Institutional Investor's 17th Annual Hedge Fund Industry Awards recognizes the hedge funds, funds of hedge funds, investment consultants, endowments, foundations, family offices, 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 27, 2019. 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 AWARDS
Public Plan of the Year, Large (more than $15 billion in assets) Winner:
Teacher Retirement System of Texas
Finalists:
Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board
Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System
Oregon State Treasury
Public Employees Retirement Association of New Mexico
State of Wisconsin Investment Board
Teachers’ Retirement System of the State of Illinois
Public Plan of the Year, Small (less than $15 billion in assets) Winner:
San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System
Finalists:
Employees’ Retirement Fund of the City of Dallas
Orange County Employees Retirement System
Police & Fire Department Retirement Plan of the City of San José
Texas County & District Retirement System
Corporate Plan of the Year Winner:
United Parcel Service
Finalists:
AT&T
Boeing
Exelon Corp.
FedEx Co.
Raytheon Co.
Endowment of the Year Winner:
University of Texas Investment Management Co.
Finalists:
Bowdoin College
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Texas Tech University
Villanova University
Yale University
Foundation of the Year Winner:
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Finalists:
Cargill Foundation
Carnegie Corp. of New York
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
Family Office of the Year Winner:
Merrimac Corp.
Finalists:
Crow Holdings
Fremont Group
Kactus Capital Management
Lighthouse Financial Services
Pendyne Capital
Health Care System of the Year Winner:
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Finalists:
BJC HealthCare
Children’s Health (Dallas)
Cleveland Clinic
Hartford HealthCare
Indiana University Health
Outsourced Investor of the Year Winner:
Cambridge Associates
Finalists:
Appomattox Advisory
Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Makena Capital Management
Neuberger Berman
Perella Weinberg Partners
Hedge Fund Consultant of the Year Winner:
Cambridge Associates
Finalists:
Aetos Alternatives Management
Aksia
Albourne Partners
NEPC Investment Consulting
StepStone Group
Sovereign Wealth Fund of the Year Winner:
Texas Permanent School Fund
Finalists:
Alberta Investment Management Corp.
China Investment Corp.
Future Fund (Australia)
Korea Investment Corp.
Queensland Investment Corp.
HEDGE FUND MANAGEMENT AWARDS
Institutional Hedge Fund Manager of the Year Winner:
Bridgewater Associates
Finalists:
Citadel
Millennium Management
Renaissance Technologies
Tiger Global Management
Two Sigma Investments
Emerging Hedge Fund Manager of the Year Winner:
Darsana Capital Partners
Finalists:
EcoR1 Capital
Foxhaven Asset Management
Riposte Capital
Skye Global Management
SQN Investors
Equity-Focused Hedge Fund Manager of the Year Winner:
Tiger Global Management
Finalists:
Cadian Capital Management
Darsana Capital Partners
Deerfield Management
Falcon Edge Capital
Jericho Capital Asset Management
Credit-Focused Hedge Fund Manager of the Year Winner:
Mudrick Capital Management
Finalists:
Drawbridge Special Opportunities (Fortress)
Ellington Management Group
Hildene Capital Management
Selwood Asset Management
Waterfall Asset Management
Multistrategy Hedge Fund of the Year Winner:
The D. E. Shaw Group
Finalists:
Citadel
Millennium Management
Paloma Partners
Schonfeld Strategic Advisors LLC
Tilden Park Capital Management
Activist Hedge Fund Manager of the Year Winner:
TCI Fund Management
Finalists:
P. Schoenfeld Asset Management
P2 Capital Partners
Starboard Value
Trian Fund Management
ValueAct Capital
Event-Driven Hedge Fund Manager of the Year Winner:
Elliott Management
Finalists:
EJF Capital
Omni Partners
Starboard Value
SVPGlobal
Taconic Capital
Macro Hedge Fund Manager of the Year Winner:
Bridgewater Associates
Finalists:
Autonomy Capital
Brevan Howard Capital Management
Caxton Associates
Element Capital Management
Tudor Investment Corp.
Quantitative Hedge Fund Manager of the Year Winner:
Two Sigma
Finalists:
Campbell & Co.
Paloma Partners
PDT Partners
QMS Capital Management
Renaissance Technologies
Liquid Alternative Fund of the Year Winner:
BlackRock Tactical Opportunities Fund
Finalists:
Calamos Market Neutral Income A
Camelot Event-Driven Fund
Catalyst/Millburn Hedge Strategy Fund
BNY Mellon Global Real Return
GMO Special Opportunities VI
HONOREES
Allocator Lifetime Achievement Award
Collette Chilton
Chief Investment Officer, Williams College
Manager Lifetime Achievement Award
John Overdeck and David Siegel
Co-Chairmen, Two Sigma
Rising Stars of Hedge Funds
Seth Birnbaum, Bridgewater Associates
Jonathan Brudnick, Sachem Head Capital Management
William Heard, Heard Capital
Al Kim, Helmsley Charitable Trust
Jennifer Lai, Dalton Investments
Ninon Marapachi, Bank of America
Adam Parker, Center Lake Capital Management
Tess Shih, Capital Fund Management
Brett Swenson, Citadel (Surveyor Capital)
Logan Unland, Parkman Healthcare Partners
Following a public call for nominations, the editorial staff of Institutional Investor selects award nominees based on how strongly candidates — both those put forward via the call for nominations and those independently identified by the editorial staff — meet the criteria for their respective categories. Once the nominees are publicly announced, the group then conducts a wide survey of U.S. institutional investors and invites them to vote for the manager nominees. Hedge fund managers are invited to vote for the allocator nominees. Institutional Investor's editorial staff analyzes the results of the voting to determine the winners, who are announced at the annual awards dinner and ceremony, to be held this year at the Mandarin Oriental in NYC.
Please direct questions regarding the nomination and award selection process to hedgefundawards@institutionalinvestor.com.
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