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Best of the Best
Country/Region Awards: Singapore

Showcase your Leadership in Singapore

The Best of the Best Country/Region Awards recognise exceptional organisations that have demonstrated outstanding performance and leadership within Singapore. Showcase your firm’s regional expertise and be celebrated as a leader in Singapore.

ETF categories (e.g. ETF Manager of the Year, Best New ETF, ETF Index Provider of the Year) are now part of our dedicated AAM ETF Awards 2026, revived after nearly a decade! Submissions open December 15th 2025.

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Submit entries for one or more of the following categories:

Celebrates the outstanding CEO of a Singaporean asset management firm.

Submission Guidelines

  • Explain how your firm has navigated the challenging market conditions of the past year.
  • Demonstrate your leadership in guiding the firm through these challenges, and discuss your firm’s performance, assets under management, and any new initiatives, if any, implemented.

Recognises the top chief investment officer in Singapore.

Submission Guidelines

  • Demonstrate your outstanding achievements as a chief investment officer at the country level for a pension fund or fund management company.
  • Explain how you have successfully navigated market conditions, mitigated risks, and positioned your portfolios for future market cycles.
  • Provide supporting data on the portfolios you manage, the size of your investment team, your investment performance, and new initiatives implemented, if any.
Recognises the individual demonstrating the most outstanding leadership and impact within Singapore’s pensions industry.

Submission Guidelines

  • Outline your significant achievements and contributions to the pensions market within Singapore over the past 1-3 years.
  • Highlight your strategic vision and successful implementation of key initiatives for your firm within the pensions sector.
  • Describe your leadership approach, including team management and engagement with clients or stakeholders.
  • Detail any innovative solutions, new initiatives, or significant contributions you have made to advance the country’s pensions landscape.
  • Provide evidence of your influence and positive impact on the industry (e.g. policy contributions, thought leadership, successful business growth).

Recognises the top-performing bond manager in Singapore.

Submission Guidelines

  • Describe your firm’s investment and research process, including how you have navigated challenges and country-specific issues over the past year.
  • Provide performance data for the past year and indicate the size of your bond assets.
  • Support your submission with relevant data up to November 30, 2025.

Honours the leading independent and specialised asset management firm demonstrating outstanding performance and unique value proposition within the country.

Submission Guidelines

  • Define your firm as a boutique manager (e.g. AUM generally under US$10 billion, focus on specific niche strategies, independent ownership structure).
  • Provide total firm AUM and AUM specific to the country market.
  • Outline your core investment philosophy and area(s) of specialisation.
  • Showcase investment performance (e.g. 1-year, 3-year, 5-year) for representative strategies, including relevant benchmarks.
  • Describe your firm’s ownership structure and independence.
  • Highlight what makes your firm’s approach, client service, or strategy distinct from larger competitors.

Honours the most successful equity manager in Singapore.

Submission Guidelines

  • Given the ongoing global macro challenges, such as rising interest rates and inflation, explain how your domestic equity strategies have performed over the past year.
  • Highlight your successes and achievements up to November 30, 2025.
  • Provide the size of your equity assets under management for the last two years.

Celebrates the most effective ESG-focused asset manager in Singapore.

Submission Guidelines

  • Explain your firm’s approach to ESG investing.
  • Detail your firm’s ESG setup at the country level where you are applying and provide specific examples of your ESG investment strategies.
  • Indicate the size of your local ESG team, resources, products, and assets under management.

Awards the most innovative ESG engagement activities undertaken by a Singaporean asset manager.

Submission Guidelines

  • Given the growing adoption of ESG strategies and the importance of stewardship, institutional investors play a crucial role in enhancing corporate governance. Explain your firm’s stewardship and engagement practices, including reporting on voting activities and market impact at the country level.
  • Detail the structure of your ESG team and the number of company engagements in the past 12 months at the country level and the outcomes.
  • Provide information on the outcomes of these engagements up to November 30, 2025.

Honours the leading family office demonstrating excellence in wealth management, governance, and strategic advisory for a single family principal or group.

Submission Guidelines

  • Describe the family office structure (e.g. Single Family Office – SFO, embedded, virtual) and its primary mission.
  • Outline the range of services provided (e.g. investment management, succession planning, philanthropy, administrative support).
  • Provide an overview of the investment philosophy and approach to asset allocation. (Performance data is welcome but not mandatory if confidential).
  • Highlight key achievements in governance, risk management, or strategic advisory over the past 1-3 years.
  • Explain any innovative practices or unique aspects of your family office model.
  • Detail the experience and expertise of the core leadership team.

Recognises the leading fintech innovation enhancing asset management or wealth management services/client experience within Singapore.

Submission Guidelines

  • Describe the specific fintech innovation (e.g. platform, tool, process), the technology used, and the asset/wealth management challenge or opportunity it addresses in Singapore.
  • Provide evidence of the innovation’s impact (e.g. improved client outcomes, enhanced advisor efficiency, user adoption rates, AUM growth).
  • Highlight what makes this innovation unique or pioneering within the Singapore’s asset and wealth management sector.
  • Specify the timeframe of the innovation’s development and implementation/launch.

Recognises the most successful new fund launch in Singapore.

Submission Guidelines

  • Explain how your firm successfully launched a new fund and its impact over the past year up to November 30, 2025.
  • Highlight any innovative strategies employed during the launch period and provide supporting data on the amount of monies raised.

Honours the leading impact investing manager in Singapore.

Submission Guidelines

  • Given the relatively new nature of impact investing, explain how your firm is making a positive impact combining financial returns and societal returns through your strategy.
  • Discuss your firm’s approach to impact investing in either public or private markets, including your research and investment processes.
  • Provide information on the assets under management for your impact investing strategies.

Recognises the leading institutional asset manager in Singapore.

Submission Guidelines

  • Demonstrate your firm’s market share, client retention rate, and success in acquiring new business. Provide supporting data to substantiate your claims.
  • Indicate stability of the senior management team, and new initiatives launched or planned.

Celebrates excellence in multi-asset management.

Submission Guidelines

  • Explain your firm’s approach to building robust multi-asset portfolios for both retail and institutional clients.
  • Highlight your firm’s superior capital markets and risk management expertise.
  • Provide supporting performance data to demonstrate your effectiveness.

Honours the leading manager demonstrating excellence, expertise, and success in private markets investing within Singapore.

Submission Guidelines

  • Outline your firm’s private markets strategy, focus (e.g. PE, VC, Private Credit), AUM, team expertise, and representative track record within Singapore.
  • Highlight key successes, innovations, or leadership demonstrating value creation specific to the Singapore private markets over the past 1-3 years.

Recognises the top-performing REITs manager in Singapore.

Submission Guidelines

  • Highlight your firm’s current size, fund performance, recent initiatives, new product launches, and future plans.
  • Provide supporting data for the period ending November 30, 2025.

Honours the leading retail asset management firm in Singapore.

Submission Guidelines

  • Your firm must demonstrate a strong market share in the retail market, as evidenced by net assets raised during the year, new fund launches, if any, new investor education initiatives, and successful new distribution arrangements.
  • Explain your firm’s online presence and how technology is deployed to enhance the client experience.

Recognises the most effective application of ESG principles by a Singaporean asset manager.

Submission Guidelines

  • Given the three core components of ESG (environment, social, and governance), explain how your firm integrates these factors into your research and investment processes at the country level where you are applying.
  • Detail how your firm’s ESG policies and strategies are implemented across portfolios (firm-wide or by asset class) and the research methodology and scoring system used.
  • Provide supporting data on assets and any relevant third-party endorsements.

Honours the most effective climate change strategy implemented by a Singaporean-based firm.

Submission Guidelines

  • This award will recognise an institution (stock exchange, bank, asset manager, insurer, sovereign wealth fund, corporate) for its efforts in decarbonisation and contributing to the energy transition towards a net-zero emissions world.
  • Explain your institution’s response to this challenge at the country level, including steps implemented to date and future plans.

Honours the leading digital wealth management platform in Singapore.

Submission Guidelines

  • Given the digital revolution, please explain how your firm’s platform has leveraged technology to improve efficiency and reduce costs for individual investors seeking financial planning and retirement savings.
  • Discuss the structure of your platform, the scale of investment offerings, your firm’s size, innovative practices, and ease of use.
  • Provide supporting data for the past two years.

Awards the most innovative use of AI in Singapore’s asset management industry.

Submission Guidelines

  • Given the growing adoption of AI in investment management, please explain how your firm is leveraging AI technologies, such as Generative AI and Large Language Models, to enhance your portfolio management processes.
  • Discuss the impact of these technologies on your firm’s operations and clients’ outcomes in the region.

Celebrates the most innovative product or fund launched by a Singapore-based firm.

Submission Guidelines

  • Your firm has been able to design and successfully launch a new and innovative fund or product for your clients in the past year and to anticipate market demand early on in the investment cycle at either the country or regional level.
  • Provide supporting data, including the amount of monies raised.

Honours the manager demonstrating the most effective and efficient use of the VCC structure for operational excellence, governance, and transparency in Singapore.

Submission Guidelines

  • Describe how your firm leverages the VCC structure for operational efficiency, governance, and compliance within Singapore.
  • Highlight key features of your VCC operating platform (e.g. technology, reporting, administration) and provide evidence of its benefits (e.g. cost savings, scalability, transparency).

Honours the fund management company demonstrating superior investment performance and strategy across its suite of VCC funds based in Singapore.

Submission Guidelines

  • Provide an overview of your firm’s VCC funds, total AUM within VCC structures, and representative investment performance highlights (e.g. 1yr, 3yr net of fees) versus relevant benchmarks.
  • Highlight key investment strategies employed within your VCC funds, innovation in those strategies, effective risk management, portfolio diversification, and showcase your team’s expertise in managing assets via this structure in Singapore.

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Period
30 November 2024 – 30 November 2025

Eligible Funds
Must be available to Asian investors.

Minimum Track Record
1+ years (refer to individual award details for specific eligibility criteria).

Judging Criteria

Please see individual award details for specific judging criteria.

Submission Requirements

Deadline
December 17th, 2025 at close of business 6pm HKT. Late submissions will not be considered.

Payment
Ensure payment accompanies the submission.

How to Submit

1. Gather required documentation.
2. Complete the online form.
3. Submit application before the deadline.

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