Quantitative specialist fund manager Axa Rosenberg was named European asset manager of the year at last night's Financial News Excellence in Institutional Asset Management awards.

Still led by its pioneering founder Barr Rosenberg, the asset manager has offered consistent outperformance and is recognized for the meticulous attention paid to its processes, with the Barr Rosenberg Research Center responsible for creating and supporting the equity technologies for all of the group's products.