Now in their 26th year, Investment Week’s Investment Company of the Year Awards have a proud history of rewarding excellence in closed-ended fund management.
The awards highlight outstanding managers in this important part of the market, who have delivered consistently strong performance for investors across a variety of sectors and the judges believe can continue to perform well in the future. The shortlists for the awards are constructed using scores provided by the AIC, using Morningstar data. Winners are then chosen by our judging panel after heated debate during our judging sessions, where qualitative factors will also be considered.
The judging panel for the awards includes some of the UK’s leading researchers and investors in investment companies, with many years’ experience in the industry.
During the awards ceremony, we will also be honouring our Rising Star of the Year and this year's winner of the Jackie Beard Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Industry.
Tonight we are proudly supporting RedSTART:
RedSTART ‘s aim is to provide financial education to transform the life
chances of young people across the country. They do this in partnership with major financial institutions, local businesses and over 600 volunteers in five key locations across the UK. Getting a head means starting early. Through
seven years of primary school, they foster and track pupils’ development, running programmes and providing resources for teachers and parents. They teach children progressively, building on their previous years’ knowledge.
In the UK, to our shame, we squander the potential of millions of
children year after year because we don’t equip them with the everyday life skills around money they need in adulthood. In doing so, we
perpetuate a pernicious cycle of disadvantage. That cycle needs to be broken.
Now. Research by the Money and Pensions Service shows that children have already started to develop attitudes and habits around money by the age of seven. FCA research also suggests nearly 13 million UK adults have low
financial resilience, with a lack of financial capability being the key driver for a fifth of people showing signs of financial vulnerability. That vulnerability puts the brakes on social mobility.
The goal of the Change the Game initiative and the King’s College Policy
Institute’s longitudinal study is to build an evidence base on the impact of
early, continuous intervention to improve financial understanding.
The findings will be used to inform public policy and develop a
scalable blueprint for government to follow in the national curriculum for primary schools.
Ultimately, it will show that by adopting the programme it is possible to
improve the financial knowledge, and therefore prospects, of all children – but especially those currently hampered by socio-economic
disadvantage.
https://redstarteducate.org/