The folks at Franklin Templeton and Matthews Asia may still be celebrating here in Manhattan after some big wins.

Those were two of the 42 winning firms (32 of them asset managers) recognized earlier this week at the 2024 With Intelligence Mutual Fund and ETF Awards. The event was held at the Metropolitan Club in New York City, and awards were divided into several categories: asset manager sales, marketing and leadership awards; ETF awards; mutual fund performance awards; fund director awards; lifetime achievement awards; and rising star awards.

Matthews and Franklin led the asset manager pack with three awards each, including a "With Intelligence Lifetime Achievement" award for Putnam chief Bob Reynolds. (Franklin bought Putnam earlier this year.) Matthews' awards recognized three "Rising Stars": Kathlyn Collins, Peeyush Mittal, and Vivek Tanneeru.

Asset management firms that won two awards each included: Angel Oak; BondBloxx; Calamos; Ameriprise's Columbia Threadneedle; DWS (including Xtrackers); Gamco (including a "Rising Star" award for Audrey Melville of Gabelli Funds); J.P. Morgan Asset Management; and Thornburg Investment Management (including induction into the "Hall of Fame."

Other winning asset managers included: AlphaCentric; AmericanCentury's Avantis; Amplify ETFs; Catalyst; Tortoise's Ecofin; GMO; Goldman Sachs Asset Management; Guggenheim; Heartland; Innovator ETFs; John Hancock; Morgan Stanley Investment Management; Natixis' Loomis Sayles; North Square; TIAA's Nuveen; Pacer ETFs; Perpetual Asset Management; Polen Capital; Radiant Global Investors; Sprott; T. Rowe Price; and Tema ETFs.

Non-asset manager winners included: Ropes & Gray (with 3 awards); Ascensus (with 2 awards); Dechert; Keramas; Management Practice, Inc.; MarketVector Indexes; Morgan, Lewis & Bockius; Simpson Thacher & Bartlett; Stradley Ronon; and Willkie Farr & Gallagher. 

Edited by: Neil Anderson, Managing Editor


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