México D.F., February 28 2014 - SURA México is pleased to announce that last night, the investment fund management firm, SURA Investment Management México won the prize for Best Multi-Asset Fund Manager in Mexico at the Morningstar Prize-Giving Ceremony. Press release issued by Sura Mexico.

For several years now, the Morningstar awards have been recognizing the best investment and fund management firms in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. This is the second time that these awards have included Mexico´s own local investment and fund management firms.

This year´s prize-winners were assessed by this well-recognized investment research firm so as to be able to help investors identify the best investment and fund management firms based on sound risk-adjusted returns both for 2013 as well as the last three years.

Mr. Luis Ortiz, General Manager of SURA Investment Management México stated: "We are proud to have won this award since it represents how Sura´s experience, track-record and best practices have worked for the benefit of our institutional and individual clients alike, for whom we have always strived to provide the highest returns based on a constantly sound level of risk management, and in doing so offer them the best alternatives for handling their investments".

This award reasserts Sura´s firm commitment to its Mexican investors offering them top-quality, innovative products that provide the best returns along with personalized attention and optimum client service.

Besides managing more than MXN 39,100 million in assets belonging to both individual and institutional clients as part of its investment fund business, SURA also offers retirement fund (afore in Spanish) as well as life insurance and pension services in Mexico .

About Grupo SURA

Grupo de Inversiones Suramericana -GRUPO SURA- is a Multi-latina holding listed on the Colombian Stock Exchange and registered with the ADR- Level 1 program in the United States. . We are also the only Latin American corporation from the miscellaneous financial service sector to be admitted to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), which monitors companies who have become global benchmarks thanks to the good practices they have adopted from the economic, environmental and social standpoints. GRUPO SURA holds core strategic investments in the banking, insurance, retirement pension, savings and investment sectors, along with portfolio investments in the cement, energy and processed food sectors.

About SURA ASSET MANAGEMENT

SURA Asset Management is a Latin American Pension, Savings and Investment Fund Management firm in Mexico, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay and El Salvador. It is a subsidiary of Grupo SURA, besides having six co-investors each holding a minority stake: Corporación Financiera Internacional (IFC), member of the World Bank Group, Grupo Bolívar, Bancolombia, the International Equity Firm, General Atlantic, JP Morgan and the Wiese Group. At September 2013, SURA Asset Management held a total of USD 111.3 billion in assets under management belonging to 16.6 million clients.

About SURA in México

SURA´s portfolio of businesses in Mexico includes Afore SURA, Pensiones SURA and SURA Investment Management. At September 2013, it managed more than MXN 329 billion with a little over 3,500 employees and more than 6 million clients.

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