EVLI BANK PLC PRESS RELEASE OCTOBER 27, 2016 AT 9.00 AM
Evli has been ranked as the Best Institutional Asset Manager in Finland in SFR's newly published Institutional Asset Management Client Survey measuring the overall quality of asset management and mutual funds.* As a recognition of this, Evli was awarded with the SFR Platinum Award.
Evli receives particular praise for its 3-year investment performance, ability to take a market view, the quality of client servicing as well as resources and stability. Evli is also the most commonly used asset management house among the 14 asset management houses that institutions assessed in the survey. 60 percent of the respondents had Evli as their asset manager.
Evli Bank's CEO Maunu Lehtimäki is very pleased about the recognition: "The SFR client survey is a highly esteemed survey in our industry. The fact that we reached first place for the second year in a row makes the achievement even more significant. I want to express my warm gratitude to all our clients for their trust in our services and our expertise."
In SFR's client survey, Finland's largest institutional investors asses the individual asset management service and mutual funds of the asset management houses based on 11 quality criteria. The survey includes insurance companies, pension foundations and funds, charitable foundations, associations of parishes and cities, for example. SFR is a very esteemed client research institution among exacting and Finland's largest institutional investors.
*= "SFR Investment Services Programme, Finland 2016; Competitive Positioning Report"; Investment Services Combined (Asset Management & Mutual Funds). Scandinavian Financial Research.
Additional information:
Janne Lassila, Evli Fund Management Company Ltd, Managing Director, tel. +358 (0)9 47669 142
Timo Hovi, Institutional Asset Management, Director, tel. +358 (0)9 47669 306
Evli Bank Plc in brief
Evli is a genuine private bank specializing in investment that helps private persons and institutions increase their wealth. The company offers asset management services, capital markets related services, such as brokerage of equities and other instruments, market making, investment research and a full range of Corporate Finance services.
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