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Hedge Funds Review 20th Anniversary European Performance Awards 2020 Categories
Time period for judging
One-year performance January 1, 2019 – December 31, 2019
Five-year performance January 1, 2015 – December 31, 2019
10-year performance January 1, 2010 – December 31, 2019
20-year performance January 1, 2000 – December 31, 2019
Best new hedge fund/ alternative Ucits/FoHF launched on or after January 1, 2019
Single manager performance awards (over one year)
- Best equity strategy hedge fund (includes market neutral)
- Best fundamental growth/value hedge fund
- Best event driven hedge fund
- Best global macro hedge fund
- Best fixed income/credit/distressed hedge fund
- Best private credit/non-bank lending hedge fund
- Best activist hedge fund
- Best discretionary thematic hedge fund
- Best volatility hedge fund
- Best managed futures/CTA hedge fund
- Best energy/commodities hedge fund
- Best foreign exchange hedge fund
- Best emerging markets focused hedge fund
- Best multi-strategy hedge fund
- Best alternative risk premia hedge fund
- Best AI hedge fund
- Best cryptocurrency/blockchain hedge fund
- Best niche hedge fund
- Best sub-$100m hedge
- Hedge fund of the year (chosen from the above categories excluding sub-$100m)
Emerging manager performance awards (over one year)
- Best equity strategy emerging manager
- Best event driven emerging manager
- Best managed futures/CTA emerging manager
- Best global macro emerging manager (includes FX, emerging markets, commodities and energy)
- Best fixed income/credit emerging manager
- Best private credit/non-bank lending emerging manager
- Best multi-strategy emerging manager
- Best AI hedge fund
- Best cryptocurrency/blockchain hedge fund
- Emerging manager of the year
Single manager long-term performance awards
- Best directional hedge fund over five years
- Best sub-$100m directional hedge fund five years
- Best sub-$100m non-directional hedge fund over five years
- Best non-directional hedge fund over five years
- Best directional hedge fund over 10 years
- Best sub-$100m directional hedge fund over 10 years
- Best sub-$100m non-directional hedge fund over 10 years
- Best non-directional hedge fund over 10 years
- Best directional hedge fund over 20 years
- Best sub-$100m directional hedge fund 20 years
- Best sub-$100m non-directional hedge fund over 20 years
- Best non-directional hedge fund over 20 years
FoHF performance awards (over one year)
- Best equity strategy FoHF
- Best multi-strategy FoHF
- Best emerging markets focused FoHF
- Best fixed income/credit FoHF
- Best global macro FoHF
- Best managed futures/CTA FoHF
- Best emerging manager focused FoHF
- Best private credit/non-bank lending FoHF
- Best cryptocurrency/blockchain FoHF
- Best AI FoHF
- Best niche FoHF
- Best sub-$100m FoHF
- European FoHF of the year (chosen from the above categories excluding sub-$100m)
FoHF long-term awards
- Best specialist FoHF over five years
- Best sub-$100m specialist FoHF over five years
- Best diversified FoHF over five years
- Best sub-$100m diversified FoHF over five years
- Best specialist FoHF over 10 years
- Best sub-$100m specialist FoHF over 10 years
- Best sub-$100m diversified FoHF over 10 years
- Best diversified FoHF over 10 years
- Best specialist FoHF over 20 years
- Best sub-$100m specialist FoHF over 20 years
- Best sub-$100m diversified FoHF over 20 years
- Best diversified FoHF over 20 years
Specialist hedge fund awards
- Best overall hedge fund/fund distribution platform
- Best alternative Ucits distribution platform
- Best institutional investor advisory team
- Best incubator/accelerator/seeder
Qualitative awards (open to both hedge funds and FoHFs)
- Best new hedge fund/FoHF/alternative Ucits (launched by or after January 1, 2019)
- Best investor relations team
- Best ESG/SRI management company
- Best group
- Rising star (hedge fund or FoHF individual)
- Best female fund manager
- Outstanding contribution to the industry by an institutional investor
- Outstanding contribution to the industry (hedge fund/FoHF individual)
- Lifetime achievement (hedge fund/FoHF individual)
Editor’s Choice Awards celebrating 20 years of hedge fund activity in Europe
- Outstanding contribution to promotion of ESG and SRI within hedge fund industry
- Outstanding contribution to research within hedge fund industry
- Editor’s choice hedge fund
- Editor’s choice FoHF
- Editor’s choice individual contribution to hedge fund industry