Best of the Best
Country/Region Awards: Thailand

Showcase your Leadership in Thailand

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

Categories

Submit entries for one or more of the following categories:

Honours the outstanding CEO of a Thai 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 Thailand.

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 Thailand’s pensions industry.

Submission Guidelines

  • Outline your significant achievements and contributions to the pensions market within Thailand 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 overall excellence of a Thai asset management firm.

Submission Guidelines

  • Demonstrate a significant market share based on net assets raised from both retail and institutional investors.
  • Detail your firm’s management stability, new initiatives, if any, over the past year.
  • Provide supporting data on your firm’s growth of assets over the past two years for the period to 30 November 2025.

Honours the top-performing alternative investment manager in Thailand.

Submission Guidelines

  • Highlight your firm’s area of expertise within the alternative investment space and explain the particular strategy that your firm has excelled in.
  • Explain your firm’s investment and research processes, performance record, size of client base, and relevant client endorsements, if any.

Recognises the top-performing bond manager in Thailand.

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 most successful equity manager in Thailand.

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 engagement activities undertaken by a Thai 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.

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

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.

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

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 Thailand.
  • 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 Thailand’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 Thailand.

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.

Recognises excellence in investor education programs.

Submission Guidelines

  • Describe your firm, industry body or association, or government agency’s initiatives to raise awareness of financial planning to enhance retirement savings.
  • Detail the target audience, channels used, and the impact of your efforts.
  • Highlight any innovative approaches or technologies employed.

Awards excellence in member communications by a Thai asset manager.

Submission Guidelines

  • Your firm must demonstrate the effectiveness of its platform in enhancing member engagement and reporting through web-based tools and mobile apps.
  • This award is open to service providers, asset managers, and pension funds.
  • Please provide information on your firm’s service benchmarks.

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.

Awards the top-performing pension fund manager in Thailand.

Submission Guidelines

  • Your firm will be evaluated on its performance in managing domestic pension mandates over the past three and five years.
  • Provide supporting data, including the size of these mandates and your returns relative to relevant benchmarks.

Recognises the most effective pension plan sponsor in Thailand.

Submission Guidelines

  • Your pension fund must demonstrate significant progress and achievements in the country.
  • Explain your fund’s performance over the past year and highlight any new initiatives implemented up to November 30, 2025.

Honours the most effective climate change strategy implemented by a Thailand-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 Thailand.

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 Thailand’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.

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.

Contact Us

Check out our FAQs which answers the most common questions. If you have any further questions or have any issues with submitting your application, reach out to us at awards@asiaasset.com.

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