Some 45 fund managers have made it into the 2016 FE Hall of Fame, with 28 achieving the highly coveted FE Alpha Manager rating eight years in a row.
This prestigious accolade is handed to managers who have achieved the FE Alpha Manager award in at least seven different years, with the researchers at FE looking at managers' track records since 2000.
The Hall of Fame was first introduced last year and will be published on an annual basis.
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The rating is based on three components: risk-adjusted alpha; consistency of outperformance versus the benchmark; and outperformance in both up and down markets, with extra weighting given to managers with the longest track records.
This year's annual Hall of Fame (full list, below) includes long-standing emerging markets experts Angus Tulloch and Martin Lau, UK equity income manager Neil Woodford, and Mark Slater, manager of the £332m MFM Slater Growth and the £32m MFM Slater Recovery funds.
The list also includes M&G's bond veteran Richard Woolnough, Schroders' Andy Brough and Jenny Jones, and Standard Life Investments' Harry Nimmo.
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Mika-John Southworth, director at FE, said: "The Alpha Manager Hall of Fame recognises the managers that have been in the top 2.5% of their peergroup, consistently, for the last seven years.
"Over that period, we have seen the financial markets collapse, communication technologies advance and passive investing become mainstream. We have had swings and u-turns in government policy, monumental shake-ups in regulation and a lot of pain in store for the commodity markets.
"Our Hall of Fame managers have been able to take all of these factors in their strides, staying true to their strategies and not being distracted by short-term market noise. They are a real testament to the power of conviction."
Overall, this year 189 fund managers were awarded an FE Alpha Manager rating, with 47 of them achieving the accolade for the first time; 12 women were named FE Alpha Managers.
