AKO Capital
One of Europe’s foremost investment partnerships, AKO Capital has a long-term investor base that counts many of the world’s leading institutional investors, endowments, sovereign wealth funds, and charitable foundations. It incorporates a rigorous and proprietary bottom-up investment approach to build a portfolio that combines exemplary management and excellent economic characteristics.
Assets under management: $17 billion (circa 2019)
- AKO Capital was awarded ‘Best European Equity Fund over $500m’ in 2012 by Eurohedge.
- Demonstrating consistency of performance, AKO was nominated for the ‘Best European Equity Fund’ and ‘Best New European Fund’ awards in 2006 and for ‘Best European Equity Fund over $500m’ in each of 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
- The AKO Global Fund was nominated for the best ‘Best New Global Fund’ in 2016 and ‘Best Global Equity Fund over $500m’ in 2017 and 2018. The AKO Global UCITS Fund was nominated for the ‘Best New Fund of the Year‘ and the ‘Best Global Equity Fund – 1 Year’ in 2017 and won the awards for ‘Best Global Equity Fund – 1 Year’ and overall ‘Fund of the Year’ at the Eurohedge Absolute UCITS awards in 2018.