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.