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Skybound Wealth has been named Company of the Year at the Investment International Awards for three years in a row.
This year, we won it twice over: the readers' choice and the overall award.
We also won awards for client service, both globally and in the Middle East, and for fintech.
“Being chosen once is good. Being chosen three years running says something about how a business is run.”
I'm proud of these results, and I'm happy to say so plainly.
The firms we compete with are strong. The judges know this industry inside out. The readers who vote see the whole market, and they don't hand out their support lightly. Winning the readers' choice means people across our industry put our name forward. Winning overall means our case held up against everyone else's. Doing both in the same year is the result I'm proudest of.
Being chosen once is good. Being chosen three years running says something about how a business is run.
Here's what I think it says. Consistency is a set of habits, not a slogan. Answering quickly. Getting the detail right. Telling clients what they need to hear, not just what they'd like to hear. Holding the same standard on a busy Friday afternoon as on awards night.
It's no coincidence that client service and fintech were recognised in the same year. At Skybound, they belong together.
Our clients live and work all over the world. They need advice that keeps up with them, and advisers who have the full picture the moment they pick up the phone. That's why we build so much of our technology ourselves. The Skybound App keeps clients connected to their plans wherever they are. Hub, the system our advisers work in every day, puts everything they need in one place.
Every investment we make in technology has one job: giving our people more time and better information for the conversations that matter. The awards recognise the tools. Our clients feel the difference in the service.
“Every investment we make in technology has one job: giving our people more time and better information for the conversations that matter.”
To our clients: you trust us with some of the most important decisions in your life. We take that seriously every day, not just on awards night. Thank you.
To our people: this result is yours. It belongs to the advisers, the support teams, and the colleagues in compliance, technology, operations and marketing. It also belongs to the people who spent long evenings on submissions that most of the industry will never see. The submissions told the story. You wrote it.
To our partners: thank you for working alongside us. Great advice depends on great relationships, and we have some of the best.
Awards are a good moment to stop and say thank you. They're not a finish line.
We'll keep investing in our advisers, in their development and in the next generation coming through. We'll keep building technology that makes good advice easier to give and easier to receive. And we'll keep holding ourselves to the standard that got us here.
The year will change again. Our standards won't.
Mike Coady is the CEO of Skybound Wealth and a practising international financial adviser, specialising in cross-border financial planning for expatriates, internationally mobile families, senior professionals and business owners.
Mike began his financial services career in 1997 and has spent more than 25 years advising clients, leading advisers and building international wealth management businesses across the UK, Europe and the Middle East. Having lived and worked in the GCC for more than 20 years, and having grown up in an expat family himself, Mike understands the financial reality of life abroad in a way that is both technical and personal.
His professional credentials include Fellow of the London Institute of Banking & Finance, the Diploma in Financial Planning, EFPA European Financial Advisor, Fellow of the Institute of Directors, Founding Fellow of the Institute of Sales Professionals, member of the Chartered Insurance Institute and member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.
Mike is a UK FCA-registered adviser and personally registered under the relevant Cyprus investment and insurance distribution frameworks. Through Skybound’s European regulatory structure and passporting permissions, he is able to advise and support clients across EU and EEA member states.
In the UAE, Mike works within Skybound’s regulated UAE framework. Skybound’s UAE entities are regulated by the Central Bank of the UAE for insurance intermediation and by the UAE Capital Market Authority, ensuring clients are supported through the appropriate regulated entity.
Mike has been recognised in International Adviser’s IA 100: Industry’s Most Influential 2025-2026 and named in the VouchedFor 2026 Top Rated Adviser Guide. He has also received industry recognition across advice, leadership, business development and client outcomes, and is a writer, blogger and industry commentator on expat financial planning, adviser standards, regulation, investment behaviour, retirement planning and long-term wealth protection.
As CEO of Skybound Wealth, Mike leads a multi-jurisdictional wealth management business supporting clients across the Middle East, the UK, Europe, Switzerland, the US and beyond. His work is focused on helping clients build, protect and transfer wealth with structure, clarity and long-term accountability.
Mike’s view is simple: good advice should not begin with a product. It should begin with the client’s life, the risks they cannot afford to ignore, and the decisions they need to get right before the consequences become expensive.
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