Award nominees were honored and winners were announced and awarded at a dinner and awards ceremony at the Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on Monday, June 20, 2011. We hope you'll be a part of next year's night of networking and celebration!

Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Bruce Kovner, Founder and Chairman, Caxton Associates	Outstanding Contribution Award Recipient Jeffrey Scott, Chief Investment Officer, Alaska Permanent Fund Corp.
Hedge Fund Management Award Categories & Nominees
Institutional Hedge Fund Firm of the Year Appaloosa Management -WINNER BlackRock Bridgewater Associates CQS Paulson & Co. Emerging Hedge Fund Firm of the Year Astenbeck Capital Management Grant Capital Partners Hutchin Hill Capital -WINNER Senrigan Capital Group Stelliam Investment Management Credit-Focused Hedge Fund Firm of the Year Appaloosa Management Centerbridge Partners Fortress Investment Group -WINNER Marathon Asset Management VR Capital Group Equity-Focused Hedge Fund Firm of the Year Glenview Capital Management -WINNER NorthStar Capital Funds Omega Advisors SAC Capital Advisors Visium Asset Management Event-Driven Hedge Fund Firm of the Year Paulson & Co. Perry Capital Pershing Square Capital Management Third Point -WINNER ValueAct Capital Macro-Focused Hedge Fund Firm of the Year AQR Capital Management BlueCrest Capital Management BlueGold Capital Management Bridgewater Associates -WINNER BTG Pactual	Multistrategy Hedge Fund Firm of the Year Carlson Capital Hudson Bay Capital Management Millennium Management -WINNER Och-Ziff Capital Management Group Whitebox Advisors Relative Value Hedge Fund Firm of the Year BlueMountain Capital Management Capula Investment Management -WINNER Lazard Asset Management Saba Capital Management Structured Portfolio Management Large Fund of Hedge Funds Firm of the Year Blackstone Group J.P. Morgan Alternative Asset Management Prisma Capital Partners -WINNER Edmond de Rothschild Holding SA SkyBridge Capital Small Fund of Hedge Funds Firm of the Year Dorchester Capital Advisors Magnitude Capital PineBridge Investments -WINNER Signet Group Van Biema Value Partners Hedge Fund Seeder Firm of the Year Blackstone Group -WINNER FRM Capital Advisors PioneerPath Capital Protégé Partners Tiger Management Corp.
Hedge Fund Investor Award Categories & Nominees
Large Corporate Plan of the Year AT&T Investment Management Corp. Boeing Co. -WINNER General Motors Asset Management Corp. Lockheed Martin Investment Management Co. Small Corporate Plan of the Year Alcoa Cargill International Paper Co. -WINNER Royal Bank of Canada Large Endowment or Foundation of the Year DUMAC KAUST Investment Management Co. Ohio State University University of Texas Investment Management Co. -WINNER Small Endowment or Foundation of the Year Cook Children’s Health Care System -WINNER Museum of Modern Art New York University School of Law Vassar College	Large Public Plan of the Year California Public Employees’ Retirement System Public School and Education Employee Retirement Systems of Missouri Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System -WINNER Teacher Retirement System of Texas Small Public Plan of the Year Public Safety Personnel Retirement System of the State of Arizona Missouri Department of Transportation and Highway Patrol Employees’ Retirement System San Bernardino County Employees’ Retirement Association San Diego County Employees Retirement Association -WINNER Family Office of the Year Cooper Family Office Fuqua Capital Corp. Mount Vernon Investments -WINNER Willett Advisors Hedge Fund Consultant of the Year James Mnookin, Cambridge Associates -WINNER Stephen Nesbitt, Cliffwater John Shearman, Albourne America James Vos, Aksia
The 2011 Hedge Fund Rising Stars have been announced!

An Emmy, Peabody, Dupont, Loeb award winner and New York Times bestselling author, David Faber is host of CNBC’s “The Strategy Session” (M-F, 12PM ET). Faber is also an anchor and co-producer of CNBC’s acclaimed original documentaries and long-form programming as well as a contributor to CNBC’s Squawk on the Street (M-F 9-11AM ET). For more information on David Faber, please click here.

The awards dinner is held in conjunction with Institutional Investor Conferences’ Hedge Fund Investor Symposium, June 21-22, 2011, in New York.

Investors and consultants are invited to attend the awards dinner as guests of awards sponsors. For more information or to confirm your attendance please contact:
Viena Margulies, 212-224-3971, vmargulies@iiconferences.com

For information on sponsoring or attending these awards, please contact:
Tracey Redmond, 212-224-3239, tredmond@iinvestor.net or
Lynn Quealy, +44 20 7303 1744, lquealy@iilondon.com.