On January 31 approximately 200 participants from the Swiss and international fund industries celebrated the twenty-eighth annual Lipper Fund Awards for Switzerland, held in the prestigious AURA Festsaal in Zurich. This awards event is the kick-off every year for Lipper’s global awards program. Since the event also marks the beginning of the annual Swiss awards season, it gets a lot of attention from the asset management industry as well as from the media. The speakers at the event were Thilo Schreyer, Business Manager Switzerland and Liechtenstein at Thomson Reuters; Jan Giller, Partner and Head of Marketing and Sales at Fundinfo;