AEGON Asset Management has won the Best Group Award in the Bond (Large) category at the Lipper UK Funds Awards, held last night (27 February) at Clothmakers’ Hall in London.

This is the latest success for AEGON Asset Management’s fixed income team, which also won the Best Fixed Interest manager at the recent AIG Life Fund Manager of the Year Awards 2006, and is the current Professional Pensions Fixed Fund Manager of the Year.

Presenting the award to AEGON’s joint head of fixed income David Roberts, Lipper said AEGON Asset Management had “excelled in delivering consistently strong risk-adjusted performance relative to their peers in achieving the highest Lipper Leader consistent return rating.”  

Earlier this month Audrey Ryan, manager of the AEGON Ethical Equity Fund, picked up the Money Observer Award for best ethical fund manager. This followed a fantastic year from a performance perspective, which saw the Fund return 32.44% to rank sixth in the UK All Companies sector for the year to 29 December 2006 and retain its top quartile performance over one, three and five years.

In recognition of this expertise, AEGON Asset Management is launching three new retail funds on 1 March 2007: Ethical Cautious Managed, UK Cautious Managed and UK Opportunities. The cautious managed funds draw on the skills of both the fixed and UK equities teams, while the UK Opportunities provides Audrey Ryan with an unconstrained investment universe.

AEGON Asset Management chief executive Andrew Fleming said:

“Winning the Lipper award is a fantastic achievement and underlines the strength and ability of our fixed income fund management team. This confirms our position as one of the pre-eminent fixed managers in the UK marketplace.

“We have consistently proved we have the strength and depth to deliver added value for our clients and it is fantastic to receive this award as recognition for the tremendous effort of our fixed income team over many years.”

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Notes to Editors

AEGON Asset Management UK's assets under management total more than £40 billion*. The company's activities are divided into three business areas, Institutional Business, Insured Business and Retail-Fund Business.

*Source: AEGON Asset Management, as at 31 January 2007.

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