CA Awards – All the winners – Barnett Waddingham in trophy hat-trick

Barnett Waddingham went home with a haul of trophies from the Corporate Adviser Awards 2022 ceremony in London last night, scooping gongs in the Firm of the Year, Best Pension Adviser and Best ESG Benefits Consultant categories.

Industry figures from across the benefits sector gathered at the Marriott Grosvenor Square Hotel for the Awards ceremony, hosted by comedian, actor and TV presenter Joel Dommett. Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing took the award for Best Group Risk Adviser, Wingate Benefits Solutions took top spot in the Best Healthcare Adviser category and Gallagher triumphed in Best Health & Wellbeing Solution. Corporate Adviser Small Firm of the Year was won by Generation Employee Benefits.

Aegon won the coveted Best Group Pension Adviser category, while Legal & General triumphed in the Best Master Trust category.

AXA Health UK took top spot in the Best Healthcare Provider category, while Zurich topped the table in the Best Group Risk Provider category.

Standard Life won Best Decumulation Proposition, while Nest repeated its triumph in the Ultimate Default Fund section.

Providers’ service propositions were also celebrated with the presentation of Five Star and Four Star trophies to top performers in the Corporate Adviser Service Ratings, decided by an independent satisfaction survey of over 100 advisers.

For full details of the CA Service Ratings, see the special report in the July issue of Corporate Adviser. The CA Awards Supplement, containing all the winners and photographs of the big night also comes out with the July issue of Corporate Adviser.

ALL THE WINNERS AND HIGHLY COMMENDED FIRMS

Corporate Adviser Firm of the Year
Barnett Waddingham

Corporate Adviser Small Firm of the Year
Winner: Generation Employee Benefits
Highly Commended: MEC
Highly Commended: Wingate Benefit Solutions

Best Pensions Adviser
Winner: Barnett Waddingham
Highly Commended: LEBC Group

Best Healthcare Adviser
Winner: Wingate Benefit Solutions

Best Group Risk Adviser
Winner: Howden Employee Benefits & Wellbeing
Highly Commended: LEBC Group

Best Health & Wellbeing Solution
Winner: Gallagher
Highly Commended: Barnett Waddingham

Best ESG Benefits Consultant
Winner Barnett Waddingham

Best Health & Wellbeing Innovator
Winner: LifeWorks

Best Pensions Law Firm
Winner: Sackers
Highly Commended: Arc Pensions Law

Best Decumulation Proposition
Winner: Standard Life

Best Group Pensions Provider
Winner: Aegon

Best Master Trust
Winner: Legal & General WorkSave Mastertrust

Ultimate Default Fund
Winner: Nest
Highly Commended: BlackRock

Best ESG Asset Manager
Aviva Investors

Best Default ESG Strategy
Winner: Aviva
Highly Commended: Nest

Best Financial Wellbeing Provider
Winner: Cushon
Highly Commended: Nudge Global

Best Cash Plan Provider
Winner: Medicash
Highly Commended: Health Shield

Best Healthcare Provider
Winner: AXA Health UK

Best Group Risk Provider
Winner: Zurich

PROVIDER SERVICE RATINGS

GROUP PENSIONS

Five Stars
Royal London

Four Stars
Aviva
Scottish Widows
Standard Life

GROUP RISK

Five Stars
Canada Life

Four Stars
Aviva
Unum

HEALTHCARE

Five Stars
PHC
WPA

Four Stars
Aviva
AXA Health UK
Bupa
Vitality

CASH PLANS

Five Stars
Medicash
WPA

Four Stars
BHSF