--- id: 12061 title: "Architas: Best Multi-Manager Investment Solutions Global 2023" award_year: 2023 published: 2023-11-10 08:58:34 published_gmt: 2023-11-10 08:58:34 author: "CFI.co Editorial" url: "https://cfi.co/awards/finance/asset-management/2023/architas-best-multi-manager-investment-solutions-global-2023/" categories: ["Asset Management", "CSR", "Europe"] content_class: award_rationale independence_status: independent_editorial sponsor_disclosure: none editorial_lens: constructive_positive_lens historical_status: current_at_publication correction_status: none archive_policy: no_delete provenance_layer: github_versioned wayback_status: archived wayback_first_snapshot: 20231206170845 wayback_snapshot_url: "http://web.archive.org/web/20231206170845/https://cfi.co/awards/finance/asset-management/2023/architas-best-multi-manager-investment-solutions-global-2023/" license: CFI-OAAL-1.0 content_sha256: 2d5b1ab9d75f63ff7cb2f3f2e263ad22e3c7c1746aff59afdf37a2a6a89897b2 canonical: 12061-architas-best-multi-manager-investment-solutions-global-2023.json --- # Architas: Best Multi-Manager Investment Solutions Global 2023 > Verbatim archived copy. Canonical machine record: `12061-architas-best-multi-manager-investment-solutions-global-2023.json`. [video width="1920" height="1080" mp4="https://cfi.co/awards/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Architas.mp4"][/video]
Architas was founded in 2008 with £3.5bn in AUM and just 10 employees. It now forms an integral part of the AXA group, a French multinational with a presence in 51 countries and 93 million clients worldwide. As a multi-manager investment specialist, Architas helps clients across Europe and Asia to build targeted portfolios with access to lots of other single-focus underlying funds run by specialist fund managers. In other words, a fully diversified single investment solution. It also offers discretionary portfolio management for AXA entities and high-net-worth individuals. Architas partners with best-in-class fund managers across asset classes and geographies, then levers AXA’s expansive network to distribute investments at the global level. As of September 2023, Architas was overseeing €29.5bn of clients’ capital. Architas has proven resilient and stable over the past 12 months — despite recent periods of market instability and de-globalised trade. It credits the success to competent money management and a focus on sustainability. The asset manager prioritises responsible investing strategies and leads by example in terms of corporate social responsibility. It has developed a three-pillar CSR plan centred around the environment, diversity and inclusion and employee engagement. Architas aims to achieve a 25 percent reduction in its carbon footprint by 2025. Last year, Architas introduced its first SFDR Article 9 fund in the new E.P.I.C range to provide clients with more ethical and prosperous investment opportunities. The CFI.co judging panel presents Architas — a repeat programme winner — with the 2023 global award for Best Multi-Manager Investment Solutions.