TORONTO, Nov. 8, 2018 /CNW/ - TD Asset Management Inc. (TDAM), the manager of TD Mutual Funds, was recognized at the 2018 Thomson Reuters Lipper Awards, held last night in Toronto. The TD North American Dividend Fund (Investor Series) and TD U.S. Monthly Income Fund (Investor Series) were recognized in their respective categories. In addition, several TDAM funds, sub-advised by T. Rowe Price, received an award as the leading fund in their respective categories.

"Being recognized by Lipper is always a great honour to TDAM, and its sub-advisors, and reflects our commitment to offering a broad range of solutions to help meet the diverse needs of our investors," said Bruce Cooper, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, TDAM. "It also speaks to the strength of our team of investment professionals, all of whom are dedicated to helping deliver consistent value, stability and growth across all of our investment products."

Each of the following TD Mutual Funds were recognized for providing attractive risk-adjusted returns relative to industry peers, across one or more performance periods:

More information on the TD Mutual Funds recognized by Lipper and the entire TD Mutual Funds line-up can be found on tdassetmanagement.com

About the Lipper Fund Awards 
The Thomson Reuters Awards for Excellence recognize the world's top funds, fund management firms, sell-side firms, research analysts, and investor relations teams. The Thomson Reuters Awards for Excellence also include the Extel Survey Awards, the StarMine Analyst Awards, and the StarMine Broker Rankings. For more information, please contact markets.awards@thomsonreuters.com or visit excellence.thomsonreuters.com.

For more than three decades and in over 20 countries worldwide, the Thomson Reuters Lipper Fund Awards have honored funds and fund management firms that have excelled in providing consistently strong risk-adjusted performance relative to their peers. For more information, visit lipperfundawards.com.

The Lipper Fund Awards, granted annually, are part of the Thomson Reuters Awards for Excellence awarded by Lipper, Inc. and highlight funds that have excelled in delivering consistently strong risk-adjusted performance relative to their peers. The Lipper Fund Awards are based on the Lipper Ratings for Consistent Return, which is a risk-adjusted performance measure calculated over 36, 60 and 120 month periods. The highest 20% of funds in each category are named Lipper Leaders for Consistent Return and receive a score of 5, the next 20% receive a score of 4, the middle 20% are scored 3, the next 20% are scored 2 and the lowest 20% are scored 1. The highest Lipper Leader for Consistent Return in each category wins the Lipper Fund Award. Lipper Leader ratings change monthly. For more information, see lipperweb.com. Although Lipper makes reasonable efforts to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data contained herein, the accuracy is not guaranteed by Lipper.

About TD Asset Management Inc.
TD Asset Management (TDAM), a member of TD Bank Group, is a North American investment management firm. Operating through TD Asset Management Inc. in Canada and TDAM USA Inc. in the U.S., TDAM brings new thinking to investors' most important challenges. TDAM offers investment solutions to corporations, pension funds, endowments, foundations and individual investors. Additionally, TDAM manages assets on behalf of almost 2 million retail investors and offers a broadly diversified suite of investment solutions including mutual funds, professionally managed portfolios and corporate class funds. Asset management businesses at TD manage $391.3 billion in assets as at September 30, 2018. Assets under management include TD Asset Management Inc., TDAM USA Inc., Epoch Investment Partners Inc. (Epoch) and TD Greystone Asset Management. TD Greystone Asset Management represents Greystone Managed Investments Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Greystone Capital Management Inc. All entities are wholly-owned subsidiaries of The Toronto-Dominion Bank.

SOURCE TD Asset Management Inc.