These special awards for excellence are unique in the industry with IA’s global financial advisers, brokers and wealth managers choosing the companies that will be shortlisted and eligible to win these prestigious awards.

IA readers be surveyed and asked to list the companies that they believe should be shortlisted in Global Financial Services Awards. They will be asked to nominate the companies that have excelled across the last 12 months in a series of categories across cross-border products, services and funds. The nominated firms and companies will then be shortlisted with a final judging and voting process deciding on 2025’s winners and highly commended being announced at a special global premiere and VIP ceremony in April, 2025.

IA Editorial Director, Mark Battersby, pictured left, said: “We are delighted to continue with the IA Global Financial Services Awards into 2025. These awards are unique in the respect that companies cannot apply unless they have been nominated by our readers within advisers, brokers or wealth management firms. These firms across the globe pick the companies that they believe should be shortlisted for excellence in the last 12 months, giving additional gravitas to those that are finalists”

“When myself and Gary Robinson co-owner of Money Map Media – the publisher of both IA and Investment International (II), purchased the IA brand last year ensuring these long running awards were revamped and given the prominence that they deserve was among the key drivers in our plans. So it is great to see them re-launched tomorrow, with a few additional categories to ensure that excellence in the global financial services industry continues to be properly recognised

IA can also reveal the return of the IA Best Practice Awards 2025 – which will be open for entries at the end of January, 2025, and, later in the year, the IA 100 2025 which will be released online and in print later this year.

The two flagship Awards and the IA 100 are part of a return to prominence for IA, alongside a series of new initiatives for both advisers and product providers, fund houses and services providers on the IA website and via special reports that will be released in coming weeks and months.

Tune into IA soon for the full list of categories for the IA Global Financial Services Awards 2025 with voting links for the advisory community to nominate with going live at the same time.

Myself (Gary Robinson) and Mark Battersby my colleague and co-founder of G&M Media Ltd – as co-owners of II, IA and our publishing division Money Map Media – could not be more excited for 2025. In the coming weeks and months our exciting plans for both II and IA will be fully unfurled, so please keep tuning in for these exciting developments.

Both brands have had more than 20 years of providing news, views, events, videos, awards, special reports, surveys and features from across the international financial services marketplace and this will continue into the future with a renewed energy and vigour. In the past II and IA were two titles that had been seen as competing within the international cross-border advice and wealth management space, until we brought both brands under one roof in 2024 and produced more complementary work.

New Year, new initiatives

We are pleased to say that this complimentary work will continue but within a more defined new framework for both brands with fresh new content, projects and initiatives and the return of some old favourites (particularly on International Adviser) to get excited for.

We hope you enjoyed your festive break and we can’t wait to share our full vision for 2025 and beyond in the coming weeks and months.

Among the highlights we share a few snippets from Investment International and International Adviser events in 2024 featuring our II Latin America Forum 2024 in Montevideo, Uruguay our II Awards 2024 VIP screening in London, our UK and European flagship event II Connect 2024 in London and our II Middle East Forum 2024 event in Dubai.

We also feature a number of our video interview highlights taken from interviews with some of the industry’s biggest names, throughout the year including the Fourth Annual II Leadership Forum 2024 which was beamed from our TV studio to our global audience

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We look forward to bringing you more great events, videos and podcasts from our team at Investment International and our sister title International Adviser into 2025 and beyond.

Being the biggest awards in the international cross-border industry, the II Awards is simultaneously premiered and screened across the globe so all global winners and highly commended can experience the event in different nations and across continents at the same time. Highlighted in the video is II’s now annual special VIP screening event which is held at Browns in Covent Garden, London for select audience of II and IA sponsors, II Awards staff and judges and VIP guests.

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In this interview – conducted by IA and II Publisher Gary Robinson and filmed in the company’s Dublin headquarters at the end of November 2024 – Conroy talks about the company’s Circular Economy Strategy as it approaches its three year mark since launch. He also looks back on 2024 and gives some insight into how he has set up for 2025 and what he believes is set to unfold.

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