Institutional Investor magazine's 16th Annual Hedge Fund Industry Awards recognizes the hedge funds, funds of hedge funds, investment consultants, endowments, foundations, corporate funds, public funds, sovereign funds and rising stars that stood out for their performance innovation, achievements and contributions to the industry in the past year.
Award nominees will be honored and winners announced and awarded at a dinner and ceremony at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City on Thursday, June 28, 2018. Last year's event hosted more than 450 industry leaders.
We hope you'll be a part of this year's night of networking and celebration!
HEDGE FUND ALLOCATOR AWARD FINALISTS
Sovereign Wealth Fund of the Year
Alaska Permanent Fund Corp.
China Investment Corporation (CIC)
Government of Singapore Investment Corp. (GIC)
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC)
Qatar Investment Authority
The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA)
Hedge Fund Consultant of the Year
Jim Vos, Aksia
John Claisse, Albourne Partners
Michael Larsen, Cambridge Associates
Stephen Nesbitt, Cliffwater
Gregory Dowling, Fund Evaluation Group
Corporate Plan of the Year
Boeing Co.
IBM Corp.
Michelin Group
Raytheon Co.
Western Union Co.
Endowment of the Year
The J. Paul Getty Trust
Northwestern University
Penn State Office of Investment Management
Texas Tech University System
University of Texas Investment Management Co. (UTIMCO)
Foundation of the Year
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Carnegie Hall Foundation
Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto
The Kresge Foundation
MacArthur Foundation
Health Care System of the Year
Ascension Investment Management
Children's Health (Dallas)
Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
Cleveland Clinic
Hartford HealthCare
Insurance Investor of the Year
Axis Capital
Farmers Insurance
MetLife
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co.
Public Plan of the Year, Large
Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board
State of Wisconsin Investment Board
Texas Municipal Retirement System
Utah Retirement Systems
Public Plan of the Year, Small
Employees' Retirement System of Rhode Island
Fire & Police Pension Association of Colorado
Maine Public Employees Retirement System
Orange County Employees Retirement System
HEDGE FUND MANAGEMENT AWARD FINALISTS
Institutional Hedge Fund Manager of the Year
Canyon Partners
Citadel
Millennium Management
TCI Fund Management
Third Point
Emerging Hedge Fund Manager of the Year
EcoR1 Capital
Lunia Capital
Melvin Capital Management
SQN Investors
Suvretta Capital Management
Large Fund-of-Hedge-Funds Manager of the Year
Blackstone Group
K2 Advisors
Morgan Stanley Investment Management
Pacific Alternative Asset Management Co.
Rock Creek Group
Boutique Fund-of-Hedge-Funds Manager of the Year
Gapstow Capital Partners
Greenlight Masters
Ironwood Capital Management
Morgan Creek Capital Management
Silver Creek Capital Management
Outsourced CIO of the Year
Cambridge Associates
Goldman Sachs Asset Management
HighVista Strategies
Partners Capital
Perella Weinberg Partners
Hedge Fund GP Investor of the Year
Blackstone Group
Dyal Capital Partners
Reservoir Capital Group
Paloma Partners
Schonfeld Strategic Advisors
Equity-Focused Hedge Fund Manager of the Year
Coatue Management
Impala Asset Management
Light Street Capital
Perceptive Advisors
Tiger Global Management
Credit-Focused Hedge Fund Manager of the Year
Chatham Asset Management
Marathon Asset Management
Napier Park Global Capital
MidOcean Credit Partners
Silver Point Capital
Hybrid Hedge Fund Manager of the Year
Cerberus Capital Management
Drawbridge Special Opportunities Funds
Valiant Capital Management
Viking Global Opportunities
Vivo Capital
Multistrategy Hedge Fund Manager of the Year
Canyon Partners
Citadel
The D. E. Shaw Group
Elliott Management Corp.
Millennium Management
Relative-Value Hedge Fund Manager of the Year
Citadel Global Fixed Income Fund
One William Street Capital Management
Paloma Partners
Pimco Tactical Opportunities Fund
Waterfall Asset Management
Activist Hedge Fund Manager of the Year
Marcato Capital Management
Starboard Value
TCI Fund Management
Toscafund Asset Management
ValueAct Capital Management
Event-Driven Hedge Fund Manager of the Year
Elliott Management
Gates Capital Management
Owl Creek Asset Management
P. Schoenfeld Asset Management
Strategic Value Partners
Macro Hedge Fund Manager of the Year
Element Capital Management
Emso Asset Management
Haidar Capital Management
Massar Capital Management
Pharo Management
Quantitative Hedge Fund Manager of the Year
The D. E. Shaw Group
Man AHL Evolution
PDT Partners
Renaissance Technologies
Two Sigma
HONOREES
Manager Lifetime Achievement Award
M. Elaine Crocker
President, Moore Capital Management
Allocator Lifetime Achievement Award
David Villa
Chief Investment Officer, State of Wisconsin Investment Board
RISING STARS
Angela Aldrich
Teca Partners
Steven Boyd
Armistice Capital
Sarah Carne
Future Fund Management Agency (Australia)
Charmaine Chin
K2 Advisors
Lawrence Cinamon
Aksia
Julie Hong Clayton
TPG Capital
Jesse Cohn
Elliott Management
Lucy DeStefano
Soros Fund Management
Andy Frank
Fortress Investment Group
Jamil French
Rainmaker Securities
Ryan Israel
Pershing Square Capital Management
Lauren Jacobson
Columbia Investment Management Company
Brian Jandrucko
The Church Pension Fund
Jay Kahn
Light Street Capital
Ela Karahasanoglu
Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO)
Jane Kim
Canyon Partners
Woodrow Levin
3.0 Capital
Amish Mehta
SQN Investors
Darrel Pfeifauf
Summit Strategies Group
Li Ran
Half Sky Capital
David Rosen
Rubric Capital Management
Josh Segal
Paloma Partners
Sheetal Sharma
Tourbillon Capital Partners
Ed Shim
Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois
Noah Snyder
Incline Global
Jamie Sterne
Skye Global Management
Jet Theriac
Lanternback Capital
Justin Udelhofen
Durant Partners
Keith Weiner
Suvretta Capital Management
Chris Winiarz
Lakeview Capital Management
Institutional Investor begins the voting process with a public call for nominations; the editorial staff concurrently develops a list of candidates based on its knowledge of the firms and institutions, as well as on discussions with its wide network of industry sources. The staff then vets each of the nominations, as well as its internally generated candidates, based on how strongly it believes the candidates meet a wide range of criteria for their respective categories. The staff puts particular emphasis on performance over the past three years, with special consideration given to the most recent year. Once the nominees are publicly announced, the magazine group then conducts a wide survey of U.S. institutional investors and invites them to vote for the manager nominees. Hedge fund managers are also invited to vote for the investor nominees. Institutional Investor's editorial staff analyzes the results of the voting to determine the winners, which are announced at the annual awards dinner and ceremony.
Voting on the finalists will be open from May 7–18, 2018. If you would like to request a ballot, please email: hedgefundawards@institutionalinvestor.com.