What You Have to Know
- The popularity program will settle for nominations by way of July 17, with no price to take part.
- 4 new awards classes have been launched.
- The awards program is now open to gamers in additional segments of the monetary providers trade.
ThinkAdvisor’s pioneering recognition program — the Luminaries — is presently accepting nominations for our expanded listing of 2024 awards, which are actually open to extra segments of the monetary providers trade.
In its fourth yr, the Luminaries awards will have a good time the achievements of high advisors, trade executives, RIAs, broker-dealers, asset and funding managers, expertise suppliers and different monetary providers companies within the following classes:
- Excellence in Advertising and marketing/PR Awards (Companies) — New
- Business Disruption (Companies) — New
- M&A Leaders (People with RIA Companies) — New
- Subsequent-Gen Rising Stars (People) — New
- Company Social Duty (Companies)
- Government Management (People)
- Innovation (Companies)
- Luminaries With Coronary heart (People)
- Thought Management and Schooling (Companies/People)
Nominations for 2024 Luminaries awards are being accepted on-line by way of July 17, and there’s no price to take part. Finalists will probably be introduced this summer season, and winners will probably be honored on stage at Dec. 11 on the Fontainebleau Las Vegas.
The 2024 Luminaries awards program options expanded recognition for monetary service suppliers, equivalent to insurance coverage and retirement product companies, actual property funding companies, RIA help platforms, household workplaces and wholesalers.
As well as, fims that provide advisor help providers — in areas like compliance, commerce conferences, advertising/PR, recruiting, analysis and belief — will probably be honored, together with extra kinds of expertise suppliers.
“By prioritizing the popularity of achievements that transcend progress statistics and product reputation, the ThinkAdvisor Luminaries Awards program units a brand new normal for excellence within the monetary providers sector,” mentioned Scott Thompson, SVP Market Technique and Occasions at ALM.
The Program’s Focus
As in 2021, 2022 and 2023, the 2024 program and its associated protection will shine a highlight on the quantitative and qualitative impacts that ThinkAdvisor Luminaries are making on the trade, for the advisors of immediately and tomorrow.
We will even spotlight the daring steps the winners are taking to drive the wealth, funding and retirement trade ahead in additional dynamic and inclusive methods.
This system will not be meant to emphasise asset ranges or rankings — or the newest trade buzz. Slightly, our awards and protection of the winners will inform the tales of how top-performing trade individuals are producing significant ends in the areas that matter most to advisors.
The awards honor trade gamers that “aspire to larger heights of management, creativity and affect [through] a tradition of steady enchancment and encourage the trade to embrace innovation and visionary pondering as important elements of success,” Thompson defined.
“ThinkAdvisor Luminaries Awards are … symbols of the trade’s collective dedication to pushing boundaries, driving constructive change and shaping a brighter future for all,” he added.
Particulars on the Award Classes
The factors of the award classes that our judges will use to judge nominations in 2024 are as follows:
- Company Social Duty Awards (Companies): On this class, previously referred to as Neighborhood Influence, we acknowledge companies which have proven exemplary dedication to philanthropy; variety, fairness and inclusion (DEI); environmental stewardship and different impactful initiatives.
- Excellence in Advertising and marketing/PR Awards (Companies) — New: Celebrating the ingenuity and affect of digital campaigns, academic packages, public relations and social media campaigns that drive advisor progress and long-term success.
- Government Management Awards (People): Honoring people who’ve demonstrated distinctive management, shopper service and innovation, serving as function fashions of trade excellence.
- Business Disruption Awards (Companies) — New: Highlighting companies which have reshaped present markets or pioneered solely new segments by way of modern methods, applied sciences, or enterprise fashions.
- Innovation Awards (Companies): Recognizing organizations which have demonstrated distinctive creativity and ahead pondering by way of distinctive shopper packages or modern approaches.
- Luminaries With Coronary heart Awards (People): On this class, previously referred to as Neighborhood Influence, we have a good time people who’ve made important contributions in philanthropy, company social duty, DEI, ESG, or different impactful endeavors, positively influencing communities on native, nationwide and world scales.
- M&A Leaders Awards (People at RIA Companies) — New: Recognizing leaders in mergers and acquisitions inside the RIA sector for his or her transformative contributions to the trade panorama.
- Subsequent-Gen Rising Stars Awards (People) — New: Shining a highlight on people who’ve made outstanding contributions to their organizations by way of modern packages, services or products, driving excellent outcomes and shaping the way forward for the trade.
- Thought Management & Schooling Award (Companies): Acknowledging companies which have superior and broadly shared new pondering and analysis in monetary planning, retirement and associated advisory providers.
- Thought Management Awards (People): Recognizing people who’ve led their companies in pioneering new frameworks and approaches that redefine excellence and achievement of their respective areas.
Please ship any questions in regards to the Luminaries nominations course of to [email protected]; for assist with the awards portal, write to [email protected].
(Credit score: Chris Nicholls/ALM)
