Last night the
MFEA held their 19th annual STAR Awards in Chicago and it was an impressive display of mutual fund communications.
| John W. Rogers, Jr. Ariel Investments Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer | |
The awards were numerous and you can find a full list of the winners on the STAR Awards
website, but here's a summary of what happened last night at the Chicago Hyatt Regency:
-Among the small firm category, the biggest winner of the night was
Ariel Investments [
profile], the hometown Chicago fund firm took home 6 retail and 2 overall STARs.
-For the medium size firms,
Aberdeen Asset Management [
profile] came out on top with 8 retail, 7 advisor and 2 overall STARs,
-The large firmwas not dominated by any particular firm, but the winners of the night included
Nuveen [
profile],
Neuberger Berman [
profile],
Putnam [
profile],
Nationwide [
profile],
Deutsche Asset and Wealth Management [
profile],
Hartford Funds [
profile],
Thornburg [
profile].
-And for the large plus group, the retail awards went to a mix of firms including
John Hancock [
profile],
Franklin Templeton [
profile],
T. Rowe Price [
profile],
Columbia Threadneedle [
profile],
Goldman Sachs [
profile],
Invesco [
profile],
Janus [
profile],
MFS [
profile] and
JPMorgan [
profile].
The awards dinner featured a open bar cocktail hour and a dinner that included an arugula and tomato salad, grilled filet mignon and seared Loch Duart salmon, and for dessert a Black Forest tart with dark chocolate ganache, chocolate shavings and cherry compote.
Our sister publication
401kWire covered the STAR Retirement Awards winners, which you can read
here. 
Correction: A prior version of this story gave the wrong number of retail awards won by Aberdeen.
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