New categories and judges for awards

International Investment has expanded the judging panel for its Offshore Fund and Product Awards and revamped several of the categories. There are four new judges for 2006: Leslie Smith, founder of intermediary business Medibroker; Sam Liddle, director of multi-manager group Miton Optimal; Laurence Boyle, head of the intermediary investment management division of Williams de Broe: and Tanya Bird, editor of International Investment. They join the existing panel (see table below) in judging entries across 14 categories. This is the same number as in previous years but several changes have...