EUROPE – German pension fund Ärzteversorgung Westfalen-Lippe (AeVWL) won the award for Best Real Estate Investing at the twelfth annual IPE Pension Fund Awards in Copenhagen on Thursday evening.
PensionDanmark was the big winner, scooping up the Denmark Country Award, the Silver Award for Best Industry-wide Pension Fund and the Gold Award for Best European Pension Fund.
Lars Rohde – the longstanding chief executive at ATP who is to become the next governor of the Danish central bank – won this year's gong for Outstanding Industry Contribution, while Geraldine Leegwater, CIO at ABN AMRO Pensioenfonds in the Netherlands, was voted Pension Fund Personality of the Year.
The final Gold Award, for the best long-term investment strategy, went to the UK's Pension Protection Fund, which also won the award for Liability-Driven Investment.
Clwyd Pension Fund in Wales, which also did well on the night, won the Silver Award for Best Public Pension Fund, as well as the Bronze Award for Alternatives Investing.
ERAFP also took home two prizes, winning the France Country Award and the ESG/Corporate Governance Award, as did SPK-Sparinstitutens Pensionskassa, which landed the Sweden Country Award and the Innovation Award.
The other two Silver Awards went to Skanska Trean Allmän Pensionsstiftelse, voted Best Corporate Pension Fund, and the Accenture Defined Contribution Pension Plan, voted Best Small Pension Fund.
The remaining Bronze Awards went to Austria's APK Pensionskasse AG for Fixed Income Investing and Denmark's PKA for Equities Investing.
The full list of winners for the IPE Awards 2012
Gold Awards
Best European Pension Fund: PensionDanmark
Outstanding Industry Contribution: Lars Rohde
Pension Fund Personality of the Year: Geraldine Leegwater
Long-Term Investment Strategy: Pension Protection Fund
Silver Awards
Best Public Pension Fund: Clwyd Pension Fund
Best Industry-wide Pension Fund: PensionDanmark
Best Corporate Pension Fund: Skanska Trean Allmän Pensionsstiftelse
Best Small Pension Fund: Accenture Defined Contribution Pension Plan
Bronze Awards
Fixed Income Investing: APK Pensionskasse AG
Equities Investing: PKA
Alternatives Investing: Clwyd Pension Fund
Country Awards
Austria: fair-finance Vorsorgekasse AG
Belgium: Pensioenfonds KBC
Central & Eastern Europe: Swedbank Pension Fund K3 (Growth Strategy)
Denmark: PensionDanmark
Finland: Etera Mutual Pension Insurance Company
France: ERAFP
Germany (bAV): Bosch Pensionsfonds AG
Germany (Versorgungswerk): WPV
Ireland: Construction Workers' Pension Scheme
Italy: PensPlan Pension Funds
Netherlands: Pensioenfonds ING
Norway: Oslo Pensjonsforsikring AS
Portugal: Fundo de Pensões Aberto BPI Valorização
Spain: Pensions Caixa 30, FP
Sweden: SPK-Sparinstitutens Pensionskassa
Switzerland: Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch
United Kingdom: Trafalgar House Pension Trust
Small Countries: Hotel Employees Provident Fund
Themed Awards
Alternative Benchmarks: PKA
Commodities Investing: APG All Pensions Group
DC Structures & Hybrids: NEST (National Employment Savings Trust)
Emerging Markets Investing: Royal County of Berkshire Pension Fund
ESG/Corporate Governance: ERAFP
Hedge Funds Investing: Tapiola Mutual Pension Insurance Company
In-house Team/Pensions-owned Asset Manager: British Steel Pension Fund
Innovation: SPK-Sparinstitutens Pensionskassa
Liability-Driven Investment: Pension Protection Fund
Real Estate Investing: Ärzteversorgung Westfalen-Lippe
Risk Management Solutions: CERN Pension Fund
Use of Specialist Managers: Merchant Navy Officers Pension Fund
