Investment - Articles - Standard Life Investments GARDS wins 100 Club Award

 Global fund manager, Standard Life Investments is delighted that its Global Absolute Returns Strategies (GARS) Fund has won the Alternative Investment Category at this year's inaugural 100 Club Awards from Investment Adviser. The ceremony, which took place last night at the offices of the Financial Times at 1 Southwark Bridge in London, names the ‘crème de la crème of UK retail investments.

 Standard Life Investments GARS* fund won the Alternative Investment Category award on the basis of its performance over one and three years beating off competition from BH Global, CF Odey and Threadneedle to win.

 Jacqueline Lowe, Head of UK Wholesale, Standard Life Investments said;

 "This is a fantastic result for our Multi Asset Investment team, and Standard Life Investments is delighted to be part of this inaugural award from Investment Adviser. GARS has helped steer investors through some extreme market conditions over the last three years and the Strategy is now more relevant than
 ever."

 *GARS seeks to deliver an absolute return similar to that which might be expected from equities in the long-term, but with significantly less risk. This is sought through a dynamic multi-asset, multi-market strategy that manages investments across a range of traditional and non-traditional sources of return. GARS currently has £13.1bn of assets under management. Its popularity to date derives from its riskadjusted performance where it has delivered gross annualised returns of 7.8% over the last three years with a volatility level of 4.7%. This is in stark contrast to returns from global equities over the same period, with the MSCI World TR GBP Index returning 7.7% with volatility of 13%. (Source Standard Life Investments, data to 30th September 2012)