Insurance Investor | European Awards 2024

What is the criteria for nominated judges?

They must have deep knowledge of Insurance Asset Management matters and be involved in managing assets (note, not distribution or servicing clients) of either Life or None Life insurance groups
Be responsible for either of the following four areas:

Investments
Asset allocation
Portfolio Risk
Core fixed income and alternatives investment areas

Be available in the month of August and early September to judge an expected 8 – 10 entries from insurers each

Could we put forward someone who works in business development or ‘solutions’?

We can’t accept any Judge who’s role is known to be in sales, business development, client services, or other specified commercial role.

If the person you’re nominating is in a ‘solutions’ or ‘advisory’ role, we’ll ask for published evidence (LinkedIn profile, article, or other published material) that shows that a majority if not all of their role is focussed on managing the investments of insurance clients, asset allocation, portfolio risk, and / or core fixed income and / or alternative investment areas.

We reserve the right to decline a nomination if we remain uncertain, and ask for your understanding if we do, as the credibility of the awards rests on the belief the Judging process is robust, non-commercial, and done by investments focussed professionals.

What’s the benefit to us in asking a senior team member to give up their time to be a Judge?

Our judges and their organisations can expect to benefit from a variety of recognition opportunities, including:

Listing as a Judge on the Awards website – Insurance Investor | European Awards 2024 – with a target of 3,000 page views
3 - 5 x mentions in LinkedIn social media posts of Judges, a campaign we have a target to create 10,000+ impressions through
Inclusion in an article on Insurance Investor (www.InsuranceInvestor.com) announcing our Judges, with a target of 3,500+ page views
Attendance at the Awards Ceremony in London on the evening of Thursday September 26th (to note, the Awards Ceremony invitation cannot be substituted for another person, should the Judge be unable to attend)

How will judging take place and how much time am I asking of a nominated representative?

Judges need only reserve 2 – 3 hours in June to evaluate the entries, as each Insurer entering answers three questions, limited to 200-words per entry.

Judges evaluate each entry independently of one another, via a purpose built judging software called Evessio. Therefore, there is no requirement to be physically present in London, should your judge be based elsewhere. It is also not a requirement for your judge to attend the awards ceremony, though we hope they can.

All entries are anonymised so judges are not influenced by pre-existing knowledge of the insurer and insurers can be additionally transparent on their asset allocation and investment approaches.

Can we still enter the Third-Party Manager awards if we have a representative of our firm judging the Insurer categories AND is there a conflict of interest if we judge the Insurers and are shortlisted for one or more Third-Party Manager awards?

Yes, you can still enter the Third Party Manager categories – categories and entry instructions – if you have a representative participating as a Judge of the Insurer categories.

We have 15 well recognised CIOs and other senior investment professionals from Insurers judging entries for our Third Party Manager categories and will have Third Party Managers judging Insurers.

Further to this, all entries are anonymised and all judging is done independently via our awards judging platform, Evessio, so no one Judge knows if they are assessing a client or prospect.

As such, there is both no risk of conflict of interest or bias based on previous known information or existing commercial relationship.

What type of questions will Insurers be asked to respond to?

Each insurer applying must respond to three questions relating to:

The history of their investment strategy, the asset allocation mix, and reasons for choosing the investment strategy approach that they have
The innovative ideas or approaches that have been applied to their investment strategy, that strengthen its risk management processes and / or return potential
What significant evolutions of their investment approach has there been during its lifetime and what has driven these changes

Scoring is on the basis of 1 – 25 (poor), 26 – 50 (interesting), 51 – 75 (excellent), 76 – 100 (market leading).

Will the Insurers entering know how our representative voted, as we don’t want it to be known if we poorly score a client or prospect?

No chance, whatsoever! All scores are entered onto our awards judging platform – Evessio – and every judge scores independently of each other. Further to that, all entries are anonymised – this provides the insurers with greater confidence to go into detail and judges to be honest with their assessments – so no one judge can know for certain whose entry they are judging. The insurers entering will be aware of all this.

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