Asset Management Awards 2020 – request for pitches
AsianInvestor is pleased to open the nominations period for our annual Asset Management Awards for 2020.
We would like to invite both asset service providers and investment managers to pitch, using an online nomination process. Please visit this website to gain more information about and enter the awards.
The website includes a full online submission form for our Asset Services Awards (which you can also find at this link), as well as our Asset Management Awards (which you can also find at this link).
We also have a full website and rulebook for the awards, which can be found at this link.
Our asset services awards cover custody, legal and audit services, and trading and execution. Our asset management awards cover investment performance, including by country and asset focus, as well as our marquee awards for asset managers.
In addition to requesting pitches for the awards, the AsianInvestor editorial team will conduct its own research. Plus we will seek to incorporate qualitative feedback from regional asset owners regarding their primary third-party service providers.
Organisations pitching for our awards are also encouraged to submit testamonials and contact details of institutional clients vouching for the quality of their support; such third-party evidence is viewed very favourably.
All pitches must be made using this digital process. We will not accept separately submitted pitches. The submission deadline for pitches is Friday, 28th February.
ASSET SERVICE AWARD CATEGORIES
The awards categories are as follows:
1. Best global custodian for asset owners
2. Best global custodian for mutual funds
3. Best bank for cross-border custody
4. Best law firm for asset management, Asia Pacific
5. Best auditor (funds and tax)
6. Best index provider, global
In addition, our Marquee award: Asset Service Provider of the Year is open to custodians and all other service providers.
ASSET MANAGEMENT AWARD CATEGORIES
Asset class awards
For our public market awards, we study statistical data provided by independent third parties. Based on that analysis, we shortlist candidates, whom we then invite to pitch. If you don’t hear from us, you have not been shortlisted. For your information, the asset class categories are as follows:
- Global fixed income, hedged
- Global fixed income, unhedged
- Emerging-market debt
- Japan fixed income
- Asian fixed income, US dollar
- Asian fixed income, local currency
- Chinese domestic fixed income
- Global equity
- Emerging-market equity
- Japan equity
- Asia ex-Japan equity
- China A-shares
- Real estate investment trusts
- Smart beta
Fund House of the Year Awards (by country)
We invite submissions from businesses with local licences and locally domiciled investment products (regardless of whether the applicant company is headquartered locally or overseas) to compete to be named their market’s Fund House of the Year. The countries we cover are as follows:
Australia/New Zealand
China
China (offshore)
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Japan
Korea
Malaysia
Philippines
Singapore
Taiwan
Thailand
Vietnam
We welcome submissions from managers of long-only, public, hedge and private funds. Please include details about your organisation and supporting data and client testimonials (where possible), as well as client contacts for AsianInvestor to request feedback on quality of service provided. Supporting documents from and conversations with clients will be off the record, but the client must be identified.
We will not accept additional information: no glossy pamphlets, charts, bios, photos etc. It annoys us.
Marquee Awards
Private Bank of the Year
Best Business Development
Best Private Equity Fund Manager (Asia Pacific-headquartered)
Best Real Estate Fund Manager (Asia Pacific-headquartered)
Best Infrastructure Fund Manager (Asia Pacific-headquartered)
Best Hedge Fund Manager (Asia Pacific-headquartered)
Best Startup Fund Manager (Asia Pacific-headquartered)
Best Passive Fund Manager
Best ESG Strategy Adviser
Best Institutional Product/Strategy
Best Institutional Solutions Provider
Lifetime Achievement Award for Asset Management (individual award)
Asia Fund House of the Year
Asset Manager of the Year
Interviews will take place in Hong Kong from mid-March until the end of March. These can be set up in advance, but we must receive either your asset service award or asset management award online pitch form on time. Interviews are off the record and are intended to put your formal pitch into context and provide further detail and clarification.
AsianInvestor will celebrate the awards at a black-tie gala dinner on Thursday, May 21 in Hong Kong. This will form part of AI Week, a three-day series of industry events, comprising workshops, panels, private discussion groups, awards and conferences. It will include our 15th annual Asian Investment Summit, featuring speakers and delegates from the region’s leading institutional investors.
Thank you for your interest in AsianInvestor's Asset Management Awards for 2020. Good luck!