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Awards and Accolades: One Measure of our Success in Serving Clients
Reflecting our firm’s history of excellence and innovation since 1869, Barron’s named Goldman, Sachs & Co. to its Most Respected Companies list in February 20111 and Fortune ranked our firm #25 on its 2011 World’s Most Admired Companies list.2
Continuing our firm’s legacy, Goldman Sachs Asset Management offers solutions for every investor across asset classes, regions and the risk spectrum. Our clients include many of the world’s most discerning institutional and individual investors,3 and our investment solutions can adapt to changing environments, capitalize on new opportunities and evolve over a lifetime.
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2010 GSAM wins DALBAR Service Award:6 “Service to Financial Professionals” in 2010, receiving the high honors award 11 out of 13 years Goldman Sachs Funds Awarded 2010 Lipper Awards:7 “Best Mid Cap Value Fund” for our Mid Cap Value Fund (Class I) “Best Short U.S. Government Fund” for our Short Duration Government Fund (Class I) |
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2009 Goldman Sachs Fund Awarded 2009 Lipper Award:8 “Best Short U.S. Government Fund” for our Short Duration Government Fund (Class I) |
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| 2007 Goldman Sachs Funds Awarded 2007 Lipper Awards:10 “Best Large Overall Fund Family” and “Best Mixed Asset Large Fund Group” “Best Emerging Markets Debt Fund” for our Emerging Markets Debt Fund (Class I) “Best Large Cap Core Fund” for our Structured U.S. Equity Fund (Class I) “Best Mixed-Asset Target Allocation Growth Fund” for our Equity Growth Strategy Portfolio (Class I) “Best Short Municipal Debt Fund” for our Short Duration Tax Free Fund (Class I) |
1 Barron’s surveys money managers about their views of the 100 largest companies in the world based on total stock market capitalization. This year’s 92 respondents graded each company and ranked the factors they consider in determining respect for corporations.
2 Fortune’s Most Admired Companies list is created from survey results submitted by 4,100 business leaders, executives, directors and securities analysts around the world. In addition to rating companies according to nine reputational attributes, survey respondents are asked to identify the 10 companies they admire most from a list of companies that ranked in the top 25 percent in last year’s survey, plus those that finished in the top 20 percent of their industry.
3 Investors who have selected Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management include nearly 50% of the Forbes 400 (Source: Forbes.com, September 2009. Reprinted by permission of Forbes Magazine © 2009 Forbes Inc.).
4 2011 Lipper Fund Award: “Best Short U.S. Government Fund” is for five- and 10-year risk adjusted performance among 79 and 58 eligible funds, respectively, for the period ended Dec. 31, 2010. Fund classification averages are calculated with all eligible share classes for each eligible classification. The calculation periods extend over 36, 60, and 120 months. The highest Lipper Leader for Consistent Return (Effective Return) value within each eligible classification determines the fund classification winner over three, five, or 10 years. Although Lipper makes reasonable efforts to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data contained herein, the accuracy is not guaranteed by Lipper. Source: Lipper, Inc. Past performance is not indicative of future results, which may vary.
5 Ranking for Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., includes GSAM, PWM and Merchant Banking 2010 year-end assets. Ranked 10th in Total Assets Worldwide. Pensions&Investments, June 2011.
6 GSAM participates in an external mutual fund and annuity post-sales service quality review program (DALBAR) focused on Broker/Dealers. GSAM, along with 39 other asset managers, uses the DALBAR program as a way to independently measure phone service quality based on service standards that are evaluated monthly and consist of: (1) Expertise; (2) Accommodation; (3) Attitude; and (4) Call Interrupts (hold or wait time). In 2010 GSAM won the Financial Intermediary Post-Sale Service Award which recognizes firms that have consistently exceeded all service standards throughout the year. GSAM has won the Service Award 11 of the past 13 years.
7 2010 Lipper Fund Awards: “Best Mid Cap Value Fund” is for the 10-year risk-adjusted performance among 60 eligible funds for the period ended Dec. 31, 2009, “Best Short U.S. Government Fund” is for three-, five-, and 10-year risk-adjusted performance among 80, 76, and 54 eligible funds, respectively, for the period ended Dec. 31, 2009. Fund classification averages are calculated with all eligible share classes for each eligible classification. The calculation periods extend over 36, 60, and 120 months. The highest Lipper Leader for Consistent Return (Effective Return) value within each eligible classification determines the fund classification winner over three, five, or 10 years. Although Lipper makes reasonable efforts to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data contained herein, the accuracy is not guaranteed by Lipper. Source: Lipper, Inc. Past performance is not indicative of future results, which may vary.
8 2009 Lipper Fund Awards: “Best Short U.S. Government Funds” is based on risk-adjusted performance for the three-year, five-year, and 10-year periods and is out of 82, 76, and 53 funds, respectively, for the period ended Dec. 31, 2008. The highest Lipper Leader for Consistent Return (Effective Return) value within each eligible classification determines the fund classification winner over three, five, or 10 years. Although Lipper makes reasonable efforts to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data contained herein, the accuracy is not guaranteed by Lipper. Source: Lipper, Inc. Past performance is not indicative of future results, which may vary.
9 2008 Lipper Fund Awards: “Best Mixed Asset Large Fund Family” is for the three-year, risk adjusted performance among 32 large fund groups for the period ended Dec. 31, 2007. Large fund groups with at least five equity, five bond, and three mixed asset portfolios that received Consistent Return scores as of Dec. 31, 2007, are eligible for an overall fund group award. “Best Emerging Markets Debt Fund” is for the three-year risk-adjusted performance among 46 eligible emerging markets debt for the period ended Dec. 31, 2007. Although Lipper makes reasonable efforts to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data contained herein, the accuracy is not guaranteed by Lipper. Lipper determined the large fund group awards by averaging the decile rank of the three-year Consistent Return scores for all of the firm’s funds within the asset class, and the eligible group with the lowest average decile rank received the award for that asset class. In the case of a tie, the group with the lower average percentile rank received the award. Although Lipper makes reasonable efforts to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data contained herein, the accuracy is not guaranteed by Lipper. Source: Lipper, Inc. Past performance is not indicative of future results, which may vary.
10 2007 Lipper Fund Awards: “Best Large Overall Fund Family” is for the three-year risk-adjusted performance among 27 large fund groups for the period ended Dec. 31, 2006. Large fund groups with at least five equity, five bond, and three mixed equity portfolios that received Consistent Return scores as of Dec. 31, 2006, are eligible for an overall fund group award. “Best Mixed Asset Large Fund Group” is for three-year risk-adjusted performance among 28 eligible fund companies, using a combination of stocks and bonds to achieve consistent returns as of Dec. 31, 2006. In this category, fund groups with at least three mixed-asset portfolios that received Consistent Return scores as of Dec. 31, 2006 were eligible for a Best Mixed Asset Large Fund group award. Lipper determined the large fund group awards by averaging the decile rank of the three-year Consistent Return scores for all of the firm’s funds within the asset class, and the eligible group with the lowest average decile rank received the award for that asset class. In the case of a tie, the group with the lower average percentile rank received the award. “Best Emerging Markets Debt Fund” and “Best Short Municipal Debt Fund” is for the three-year risk-adjusted performance among 44 eligible emerging market debt funds and 51 eligible short municipal debt funds, respectively, for the period ended Dec. 31, 2006. “Best Large Cap Core Fund” is for the 10-year risk-adjusted performance among 251 eligible large cap core funds and “Best Mixed-Asset Target Allocation Growth Fund” is for the five-year risk-adjusted performance among 350 mixed-asset target allocation growth funds for the period ended Dec. 31, 2006. Fund classification averages are calculated with all eligible share classes for each eligible classification. The calculation periods extend over 36, 60, and 120 months. The highest Lipper Leader for Consistent Return (Effective Return) value within each eligible classification determines the fund classification winner over three, five, or 10 years. Although Lipper makes reasonable efforts to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data contained herein, the accuracy is not guaranteed by Lipper. Source: Lipper, Inc. Past performance is not indicative of future results, which may vary.