M&G Investments' nimble approach and extensive experience secured the asset manager this year's Alternatives Manager of the Year Award.

Judges felt MSIM showcased the most complete presentation of capability and track record

Insight Investment's ability to maintain a strong fixed income offering amid a choppy year for fixed income investors wins the global asset manager Fixed Income Manager of the Year award.

Clearwater Analytics' powerful, cloud-based technology for robust investment data management wins the IFRS 9 Solution Provider of the Year award.

Morgan Stanley Investment Management's (MSIM) 1GT platform had already caught the judges' eyes last year and, once again, MSIM takes the prize for investment innovation, in 2024.

For a third year in a row, EY wins Insurance Asset Risk's Investment strategy consultant of the year award.

Depth of experience was a compelling factor in the judging panel's decision to hand this year's Investment Team of the Year - Asset Manager award to M&G's fundamental credit team.

Invesco's prowess as a provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and its success developing a range of solutions across asset classes for insurers in 2023 has secured it Passive Manager of the Year award.

Dubbed "by far the most compelling entry" by this year's judges, AllianceBernstein's private debt platform growth takes 2024's Insurance Asset Risk Private Debt Manager of the Year award.

Swiss Life Asset Managers develops future-oriented investment solutions for its third-party investors as well as interest-aligned capabilities for Swiss Life's insurance policyholders.

Zurich wins this year's Responsible Investor of the Year Award as its responsible investment strategy - which places a focus on ESG integration and impact investing - celebrates its 12th birthday.

Having recently invested in its responsible investment team and expanded its ESG integration practices, RLAM won praise from judges for having "really taken the reins on stewardship, and their engagement with the water sector is to be commended"

Aviva Investors takes the prize for Social Investing Initiative of the Year thanks to its Social Transition Engagement Programme (STEP), joint engagement between ESG and buy and maintain analysts, and its human rights advocacy.

AllianceBernstein's partnership with Walk Free, an initiative of Minderoo Foundation, looks at the links between climate change, the clean energy transition and increased vulnerability to human trafficking and modern slavery

Nuveen has won Insurance Asset Risk's Climate Mitigation Investment Initiative of the Year award for its Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) loan-based offering, allowing financing for renewable energy upgrades to commercial real estate.

Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) is a significant equity investor, with £58.1bn in equity assets under management, as of 31 October 2023.

Ortec Finance has won Insurance Asset Risk's Climate Risk Solution award for its climate scenarios - the first top-down model, it says - constructed in partnership with Cambridge Econometrics.

Ashish Dafria imbues a mixture of optimism for the future, pride for his team and Aviva, where he is UK CIO, recognition of his responsibility to Aviva's customers, and a sense that now is "an exciting and humbling time to be a CIO".