The first ever ESG Clarity Awards will be held in-person at the Ham Yard Hotel in London on 14 June, following the Global ESG Summit (held at the same venue).
Here are all the details:
Date: 14 June
Time 5.30pm
Venue: Ham Yard Hotel, 1 Ham Yard, London W1D 7DT (* for the venue’s sustainability credentials)
Deadline for submissions: 29 April
Please email your submissions and for any information on the awards email ESGCawards@bonhillplc.com. There is no charge to enter.
To submit your nominations for the initiative awards, click here.
Initiative/House Awards
There are also a number of initiative-based awards where individuals, teams and groups can make nominations and showcase their credentials.
See below for the fund categories and criteria:
Most Innovative Fund Launch
- Active
- Passive
Criteria: Launched within the last two years. Innovation can be displayed as a first-of-its-kind product and offering the market something unique, and/or accessing innovative technology or themes that are supporting the mitigation of climate change, society or the just transition.
Best Thought Leadership/Research
- Team/Group
Innovative research or thought leadership on E, S or G that has had wide-reaching impact on the industry and created change.
Best Diversity/Corporate Culture Initiative
- Group
Company initiative that has increased diversity and inclusivity across the business or has demonstrated an improvement in terms of corporate culture and pay gap reporting.
Best Social Initiative
Recognise the work investment firms are carrying out that fits in with the ‘S’ of ESG. Social initiatives that have demonstrated significant change in a community or society.
- Group
ESG Rising Star of the Year (individual)
An individual that has worked in ESG investing for less than five years and has demonstrated strengths by supporting colleagues with thorough ESG research and integration to create change in their business and industry.
- Individual
Outstanding Contribution to ESG Investment
- Individual
This individual will have spent significant amount of time educating the investment industry about the benefits of ESG investing and created change.
Engagement Award
- Group
A company that can demonstrate positive engagement with a number of companies either by conversations or voting so that they have improved their ESG credentials.
Best NGO supporting ESG investment services
Non-profits, charities and NGOs are invited to submit their work showcasing the support they have offered to the investment management industry and their work with firms to effect environmental and social change. We also want to see where NGOs are working with governments and regulators in embedding ESG investment into policies.
Best ESG Wealth Manager
Best ESG Adviser
Best Platform for ESG
Best ESG Active Fund House
Best ESG Passive Fund House
Editor’s Choice (submissions not needed)
To submit your nominations for the initiative awards, click here.
Fund awards (no submissions)
The fund section of the awards for each pre-defined category will use ESG data exclusively supplied to ESG Clarity by MSCI ESG Research. A consistent methodology will be applied to select an initial pool of funds – both active and passive – onto which our expert judging panel will apply a qualitative layer of analysis, based on their own research and review of the data, in order to identify the winners of each category.
These categories are:
Best Global ESG Equity Fund
- Active
- Passive
Best Regional ESG Equity Fund
- Active
- Passive
Best Alternatives ESG Equity Fund
- Active
- Passive
Best Thematic ESG Equity Fund
- Active
- Passive
Best Fixed Income ESG Fund
- Active
- Passive
Best Multi-Asset ESG Fund
- Active only
Best Emerging Markets ESG Fund
- Active
- Passive
Best Impact Fund
- Active
- Passive
Best Climate Focused Fund
- Active
- Passive
*Ham Yard Hotel
Ham Yard was previously a deserted ¾ acre site, before Firmdale Hotels transformed the area into an all-new village connecting Great Windmill and Denman Streets via a tree-filled public thoroughfare.
Food is sourced on flavour, and during the summer months 80% of the hotel’s fruit and veg is sourced from the UK. The kitchen tries to use UK produce as much as possible with milk sourced is from a small farm in Lancashire that have a higher selenium content than the normal over processed milks available, all of the eggs are organic, 70% of fish is caught of the south coast on day boats, and meat is farmed in small parts of the west country, Ireland and Scotland.
The Ham Yard Hotel also uses its roof top garden produce for use in the restaurant and the events kitchen, which includes a herb garden and beehives.
From an energy perspective, Ham Yard has an ‘excellent’ Energy Performance Rating. Some of the strategies used in the building include a water monitoring device to avoid water leakage of excessive usage inside the hotel, dual flush toilets to reduce water usage, native plants for green roof and landscaping, insulation for excellent thermal performance, air source heat pumps for cooling and heating the building and photovoltaic panels are installed on the roof to generate additional electricity.
