What You Must Know
- The popularity program will settle for nominations by July 17, with no value to take part.
- 4 new awards classes have been launched.
- The awards program is now open to gamers in additional segments of the monetary companies trade.
ThinkAdvisor’s pioneering recognition program — the Luminaries — is at the moment accepting nominations for our expanded listing of 2024 awards, which are actually open to extra segments of the monetary companies trade.
In its fourth yr, the Luminaries awards will rejoice the achievements of high advisors, trade executives, RIAs, broker-dealers, asset and funding managers, expertise suppliers and different monetary companies companies within the following classes:
- Excellence in Advertising/PR Awards (Corporations) — New
- Trade Disruption (Corporations) — New
- M&A Leaders (People with RIA Corporations) — New
- Subsequent-Gen Rising Stars (People) — New
- Company Social Accountability (Corporations)
- Govt Management (People)
- Innovation (Corporations)
- Luminaries With Coronary heart (People)
- Thought Management and Training (Corporations/People)
Nominations for 2024 Luminaries awards are being accepted on-line by July 17, and there’s no value to take part. Finalists can be introduced this summer time, and winners can be honored on stage at Dec. 11 on the Fontainebleau Las Vegas.
The 2024 Luminaries awards program options expanded recognition for monetary service suppliers, corresponding to insurance coverage and retirement product companies, actual property funding companies, RIA help platforms, household places of work and wholesalers.
As well as, fims that supply advisor help companies — in areas like compliance, commerce conferences, advertising/PR, recruiting, analysis and belief — can be honored, together with extra kinds of expertise suppliers.
“By prioritizing the popularity of achievements that transcend development statistics and product recognition, the ThinkAdvisor Luminaries Awards program units a brand new commonplace for excellence within the monetary companies 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 at this time and tomorrow.
We may also 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. Relatively, our awards and protection of the winners will inform the tales of how top-performing trade contributors are producing significant leads to the areas that matter most to advisors.
The awards honor trade gamers that “aspire to higher heights of management, creativity and impression [through] a tradition of steady enchancment and encourage the trade to embrace innovation and visionary considering as important parts 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 Accountability Awards (Corporations): On this class, previously referred to as Neighborhood Impression, we acknowledge companies which have proven exemplary dedication to philanthropy; variety, fairness and inclusion (DEI); environmental stewardship and different impactful initiatives.
- Excellence in Advertising/PR Awards (Corporations) — New: Celebrating the ingenuity and impression of digital campaigns, instructional packages, public relations and social media campaigns that drive advisor development and long-term success.
- Govt Management Awards (People): Honoring people who’ve demonstrated distinctive management, shopper service and innovation, serving as function fashions of trade excellence.
- Trade Disruption Awards (Corporations) — New: Highlighting companies which have reshaped current markets or pioneered totally new segments by revolutionary methods, applied sciences, or enterprise fashions.
- Innovation Awards (Corporations): Recognizing organizations which have demonstrated distinctive creativity and ahead considering by distinctive shopper packages or revolutionary approaches.
- Luminaries With Coronary heart Awards (People): On this class, previously referred to as Neighborhood Impression, we rejoice 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 Corporations) — New: Recognizing leaders in mergers and acquisitions throughout 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 revolutionary packages, services or products, driving excellent outcomes and shaping the way forward for the trade.
- Thought Management & Training Award (Corporations): Acknowledging companies which have superior and broadly shared new considering and analysis in monetary planning, retirement and associated advisory companies.
- 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 concerning the Luminaries nominations course of to [email protected]; for assist with the awards portal, write to [email protected].
(Credit score: Chris Nicholls/ALM)