Chahine Capital once again rewarded at the LSEG Lipper Fund Awards
Luxembourg, April 22th, 2025
We are delighted to announce that Digital Stars Europe Smaller Companies fund has won three LSEG Lipper Fund Awards 2025 in France, Germany and Austria. The granted awards recognize the performance of our “Momentum” equity strategy over time.
The awards are the following:
- LSEG Lipper Fund Award France 2025: Digital Stars Europe Smaller Companies Acc, “Best Fund Equity Europe Small & Mid Cap over 5 years” (out of a universe of 95 funds)
- LSEG Lipper Fund Awards Germany 2025: Digital Stars Europe Smaller Companies Acc, “Best Fund Equity Europe Small & Mid Cap over 5 years” (out of a universe of 81 funds)
- LSEG Lipper Fund Award Austria 2025: Digital Stars Europe Smaller Companies Acc, “Best Fund Equity Europe Small & Mid Cap over 5 years” (out of a universe of 60 funds)
Digital Stars Europe Smaller Companies
These awards demonstrate the relevance of our differentiating approach, and our ability to generate robust outperformance over the long term. Digital Stars Europe Smaller Companies fund, launched in December 2016, has a 5-year delivered annualised performance of +16.9%, compared with +10.6% (Acc Retail share class as of 31/03/2025) for the MSCI Europe Small Cap NR.
Our quantitative “Momentum” equity strategy consists in identifying, within very broad investment universes, companies likely to surprise the market positively and repeatedly. Portfolios are built dynamically, in line with economic cycles.
“In an environment where some are questioning active investment, the systematic, disciplined, high tracking-error approach successfully implemented by Chahine Capital’s team for over 25 years is proving its added value for long-term equity investors,” says Charles Lacroix, CEO at Chahine Capital.
A regularly awarded strategy
Digital Stars Europe Smaller Companies and Continental Europe funds have received 19 LSEG Lipper Fund Awards over the last 6 years (2019-2025), in the best fund over 3, 5 and 10-year categories.
These distinctions testify to our expertise and commitment to offering our investors high-performance strategies adapted to different market conditions.
About Chahine Capital: www.chahinecapital.com
Chahine Capital is an independent Luxembourg investment management company. Since 1998, it has been a pioneer in quantitative momentum investment applied to European and US equity strategies. Thanks to its unique approach combining research and innovation, the company is the founder of the “Digital Funds” SICAV, which for over 25 years has offered one of the best risk-adjusted performance records in the industry. Chahine Capital’s research and investment team of expert engineers develops algorithmic models with a view to continuous improvement, in order to wining at identifying the stocks that will outperform the market. Chahine Capital is a member of IRIS Finance International Group and is based in Luxembourg and Paris.
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The LSEG Lipper Fund Awards, granted annually, highlight funds and fund companies that have excelled in delivering consistently strong risk-adjusted performance relative to their peers. The LSEG Lipper Fund Awards are based on the Lipper Leader for Consistent Return rating, which is a risk-adjusted performance measure calculated over 36, 60 and 120 months. The fund with the highest Lipper Leader for Consistent Return (Effective Return) value in each eligible classification wins the LSEG Lipper Fund Award. For more information, see lipperfundawards.com. Although LSEG makes reasonable efforts to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data contained herein, their accuracy is not guaranteed by LSEG Lipper.
