This year will be the 25th Annual II Awards and the awards ceremony will once again be broadcast and premiered on Thursday October 10, 2024, for the first time on IA and well as II. Those wishing to enter will need to do so on www.investment-international.com, when the chance to enter categories goes live on Friday 12 July, 2024. 

Gary Robinson, Director of Money Map Media, the publishing company that publishes both Investment International and International Adviser, said: “We are excited to bring the II Awards 2024-25 to a wider audience for the first time on both II and IA. While we have continued to publish the two titles separately our industry events and industry awards are open to both sets of readers.

“Watch this space for the launch on Friday 12, July, 2024, as we have a couple of new categories and a couple of new awards to mark the fact that the II Awards have been out for for some 25 years.”

International Adviser will also also be separately releasing its own awards later this year with the IA Global Financial Services Awards 2024 and the IA Best Practice Awards 2024-25 (previously sponsored by Morningstar) returning in December this year.

The past two years have been a trickier period for the responsible investment industry. More challenging market conditions have affected fund performance and flows, new regulation has tested firms’ compliance departments and product development has slowed.

But for the companies that are genuinely committed to sustainable investing, and not swayed by the ebbs and flows of asset direction, it has been a time to shine.

For that reason, we are especially delighted to celebrate those organisations and individuals with the ESG Clarity Awards 2023.

This year ESG Clarity worked with Lipper to create fund shortlists across 21 categories, including actives and passives, by analysing LSEG Lipper using sustainably labelled funds based on three-year risk-adjusted returns, using LSEG Lipper data.

We also asked the sustainable investment industry to put forward nominations for our submissions categories showcasing initiatives devoted to diversity, social, thought leadership and engagement as well as celebrating individuals as ‘rising stars’ and for their outstanding contribution.

Our esteemed panel of judges then put the funds and submissions through their paces to pick their winners.

We are delighted to reveal the winners here today.

Finally, a huge thank you to everyone who nominated, our judges and sponsors and congratulations to all the winners!

Click here to see all the winners

  ESG Clarity is a sister site to International Adviser.

Now in its sixth year, we are delighted to introduce Praemium as our partner for the 2021 awards.

As with previous years, our awards are spread across UK, Europe, South Africa, Middle East and East Asia.

The deadline for entries for all regions is 30 September.

Full details can be found here.

In the video above, I speak with Mark Sanderson, managing director UK & International, to understand how Praemium views best practice, what the industry needs to do better when it comes to diversity and the one key change he believes would improve the financial advice sector.

Hosted in partnership with Old Mutual International, the winners are:

BEST PRACTICE ADVISER AWARDS Middle East 

Excellence in investment planning – Abacus Financial Consultants

Excellence in client service – Finsbury Associates

Excellence in marketing– AES International

Excellence in business strategy – Credence International

Excellence in professional development – Nexus Group

Excellence in digital innovation – Capstone Insurance Brokers

Excellence in diversity – Capstone Insurance Brokers

Best adviser support team – Finsbury Associates

Best adviser firm established under three years  – Capstone Insurance Brokers

Best adviser firm Middle East – The Fry Group

GLOBAL FINANCIAL SERVICES AWARDS 2019

International fund management group – large – Vanguard

International fund management group – small – JO Hambro

International platform – Praemium

International bank – HSBC

International private health insurer – Aetna

International retirement provider – Sovereign Group

International discretionary fund manager – Rathbones

International law firm – Clyde & Co

International financial centre of the year – DIFC

International employee benefits provider – Mercer

International life group – UK – Canada Life International

International life group – non-UK – Zurich International Life

International trust and estate planning firm – Zedra

International portfolio bond – Old Mutual International – ERB

International protection plan (life) – Friends Provident  – International Protector

International savings plan – Investor’s Trust – S&P 500

International retirement product – Momentum – SIPP

Digital proposition –Hansard International

BEST PRACTICE ADVISER AWARDS UK

Hosted in partnership with Old Mutual International, the winners are:

Excellence in investment planning – The Fry Group

Excellence in client service – Lewis Brownlee

Excellence in marketing– Lewis Brownlee

Excellence in business strategy – AES International

Excellence in professional development – BDH Sterling

Excellence in digital innovation – Aisa Financial Planning for Money Trove

Best adviser support team – Jane Smith Financial Planning

Best adviser firm established under three years  – Magenta Financial Planning

Best adviser firm UK – The Fry Group