MFDF Board Chair Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

The Mutual Fund Directors Forum announced that Jameson A. Baxter, Chair of the Forum’s Board and the Independent Chair of the Putnam Funds, received the Fund Directions Lifetime Achievement Award at the 24^th annual Mutual Fund Industry Awards last week in New York. Ms. Baxter has been a member of the Forum’s Board since 2005 and the Chair since 2010. “I have had the privilege of working alongside Jamie since 2006 and have seen firsthand her dedication to the fund industry, her peers, and the role of effective independent mutual fund governance,” said Susan Ferris Wyderko, President and CEO of the Mutual Fund Directors Forum. “I can think of no one more deserving for this honor, and we could not be more pleased to have someone of this caliber chairing our organization.”