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!
6:30 pm Cocktail Reception
7:30 pm Awards Dinner & Ceremony
HEDGE FUND ALLOCATOR AWARDS
Sovereign Wealth Fund of the Year Winner:
Alaska Permanent Fund Corp.
Finalists:
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 Winner:
Gregory Dowling, Fund Evaluation Group
Finalists:
Jim Vos, Aksia
John Claisse, Albourne Partners
Michael Larsen, Cambridge Associates
Stephen Nesbitt, Cliffwater
Corporate Plan of the Year Winner:
Boeing Co.
Finalists:
IBM Corp.
Michelin Group
Raytheon Co.
Western Union Co.
Endowment of the Year Winner:
University of Texas Investment Management Co. (UTIMCO)
Finalists:
The J. Paul Getty Trust
Northwestern University
Penn State Office of Investment Management
Texas Tech University System
Foundation of the Year Winner:
MacArthur Foundation
Finalists:
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Carnegie Hall Foundation
Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto
The Kresge Foundation
Health Care System of the Year Winner:
Children's Health (Dallas)
Finalists:
Ascension Investment Management
Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
Cleveland Clinic
Hartford HealthCare
Insurance Investor of the Year Winner:
MetLife
Finalists:
Axis Capital
Farmers Insurance
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co.
Public Plan of the Year, Large Winner:
Texas Municipal Retirement System
Finalists:
Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board
State of Wisconsin Investment Board
Utah Retirement Systems
Public Plan of the Year, Small Winner:
Orange County Employees Retirement System
Finalists:
Employees' Retirement System of Rhode Island
Fire & Police Pension Association of Colorado
Maine Public Employees Retirement System
HEDGE FUND MANAGEMENT AWARDS
Institutional Hedge Fund Manager of the Year Winner:
Third Point
Finalists:
Canyon Partners
Citadel
Millennium Management
TCI Fund Management
Emerging Hedge Fund Manager of the Year Winner:
Suvretta Capital Management
Finalists:
EcoR1 Capital
Lunia Capital
Melvin Capital Management
SQN Investors
Large Fund-of-Hedge-Funds Manager of the Year Winner:
Blackstone Group
Finalists:
Franklin Templeton Investments
Morgan Stanley Investment Management
PAAMCO
Rock Creek Group
Boutique Fund-of-Hedge-Funds Manager of the Year Winner:
Silver Creek Capital Management
Finalists:
Gapstow Capital Partners
Greenlight Masters
Ironwood Capital Management
Morgan Creek Capital Management
Outsourced CIO of the Year Winner:
Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Finalists:
Cambridge Associates
HighVista Strategies
Partners Capital
Perella Weinberg Partners
Hedge Fund GP Investor of the Year Winner:
Blackstone Group
Finalists:
Dyal Capital Partners
Reservoir Capital Group
Paloma Partners
Schonfeld Strategic Advisors
Equity-Focused Hedge Fund Manager of the Year Winner:
Tiger Global Management
Finalists:
Coatue Management
Impala Asset Management
Light Street Capital
Perceptive Advisors
Credit-Focused Hedge Fund Manager of the Year Winner:
Napier Park Global Capital
Finalists:
Chatham Asset Management
Marathon Asset Management
MidOcean Credit Partners
Silver Point Capital
Hybrid Hedge Fund Manager of the Year Winner:
Viking Global Opportunities
Finalists:
Cerberus Capital Management
Drawbridge Special Opportunities Funds
Valiant Capital Management
Vivo Capital
Multistrategy Hedge Fund Manager of the Year Winner:
Elliott Management Corp.
Finalists:
Canyon Partners
Citadel
The D. E. Shaw Group
Millennium Management
Relative-Value Hedge Fund Manager of the Year Winner:
One William Street Capital Management
Finalists:
Citadel Global Fixed Income Fund
Paloma Partners
Pimco Tactical Opportunities Fund
Waterfall Asset Management
Activist Hedge Fund Manager of the Year Winner:
TCI Fund Management
Finalists:
Marcato Capital Management
Starboard Value
Toscafund Asset Management
ValueAct Capital Management
Event-Driven Hedge Fund Manager of the Year Winner:
Elliott Management
Finalists:
Gates Capital Management
Owl Creek Asset Management
P. Schoenfeld Asset Management
Strategic Value Partners
Macro Hedge Fund Manager of the Year Winner:
Pharo Management
Finalists:
Element Capital Management
Emso Asset Management
Haidar Capital Management
Massar Capital Management
Quantitative Hedge Fund Manager of the Year Winner:
Renaissance Technologies
Finalists:
The D. E. Shaw Group
Man AHL Evolution
PDT Partners
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.