Friends of AIMSE Award

On Thursday, September 23rd, Niels Andersen, AIMSE President, and Tim McAvoy, AIMSE President Emeritus, presented the first 'Friends of AIMSE' Award to Keith McDowell. This newly created award was presented during the AIMSE 2010 Fall Conference in New York City, where over 150 investment professionals gave an extended standing ovation to honor Keith's achievement.

The 'Friends of AIMSE' award recognizes an individual who has been engaged in and spent a significant amount of time in business activities related to providing educational services and/or information to enhance and promote the profession of investment marketing and sales. This individual must also have at least 10 years of experience in the institutional money management industry and demonstrated outstanding achievement in providing these goods or services.

Keith McDowell entered into the business with A.G. Becker's Funds Evaluation Group in 1974 and then served as a plan sponsor consultant in Chicago from 1977-1986. He was then promoted to Senior Vice President of Professional Development in 1987, with a focus on sales and presentation training.

Keith started his own business, McDowell Consulting, January 1999 and has attended AIMSE events going back to his first AIMSE Annual Conference in 1987. In 2010, Keith attended his 24th AIMSE conference and has served as a moderator on many AIMSE panels and a friend/mentor to even more AIMSE investment professionals.

On behalf of AIMSE, we thank Keith for his dedication to the institutional money management business and even more so to his unswerving commitment to AIMSE.

Friends of AIMSE Award Criteria:

• The individual must be regularly engaged in and devote a significant portion of his/her time to business activities directly relating to or involving the provision of goods and educational information and services to further enhance and promote the profession of investment management marketing and sales.
• The individual must have ten years of industry experience.
• The individual should have demonstrated outstanding achievement in providing goods and educational information and services to investment management marketing and sales executives over a period of time, not just for a single year.
• The individual should have made some significant contribution(s) to society outside of the investment management industry.
• The individual must be a recognized leader within his/her organization or within their field of endeavor.