What You Must Know
- The popularity program will settle for nominations by 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 at the moment accepting nominations for our expanded record of 2024 awards, which are actually open to extra segments of the monetary providers trade.
In its fourth yr, the Luminaries awards will have fun the achievements of high advisors, trade executives, RIAs, broker-dealers, asset and funding managers, know-how suppliers and different monetary providers corporations within the following classes:
- Excellence in Advertising/PR Awards (Companies) — New
- Trade Disruption (Companies) — New
- M&A Leaders (People with RIA Companies) — New
- Subsequent-Gen Rising Stars (People) — New
- Company Social Accountability (Companies)
- Govt Management (People)
- Innovation (Companies)
- Luminaries With Coronary heart (People)
- Thought Management and Training (Companies/People)
Nominations for 2024 Luminaries awards are being accepted on-line by July 17, and there’s no price to take part. Finalists will probably be introduced this summer time, 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, akin to insurance coverage and retirement product corporations, actual property funding corporations, RIA assist platforms, household places of work and wholesalers.
As well as, fims that supply advisor assist providers — in areas like compliance, commerce conferences, advertising and marketing/PR, recruiting, analysis and belief — will probably be honored, together with extra varieties of know-how suppliers.
“By prioritizing the popularity of achievements that transcend development statistics and product reputation, the ThinkAdvisor Luminaries Awards program units a brand new customary for excellence within the monetary providers sector,” stated 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 right now and tomorrow.
We may 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. Reasonably, our awards and protection of the winners will inform the tales of how top-performing trade individuals 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 influence [through] a tradition of steady enchancment and encourage the trade to embrace innovation and visionary pondering 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 guage nominations in 2024 are as follows:
- Company Social Accountability Awards (Companies): On this class, previously referred to as Group Influence, we acknowledge corporations which have proven exemplary dedication to philanthropy; range, fairness and inclusion (DEI); environmental stewardship and different impactful initiatives.
- Excellence in Advertising/PR Awards (Companies) — New: Celebrating the ingenuity and influence of digital campaigns, academic applications, 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 position fashions of trade excellence.
- Trade Disruption Awards (Companies) — New: Highlighting corporations which have reshaped current markets or pioneered solely new segments by progressive methods, applied sciences, or enterprise fashions.
- Innovation Awards (Companies): Recognizing organizations which have demonstrated distinctive creativity and ahead pondering by distinctive shopper applications or progressive approaches.
- Luminaries With Coronary heart Awards (People): On this class, previously referred to as Group Influence, we have fun people who’ve made important contributions in philanthropy, company social accountability, 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 exceptional contributions to their organizations by progressive applications, services or products, driving excellent outcomes and shaping the way forward for the trade.
- Thought Management & Training Award (Companies): Acknowledging corporations 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 corporations 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)