trust, JPMorgan Asset Management, Cambria Investment Management, Global X, and Procure AM

Five other firms got on the board with a sole runner-up, including Putnam Investments, Transamerica, MFS Investment Management, Westwood Holdings Group, and Nationwide. 

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