Deadline Friday 18 September
The IPE European Pension Fund Awards
The IPE European Pension Fund Awards have been rewarding excellence and innovation in Europe's diverse pensions industry for 25 years, creating a meaningful annual benchmark enabling pensions providers of all shapes and sizes to measure their investment and other areas of performance against their peers at national, regional and global levels as well as against institutions of a similar size, remit and resource.
+40 Categories
With more than 40 categories spanning countries, regions and investment strategies, the IPE European Pension Fund Awards celebrate the innovation, commitment and excellence driving Europe's diverse pensions industry.
+25 Years
Over the past 25 years, the IPE European Pension Fund Awards have evolved into one of the most prestigious and respected events in the European pensions calendar, recognised for their scale, influence and industry impact.
Performance Benchmark
The IPE European Pension Fund Awards provide a meaningful annual benchmark, enabling pension funds to measure their investment and wider performance against industry peers across Europe.
How does it work?
The IPE European Pension Fund Awards are arranged on five levels:
- Gold awards
- Silver awards
- Bronze awards
- Country/Regional awards
- Themed awards
For the silver awards: Corporate Pension Fund, Multi-employer/Professional Pension Fund and Public Pension Fund and the gold European Pension Fund of the Year, IPE builds the categories based on the winners from across the country/regional, themed and bronze awards. You do not prepare entries for these categories
Each entrant must enter their respective country or regional award and may then enter as many of the themed awards as they like, making use of our online entry form.
Once the entries are submitted, we invite the judges to review them using the same online system. This involves a 20-point score matrix and follow-up debates, if need be, to declare the winner in each category.
Who can enter?
We welcome entries from all types of pensions structures and arrangements from across Europe, including cash, defined benefit, defined contribution and hybrid plans, irrespective of size and the regulatory environments in which they operate. These may include:
- Corporate pension funds and group retirement plans
- French and Swiss Caisses de Retraite
- Italian Casse de Previdenza
- Industry-wide multi-employer pension funds
- Life insurance and pensions insurance companies
- Professional multi-employer pension funds
- Public sector pension funds
- Sovereign reserve and buffer funds
- National first pillar and pay-as-you-go pension funds
The IPE European Pension Fund Awards cannot and does not accept entries from pensions-owned investment vehicles or funds. In addition, IPE reserves the right to restrict entries from pension-owned asset managers to themed awards only in support of specific areas of the investment strategy they pursue for the pension fund that owns them.
The Entry Form
This is supported by a seamless online entry form, broken down into five easy-to-navigate parts:
- Category and name of the entrant.
- Fundamentals, detailing data such as the size of your assets, performance figures and fund structure.
- Overview and Investment Strategy section, this 450–500 word text area requires a detailed summary of your fund’s history, objectives, and investment strategy. This information helps the judges understand your pension fund or similar institution. Bullet points are allowed, but they should be detailed enough to give judges a clear and comprehensive view of your organization.
- Main text, a longer text based area with an optimum range of 900-1,000 words for your country/regional entry and any themed awards you wish to take part in.
- Attachments, to upload your logo and any other supporting attachments such as graphs and performance tables.
Deadline Friday 18 September
For further guidance or information, please contact:
Alice O'Brien
Awards & Events Manager
alice.obrien@ipe.com
+44 7827 157336