Luminaries’ 2024 Nominations Portal Is Now Open

ThinkAdvisor’s pioneering recognition program — the Luminaries — is presently accepting nominations for our expanded listing of 2024 awards, which at the moment are open to extra segments of the monetary providers trade.  

In its fourth yr, the Luminaries awards will rejoice the achievements of prime 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 and marketing/PR Awards (Companies) — New
• Trade 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 July 17, and there’s no price 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, reminiscent of insurance coverage and retirement product corporations, actual property funding corporations, RIA assist platforms, household places of work and wholesalers. 

As well as, fims that provide advisor assist providers — in areas like compliance, commerce conferences, advertising and marketing/PR, recruiting, analysis and belief — can be honored, together with extra sorts of know-how 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 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 at this time 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 shouldn’t be meant to emphasise asset ranges or rankings — or the newest trade buzz. Fairly, our awards and protection of the winners ​will inform the tales of how top-performing trade contributors are producing significant ends in the areas that matter most to advisors.

The awards honor trade gamers that “aspire to better heights of management, creativity and impression [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 standards of the award classes that our judges will use to guage nominations in 2024 are as follows: 

• Company Social Duty Awards (Companies): On this class, previously referred to as Neighborhood Affect, we acknowledge corporations 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 impression of digital campaigns, instructional packages, public relations and social media campaigns that drive advisor development and long-term success.
• Government Management Awards (People): Honoring people who’ve demonstrated distinctive management, consumer service and innovation, serving as position fashions of trade excellence.
• Trade Disruption Awards (Companies) — New: Highlighting corporations which have reshaped present markets or pioneered totally new segments by modern methods, applied sciences, or enterprise fashions.
• Innovation Awards (Companies): Recognizing organizations which have demonstrated distinctive creativity and ahead pondering by distinctive consumer packages or modern approaches.
• Luminaries With Coronary heart Awards (People): On this class, previously referred to as Neighborhood Affect, we rejoice people who’ve made important contributions in philanthropy, company social accountability, DEI, ESG, or different impactful endeavors, positively influencing communities on native, nationwide and international scales.
• M&A Leaders Awards (People at RIA Companies) — 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 exceptional contributions to their organizations by modern packages, services or products, driving excellent outcomes and shaping the way forward for the trade.
• Thought Management & Schooling Award (Companies): Acknowledging corporations which have superior and extensively 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)