European Funds Trophy
The ceremony rewarding the Best Funds and Asset Managers in Europe

For the winners selection we use methodology which consists of three steps:

• Ranking of funds

• Rating of funds

• Rating of Asset Managers

Ranking of funds

FUNDCLASS offers an objective analysis of risk and fund performance which lead to a perceptive ranking of the totality of funds available on the market. Performance achieved by one fund depends on the underlying strategy and consequently on the risks which are embedded. Risk profile for each fund are computed thanks to the APT tools and data of the SunGard group.
Approximately 210 homogeneous categories are needed to cover all type of risk profile.

Ranking takes into account the risk level born by the investor. We compute the ranking of funds based on the Risk Adjusted Performance (RAP) of each category. Performance is compared with competitors rather than benchmarks. The process is done every quarter and stored for each fund.
Inside a category, the RAP of each fund is:

Rating of funds

Before comparing funds, it is essential to establish coherent sub groups within the fund population. FUNDCLASS has adopted a “buy side” approach, meaning that we consider that a fund can be compared to another fund only if there is a similar risk profile. Categorization determines the universe of reference of the rival funds.
The rating must be established in relation to the performance of competing funds belonging to the same category.
The rating must reflect performance in the medium term.
Funds are ranked every quarter on their last 12 months performance. Funds which have been ranked by us for 12 consecutive quarter are then given a mark equal to its average decile.

FUNDCLASS has defined a scale of Rating based on the average decile.

Rating of Asset Managers

Every European Asset Manager having a rated fund is rated. In order to create coherent groups, categories are defined by number of rated funds.
Scale evaluation for rating funds :

Considering the entire set of funds rated for one Asset Manager, we calculate its corresponding weighted average value :

We compute the average mark of all Asset Managers and define 8 categories according to the number of funds held :

In each category, the European winner is the Asset Manager with the highest average mark.