> ARTICO PARTNERS: BEST QUANTITATIVE EQUITY ASSET MANAGEMENT TEAM SWITZERLAND 2018
For the asset managers at ARTICO Partners, it’s not about being the biggest – it’s about being the best. There are six partners on the company roster, an agile team of senior-level professionals with impressive performance histories. The partners are significant co-investors in all of their funds. This means they have "skin in the game" ensuring that their interests are fully aligned with those of their investors. The investment approach is simple and compelling: invest in good companies. ARTICO has developed a selection process to identify
companies with outstanding characteristics. The partners start with ARTICO’s proprietary database, containing over 25 years of data on more than 30,000 companies across the world. The firm then applies its methodology to assess the companies based on their growth rate, profitability, financial health, and stock market evaluation. Only companies with high scores across all four criteria are selected, creating diversified portfolios of sound, global companies, with a higher probability to outperform. It is exactly this combination of
strong fundamental characteristics that makes ARTICO's portfolios unique. ARTICO manages three funds with the same systematic approach covering Emerging Markets, Global Small Caps and Developed Markets. In addition, ARTICO also offers risk-mitigated funds, to preserve client's capital across a range of scenarios. In recognition of its exemplary approach to investment, the CFI.co judging panel presents ARTICO Partners with the 2018 award for Best Quantitative Equity Asset Management Team (Switzerland).
> ROSABON FINANCIAL SERVICES: BEST SOCIAL IMPACT FINANCIAL SERVICES NIGERIA 2018
Lending drives the development of industries and economies, and the progressive and modern nonbanking institution of Nigeria, Rosabon Financial Services, is ready to help fund the mission. The financial products developed by Rosabon are fine-tuned to the demands of its clientele, and constantly updated to reflect evolving needs. The institution offers collateralised and non-collateralised loans, investment plans, and leasing services. Rosabon garnered the attention of the CFI.co judging panel in 2015 for its ethical business practices and peak corporate performance, and the institution has
since made strides to become an even more socially oriented organisation. Passionate about education, Rosabon sponsors pupils from lowincome families with school supplies each year. Furthermore, the Rosabon Educational Support Initiative partners with primary, secondary, and tertiary schools to offer low-interest tuition loans that enable parents to tackle private education in comfortable monthly payments rather than a large lump sum. Rosabon partnerships open avenues of capital flow in the travel sector, real estate market, and medical industry. Rosabon's Medical Equipment Leasing
Initiative addresses healthcare concerns and covers a gap in the market, financing the procurement of crucial medical equipment for hospitals and medical facilities. Regulated by the Central Bank of Nigeria and a member of the Equipment Leasing Association of Nigeria (ELAN), Rosabon offers a gamut of products that promote financial inclusion and encourage consumer and corporate investment, leading the CFI.co judging panel to name Rosabon Financial Services winner of the 2018 Best Social Impact Financial Services (Nigeria) award.
> MANSION (GIBRALTAR) LIMITED: MOST RESPONSIBLE ONLINE GAMBLING OPERATOR GLOBAL 2018
People around the world love sports and games, and Mansion offers both in one convenient, trusted online platform. The platform integrates products from top gaming providers on its three online casino sites — Casino.com, MansionCasino, and Slots Heaven — and one sports betting site called MansionBet. Mansion is licensed and headquartered in Gibraltar, the British territory at the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula and a major financial centre and global 96
e-commerce hub of the past years. Under the leadership of CEO Karel Manasco since 2016, the company has experienced remarkable commercial success, with 100 percent revenue growth and up to 200 percent profit increase, but this is only part of Mansion’s success story. The company encourages responsible gambling amongst its members, and provides controls to protect underage users, sets special limits on gaming activity, and can request a temporary CFI.co | Capital Finance International
cooling off period. The next step in Mansion’s long term vision will see new opportunities in other global licensed markets. The CFI.co judging panel was impressed with the CEO’s notion that success comes with responsibility, and cites the company’s dedication to exceeding current regulations as further proof that Mansion Limited be named the 2018 winner of the Most Responsible Online Gambling Operator (Global) award.