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The Institutional Asset Management Awards is a unique assessment program designed to honour and celebrate the world’s preeminent asset managers who play a vital role in helping insurance companies by expertly managing portfolios and deploying appropriate investment strategies to realise desired risk-adjusted returns in line with insurer mandates.

Fundamentally, this awards program has been established to recognize the institutional excellence and fund performance of the most forward-looking and progressive asset managers that are orchestrating sustained portfolio growth enabling insurers to attain their long-term financial goals. These institutional asset managers are also instrumental in ensuring that their insurance clients have access to a range of fund offerings, asset classes and markets, reinforced by best-in-class investment solutions and provide insurers with optimized asset allocation to effectively balance risk constraints and return requirements.

If you identify your institution as an industry leader that is pushing boundaries and driving unrivalled innovation, while helping insurance companies navigate this increasingly challenging and complex economic climate, we welcome you to send in your nominations for the respective awards. Awards winners will be announced and celebrated across The Digital Banker’s / The Global Insurer’s global media channels, magazine, and multi-media partner outlets. .

WHY NOMINATE?

There is a clear need for insurance companies to utilize the services and specialist expertise of external asset managers given an increasingly complex investment landscape. Indeed, it is estimated that the size of assets under management being administered by institutional asset managers on behalf of their insurance clients has more than doubled in the last ten years. The prevailing low-yield environment of the preceding decade coupled with continued regulatory scrutiny has necessitated insurers to seek alternate avenues of improved investment performance.

Notably, insurance companies are considering the outsourcing of some specialized strategies or exposure to particular asset classes is perhaps best routed through external asset managers, which have the demonstrated capabilities, resources and track-record to deliver investment results. This is especially relevant when insurers seek access to and management of certain types of fixed-income securities, alternative investments and emerging asset classes.

Understandably, while the trend towards engaging institutional asset managers is unlikely to change in the near future, insurance companies remain hard-pressed in selecting the right partners. Asset management companies that will stand out are those that can showcase exceptional leadership in aligning their investment strategies with the goals and performance expectations of insurance companies.

Now, more than ever, it is imperative institutional asset managers ensure that their specialist capabilities and technological capabilities are able to generate desired risk-adjusted returns for insurers, while ensuring that client portfolios are optimized to remain resilient, flexible and adaptable to evolving market conditions.

WHO CAN APPLY?

The Institutional Asset Management Awards program is open to all external asset managers and third-party fund management companies servicing the investment mandates of insurance companies. We also invite nominations from technology solution providers who are playing a crucial role in supporting these asset management companies.

JUDGING METHODOLOGY

Shortlisted nominees are selected on the qualitative and quantitative depth of their nominations.

The Digital Banker/ Global Insurer research team will shortlist four institutions or individuals per category, which will then be put to our impartial panel of expert judges who will undertake a rigorous audit type process to carefully select the winners.

We use a proprietary, numerical & qualitative scoring methodology which is applied to all submissions and augmented by assessment in: Innovation, Client Experience, Investment Performance and Strategy.

We uphold the highest adherence to confidentiality and personal data. As such, all responses will be treated as strictly confidential. No data shall be shared beyond the assessment of The Digital Banker/Global Insurer’s judging panel, unless permission has been granted.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Only projects that have been completed in 2024 will be accepted. Initiation of the project can be earlier – The Digital Banker/Global Insurer does not require a specific commencement date. If a project was completed prior to 2024, the project will be accepted only if any significant updates have been made to it.

We do not place a limit on the number of submissions per institution. Please note that a separate submission is required for each award that the institution is nominating itself for. Multiple submissions by a single institution for a single category will compete with each other. Please ensure to select the corresponding category and award title in the submission form to view the respective questionnaire.

For further information, please contact The Digital Banker/Global Insurer Team at enq@digitalbankeronline.com.

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