The awards dinner hosted a live auction and raffle to benefit Mutual Funds Against Cancer, which raised more than $130,000 in support of the Center for Applied Cancer Science (CACS), part of the Belfer Institute for Innovative Cancer Science at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Video coverage of the awards ceremony as well as interviews with some of this year's Rising Stars and award nominees, including Keith Hartstein, CEO & President, John Hancock and Ralph Eucher, President, Principal Funds, are available from EMII.com.

FUND ACTION WINNERS! Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Jim Hawkes, retired ceo and chairman of Eaton Vance Fund Leader of the Year Larry Fink, ceo, BlackRock Deal of the Year Madison Dearborn Partners' buyout of Nuveen Investments Fund Marketer of the Year Richard Chambers, head of marketing, JP Morgan Funds Advertising Campaign of the Year Fidelity Investments Sales Success of the Year Michael Mach, Judy Sarayan, Walter Row and Michael Allison, portfolio managers, and Bill Gillen, national sales director, Eaton Vance's Tax-Managed Global Diversified Equity Income Fund SMA Player of the Year Jim Tracy, head of advisory services and consulting, Smith Barney

FUND DIRECTIONS WINNERS! Lifetime Achievement Award Winner James Bodurtha, independent director, BlackRock Trustee of the Year Michael Scofield, independent chair, Evergreen Funds Small Board Trustee of the Year Julian Reid, independent chair, The Korea Fund Independent Counsel of the Year Paul Dykstra & Paulita Pike, partners, Bell Boyd & Lloyd OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT WINNER! Best Post-Trade Technology Implementation O'Shaughnessy Asset Management, total back-office outsourcing

For information on attending or sponsoring on next year's awards dinner, please contact Tracey Redmond, Awards Director, at 212-224-3239, tredmond@iievents.com.