Financial Services Council reveals awards finalists

The Financial Services Council (FSC) has unveiled the finalists across seven categories of the Financial Services Council Awards.

The “awards recognise and celebrate the outstanding contributions and achievements of individuals, teams, and businesses across our community,” the FSC said.

The categories and finalists for the 2022 FSC Awards are:

Emerging Leader Award

Dean Anderson, Kernel Wealth
Josie Crimmins, Whai Rawa Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu
Leah Keys, Mercer

Governance Award

AIA New Zealand
New Zealand Automobile Association

Improving Consumer Outcomes Award

Compliance Refinery
Kernel Wealth
Lifetime Retirement Income
Mercer
Partners Life – customer outcomes team
Partners Life – product team
Shaun Black, ASB
Whai Rawa Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu

Innovation and Wellbeing Award

AIA New Zealand – NZ adviser wellbeing research
AIA New Zealand – products and investments team
Mercer

Team of the Year Award

Cigna – product, marketing and distribution teams
It Starts With Action working group
Kernel Wealth – marketing team
Partners Life – claims team
Summer KiwiSaver scheme

Workplace Savings Award

Bruce Kerr
Chye Heng, Beca
David Young, Maritime Retirement Scheme
Mercer

Chairman’s Award for Service to the Industry

David Greenslade, Strategi Group
Russell Hutchinson, Chatswood Consulting
Steve Wright, Partners Life
Tracey Cross, Women in Super
Trisha Edmonds, ANZ

The winners will be announced and celebrated at a gala dinner to be held at the Cordis Hotel in Auckland on Sept. 21, the first day of FSC’s annual conference. The finalists and winners are decided by an independent panel of industry judges who review and assess each nomination individually.