RidgeWorth Wins 2010 STAR Award for Overall Advisor Communication

ATLANTA, Nov. 19, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- On October 21, 2010, the Mutual Fund Education Alliance (MFEA) held its 14th annual STAR Awards Banquet in Chicago.  The purpose of the awards is "to recognize the extraordinary efforts of mutual fund companies in communicating with their various constituencies and in helping investors understand and benefit from mutual funds(1)."  This year, RidgeWorth received four awards among medium-sized mutual fund families(2), including the "Overall Advisor Communication Award."  

"It is certainly an honor to be recognized by peers for our efforts to provide advisors with thought leadership in a way that they would like to receive it," said David Craig, Director of Marketing for RidgeWorth Investments.  "These awards are a true reflection of RidgeWorth's basic value proposition of 'individual insight.'  We would not have won without the contribution and expertise of a range of specialized groups within the RidgeWorth family, including the boutiques' investment professionals, the portfolio analytics group, the compliance team and the sales team."

In addition to the Overall award, RidgeWorth won in the following categories:

Online Advisor Services – Practice Management Suite designed to improve advisor efficiency

Online Innovation – Custom RSS to allow personalization of information flow from the website

Printed Communications – Addmidcap campaign to demonstrate the value of mid-cap investing

1 Source: MFEA

2 Defined as between $5 - $35 billion in long-term assets (non-money market fund).

About RidgeWorth Investments

RidgeWorth Investments serves as a holding company that owns interests in eight investment boutiques with approximately $52.5 billion of assets under management as of September 30, 2010*. RidgeWorth's investment boutiques manage a wide variety of investment disciplines across the fixed income, equity, and liquidity management asset classes. Our boutiques provide investment management services to a growing client base that includes endowments, foundations, corporations, healthcare organizations, municipalities, public funds, associations, insurance companies, labor unions and high net worth individuals. In addition, RidgeWorth serves as the investment adviser to the RidgeWorth Funds mutual fund family. RidgeWorth Investments is a trade name for RidgeWorth Capital Management, Inc., an investment adviser registered with the SEC headquartered in Atlanta. For more information about RidgeWorth, visit www.ridgeworth.com.

An investor should consider the fund's investment objectives, risks, and charges and expenses carefully before investing or sending money. This and other important information about the RidgeWorth Funds can be found in the fund's prospectus. To obtain a prospectus, please call 888-784-3863 or visit www.ridgeworth.com. Please read the prospectus carefully before investing. Mutual fund investing involves risk, including possible loss of principal.

® 2010 RidgeWorth Investments. RidgeWorth Investments is the trade name for RidgeWorth Capital Management, Inc., an investment advisor registered with the SEC and the adviser to the RidgeWorth Funds. RidgeWorth Funds are distributed by RidgeWorth Distributors LLC, which is not affiliated with the adviser.

*As of 9/30/10. RidgeWorth's subsidiaries have in the aggregate $52.5 billion in assets under management. This amount includes some duplication, in amounts viewed as immaterial by RidgeWorth, due to inclusion of certain amounts managed jointly by multiple subsidiaries. In July 2010 StableRiver announced a strategic decision to no longer manage money market funds. By year-end, approximately $7 billion in additional assets invested in money market mutual funds managed by StableRiver will transition to the money market funds of another asset management firm.

SOURCE RidgeWorth Investments