About the awards
To vote in the awards please click here.
The New Economy Awards – created to identify industry leaders, individuals, teams and organisations that represent the benchmark of achievement and best practice in the financial and business world – reflect a wider spectrum of financial services and related industries than ever before.
The The New Economy awards panel, headed up by editor Jan Spiegel, used a wide range of criteria, and the critical eye of a collective 190 years of journalism to inform its decision over the most pertinent categories to include in the 2012 awards, and to establish criteria for voters to consider, such as innovation, originality and quality of product, as well as proof of market development and excellence in client representation.
The panel has been wary to avoid the danger of bias towards criteria such as depth of practice, size of company, international links and reputation, which in so many other industry awards skews the competition in favour of the larger firms with global networks, leaving the excellent work of smaller, nationally based firms and those operating in niche areas, unrecognised. The awards are designed to redress this balance, not to favour the smaller firms, but to publicly recognise that the services they provide are every bit as valuable to their clients as those of their larger counterparts.
Now that the categories have been announced votes are invited from users of the site – as well as being requested via email blast from the The New Economy database of over 40,000 industry decision-makers.
For its 2012 awards The New Economy has taken the decision not to list nominations for the awards as this naturally means that only those companies already recognised by the panel would be eligible to win. The panel believes strongly that the awards are at their fairest and most transparent when readers are able to vote for any company that they believe deserves the accolade.
To promote fairness within this polling structure, voting patterns are carefully scrutinised for signs of tactical voting.
PLEASE NOTE: Votes cannot be limited to one per IP address as this would prevent large numbers of individuals submitting votes from their workplace at large organisations, but the panel carefully exercises its expertise in ensuring that suspicious or inappropriate companies receiving large numbers of votes are properly probed. As part of any such investigation our web team will be able to check if statistically significant numbers of votes for a suspicious company originated from the same individual or group of IP addresses, and whether the details of these voters match the identifying IP address. Any data accessed for such purposes will be treated as confidential.
As with last year’s awards, voters are being encouraged to suggest additional categories if they feel that the existing categories don’t cover all the aspects they feel deserve recognition in a given sector. Any additional awards the panel deem to be appropriate will be added to the nomination form for other users to vote on.
To have your say please select from the awards sectors above and click VOTE NOW to access your nomination form. Voting will close prior to publication of the relevant issue.