2024 CATEGORIES

This award is designed to recognise the financial services companies that have excelled in the international and/or UK Employee Benefits Solutions marketplace.

This new award is to recognise accountancy firms, particularly those working across different international jurisdictions that have excelled in their field in the last 12 months.

This new award is designed to recognise the international law company or firm that particularly excels in its field. 

This is the age of the green investment. Environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) values are permeating every sector of the industry, and on every continent. ESG is a permanent and mainstream feature of international finance. II is looking forward to championing the very best this nascent sector has to offer.

Family offices today play an increasingly important role in wealth management globally. This award seeks to recognise excellence in this growing sector of the asset management world.

This award is designed to recognise innovation within the growing sector of financial technology companies, ie innovations, new launches or new products within the Insurtech, and general Fintech world.

Open to discretionary fund managers offering services on an international basis. The panel will take into account the growth of business, and range of products and services offered, including levels of service, use of technology and recent enhancements.

Open to international finance centres. In judging the panel will take into account enabling legislation, involvement at local and international level, future growth prospects and initiatives.

Open to fund groups offering an offshore range available in the UK. Fund groups will be subject to an initial performance check by Morningstar. See Methodology for further information of criteria.

Open to life groups that provide products and services to those in the non-UK market. The panel will take into account growth of the business, range of products, support to target markets, level of service, technology, recent product enhancements, involvement at industry level.

Open to life groups that provide products and services to those in the UK market. The panel will take into account growth of the business, range of products, support to target markets, level of service, technology, recent product enhancements, involvement at industry level.

Open to groups that offer international pension plans to individuals working and living abroad. In judging, the panel will focus on suitability, target market, benefits, service, technology and recent enhancements.

Open to providers of platforms serving and supporting financial advisers, banks, wealth managers, life groups and discretionary fund managers.

Open to groups that provide offshore or international portfolio bond products cross-border. The panel will take into account suitability of product, target markets, product benefits and recent enhancements.

Open to groups that provide general savings plans that offer international investment solutions. The panel will take into account suitability to target market, product benefits and any recent enhancements.

Open to groups that provide international trust products. The panel will take into account product launch, suitability, target market, product benefits and recent enhancements.

The award is designed to recognise the international financial services companies that have excelled in the international private medical insurance sector, protection or critical illness sector. Award/s for both adviser/broker or general industry.

This award is designed to honor the work of a company or an individual within from the adviser community (ie international IFA, advisory firm or broker) or industry (i.e. life, investment or professional financial services company or a jurisdiction) that has contributed towards helping accelerate the pace of change towards a more diverse and inclusive international financial services industry. We hope you will take this opportunity to either nominate yourself or a valued colleague for these awards and we look forward to revealing our finalists and winners later in the year.

Open all persons under the age of 40 (as at the time of the nomination) in the international financial services industry or the adviser community (ie international IFA, advisory firm or broker) or industry (i.e. life, investment or professional financial services company or a jurisdiction). Nominees will be judged against factors such as professional development, outstanding customer service levels and instances of excellent teamwork or leadership in their chosen field. This award is determined by a combination of judges votes and readers votes.

Open to all European fund selectors. Nominees will also be judged against factors including their proven ability to deliver excellence in portfolio construction, ongoing service levels to clients, along with their own professional development and adoption of clear, sustainable business models in their ongoing role. Selection is also based on European fund selector market data.

This category is intended to recognise wealth management/financial advisory firms located in and/or operating in any region of the world, which have not only adopted best practices on behalf of their clients, but have gone the extra mile to put in place practices that serve as a beacon for others looking to improve their own businesses.

Open to international citizenship service and product providers or advisers (or jurisdictions) offering citizenship products and services on an international basis. This award is designed to recognise excellence in the increasingly popular cross-border citizenship services and products and services marketplace. This award is determined by a combination of judges votes including a specially-selected adviser panel.

Regional awards to acknowledge exceptional client service in the international financial services industry or the adviser community (ie international IFA, advisory firm or broker) or industry (i.e. life, investment or professional financial services company or a jurisdiction). An overall global winner will also be selected. This award is determined by a combination of judges votes and readers votes.

The award is designed to recognise the financial companies that have excelled in the sector of financial technology in the international financial services industry or the adviser community (ie international IFA, advisory firm or broker) or industry (i.e. life, investment or professional financial services company or a jurisdiction).

Open to international finance centres. In judging the panel will take into account innovation within financial centres. An example may be encouraging growth in new markets with new and innovative creative campaigns or creation of innovative new products, services within that jurisdiction that stand out etc.

Open to all wealth management companies offering private banking services and products. This award is intended to recognize service levels that go above and beyond the norm.

Entries are welcomed from financial advice or financial servcies companies that are delivering services or products to their clients that are operating in the ESG marketplace. Can also be awarded to a firm, jurisdication or individual that is excelling in ensuring that its practices are of the highest standards ensuring that sustainability and ESG are undertaken.

The award is designed to recognise the international financial services companies that have excelled in the Trust and Estate planning sectors.

A category to recognise excellence in marketing. The award will be given to a single campaign that the judges find particularly striking and innovative, from any financial services company, jurisdication or advisory firm worldwide.

Open to international discretionary fund managers offering products and services on an international basis. This award is designed to recognise excellence in DFM funds, portfolio construction and other products and services offered. This award is determined by a combination of judges votes including a specially-selected adviser panel.

Open to all persons in the international financial services industry or cross-border financial advice industry. Nominees will be judged against factors including their proven ability to deliver exceptional service levels to clients, and deliver improved service levels over time, along with their own professional development. And, if appropriate, how their leadership has helped move their business forward. This award is determined by a combination of judges votes and readers votes.

Open to all persons in the cross-border financial advice industry or the general cross-border financial services industry, the award is designed to honour those that go above and beyond in their role and are rarely recognised at awards. Can be in any role within the company. Nominees can be self-submitted or submitted on behalf of someone else. This award is determined by a combination of judges votes and readers votes.

Open to groups that provide life assurance protection plans. The panel will take into account suitability of product to target market, product benefits and recent enhancements.

Open to groups that offer international pension products to the UK and/or the Ex-UK market. In judging, the panel will focus on the company's expertise in pensons, target market, benefits, service, technology and recent enhancements.

This award is designed to recognise the financial services companies (advisers or industry) that have generally excelled across all areas of operation ie leadership, innovation, business practices, client service, sustainability, employee satisfaction. This award is determined by a combination of judges votes and readers votes.

This one-off award is open to individuals, companies or jurisdictions that have stood out and excelled in the international financial services industry across the last 25 years. This award is not a designed as a lifetime acheivement award and can be won by any individual, company or jurisdiction that has been operating in the industry for a period of longer than five years