Mawer Wins at 2011 Morningstar Canadian Investment Awards

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Dec. 1, 2011) - Mawer Investment Management's Martin Ferguson won the prestigious Morningstar Domestic Equity Fund Manager of the Year award at the 17^th annual Canadian Investment Awards.

In addition, Mawer won several other individual awards in the following categories:

• Canadian Equity Fund
  
  
• Canadian Equity Pooled Fund
  
  
• Canadian Small/Mid Cap Equity Pooled Fund
  
  
• Global Small/Mid Cap Equity Fund
  
  
• International Equity Fund
  
  
• International Equity Pooled Fund
  
  
• Global Balanced Pooled Fund
  
  

The 2011 Morningstar Canadian Investment Awards were held in Toronto on November 30^th to recognize leadership in the Canadian investment industry.

These awards are notable for a number of reasons.

• This is the third time Mawer has won a Manager of the Year award.
  
  
• Mawer Investment Management Ltd. has won Canadian Investment Awards in Canadian mid-large cap equities, Canadian small cap equities, International equities, US equities, Global small cap equities and Global balanced categories, demonstrating the Firm's expertise in managing multiple asset classes using the same in-house disciplined investment approach.
  
  
• This is the tenth award for the Mawer World Investment Fund in its category in the past ten years, winning in 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007 (two), 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 (two).
  
  

In addition to its family of mutual funds, Mawer also manages many identical or similar mandates for Institutional investors, such as pension funds and not-for-profit & foundation organizations, for Private Clients, and for sub-advised investment funds and separately managed account programs offered by broker-dealers across Canada.