ING Investment Management (INGIM) is pleased to announce that ING Clarion Real Estate Securities (ING Clarion) - a specialist manager of equity real estate securities, has won the Property category of the 2009 S&P Fund Awards for the third year in a row.

ING Clarion is one of the largest and most experienced portfolio management teams in the world, with one of the longest track records managing global real estate securities. INGIM appointed US-based ING Clarion in 2005 to manage the investment strategy of the ING Global Property Securities Fund (ING GPS Fund).

The ING GPS Fund has maintained a solid performance track record, relative to its peers, throughout the global financial crisis and is also one of the few global property securities capabilities in the Australian market to have a five star rating from S&P in this asset class. Not surprisingly INGIM has continued to see inflows in excess of $600 million from Australian investors for its global property securities offering so far this year.
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La Trobe Financial has been announced as a winner in the Mortgage Fund and Cash Management Trust Account categories for Money Magazine’s ‘Best of the Best 2009′ Awards.

The La Trobe Mortgage Fund is particularly pleased to be recognised as 2nd-placed in the Best Mortgage Fund in Australia category, and 3rd Best Cash Management Account as it came up against a number of other bank and international fund managers in both categories.
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