Financial Advice NZ (FANZ) has opened up nominations for three awards due to be presented at its annual conference in Christchurch early next month.
In a statement, FANZ says the program “honours those who have demonstrated innovation and leadership and driven positive change within the financial advice sector”.
The three awards cover: Financial Capability Advocate; Community Impact; and, Lifetime Achievement.
Nick Hakes, FANZ chief, said in the release: “These people and organisations improve New Zealanders’ confidence in actively seeking quality life-changing financial advice.
“And good advice, in turn, improves the financial and general well-being of those who receive it.
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The FANZ annual conference is slated for April 1-3 in the Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre.
In further award-winning news, Harbour Asset Management has picked up the top gong in another global-less Morningstar NZ fund manager of the year competition.
The Wellington-headquartered Harbour, now part of the FirstCape conglomerate, was also named best in NZ equities by the research house in an awards process centred on medium-term manager performance over 2024.
While QuayStreet missed out on the fund manager of the year title it won last year, the NZX-owned firm claimed the KiwiSaver prize for the second time in succession.
Finally, Morningstar crowned Nikko Asset Management in the fixed income category for its local corporate bond prowess: the Australian manager, Bentham, was the NZ fixed interest champ last year based on its global bond performance.
“The international equities award will not be awarded again this year, as there were no eligible candidates demonstrating suitable achievement across our award criteria,” a release says.
Morningstar declined to hand out a global equities trophy in the NZ event for the fourth year in a row citing the failure to identify any candidates “demonstrating suitable achievement across our award criteria”.
In the Australian version of the research house awards, growth equities specialist, Hyperion, took out the overall prize as well as three category wins. Yarra (formerly Nikko Australia) headed the fixed income genre with other winners including Resolution Capital (listed property and infrastructure), Robeco (sustainable), multi-sector (UniSuper) and Vinva (now part-owned by Magellan) in the ‘undiscovered manager’ category.