{"id":43245,"date":"2014-07-25T08:19:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T12:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=43245"},"modified":"2014-07-25T08:20:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T12:20:59","slug":"multi-strategy-funds-win-big-at-the-hedge-funds-review-americas-awards-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2014\/multi-strategy-funds-win-big-at-the-hedge-funds-review-americas-awards-2014.html","title":{"rendered":"Multi-Strategy Funds Win Big At The Hedge Funds Review Americas Awards 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Hedge Funds Review and partner BarclayHedge have announced the winners of this years “Hedge Funds Review Americas Awards 2014.”<\/p>\n

Multi-strategy hedge funds were the big winners at the\u00a0Hedge Funds Review<\/em>\u00a0Americas Awards, with Whitebox Advisors named ‘Best overall hedge fund group’ and Millennium Management winning ‘Hedge fund of the year’.<\/p>\n

Millennium also picked up awards for ‘Best multi-strategy hedge fund’ and ‘Best non-directional hedge fund over 10 years’.<\/p>\n

The Whitebox Credit Arbitrage fund was named ‘Best arbitrage hedge fund’. Other winners included: Glenview Capital Management, which won ‘Best long\/short equity hedge fund’; P. Schoenfeld Asset Management, for ‘Best event driven hedge fund’; and Deer Park Road Corporation, which snagged the ‘Best fixed income\/credit hedge fund’ award.<\/p>\n

Element Capital Management won ‘Best global macro hedge fund’ and Venor Capital Management was named ‘Best distressed hedge fund’.<\/p>\n

Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners was the big winner in the fund-of-hedge-funds categories, winning ‘Best overall fund of hedge funds group’, ‘Best bespoke fund of hedge funds provider’ and ‘Best diversified fund of hedge funds over three years’.<\/p>\n

Lighthouse Investment Partners won the awards for the ‘Fund of hedge funds of the year’ and the ‘Best diversified fund of hedge funds over one year’.<\/p>\n

The members of the panel were: Lionel Erdely, head of hedge funds at Investcorp; Frank Frecentese, global head of hedge fund research at Lyxor Asset Management; Deepak Gurnani, founder of ARP Investments; Hiroshi Harada, managing director at Lighthouse Investment Partners; Samantha Levenstein, portfolio adviser at Aksia; and Stefan Zellmer, chief investment officer of Burnham Alternative Investments.<\/p>\n

Stuart Macdonald, managing director at Aquila Capital, and Tushar Patel, managing director at HFIM, provided their insight in judging the funds-of-hedge-funds awards.<\/p>\n

The judging panel considers the results of the quantitative analysis and selects a winner in each category. In selecting the winning fund, the judges take into account the quantitative analysis as well as their qualitative experience and expertise.<\/p>\n

Hedge Funds Review Americas Awards 2014 winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

Performance awards (one year)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Best long\/short equity hedge fund
\nGlenview Capital Opportunity Fund (Glenview Capital Management)<\/p>\n

Best equity market neutral hedge fund
\nTwo Sigma Absolute Return Fund (Two Sigma Investments)<\/p>\n

Best fixed income\/credit hedge fund
\nSTS Partners Fund (Deer Park Road Corporation)<\/p>\n

Best event driven hedge fund
\nPSAM WorldArb Partners (P. Schoenfeld Asset Management)<\/p>\n

Best distressed hedge fund
\nVenor Capital Partners (Venor Capital Management)<\/p>\n

Best global macro hedge fund
\nElement Capital Fund (Element Capital Management)<\/p>\n

Best CTA\/managed futures fund
\nConquest Macro (Conquest Capital Group)<\/p>\n

Best emerging markets hedge fund
\nEverest Capital Frontier Markets (Everest Capital)<\/p>\n

Best multi-strategy hedge fund
\nMillennium USA (Millennium Management)<\/p>\n

Best arbitrage hedge fund
\nWhitebox Credit Arbitrage (Whitebox Advisors)<\/p>\n

Hedge fund of the year
\nMillennium USA (Millennium Management)<\/p>\n

Emerging manager performance awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Best equity hedge emerging manager
\nAnchor Bolt Capital<\/p>\n

Best event driven emerging manager
\nPyrrho Capital Management<\/p>\n

Best global macro\/CTA emerging manager
\nTrend Capital Management<\/p>\n

Best fixed income\/credit emerging manager
\nTIG Securitized Asset Fund<\/p>\n

Emerging manager of the year
\nAnchor Bolt Capital<\/p>\n

Long term performance awards\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Best directional hedge fund over three years
\nSTS Partners Fund (Deer Park Road Corporation)<\/p>\n

Best directional hedge fund over 10 years
\nLyxor\/Bay Resource Partners (GMT Capital)<\/p>\n

Best non-directional hedge fund over three years
\nCitadel Wellington (Citadel)<\/p>\n

Best non-directional hedge fund over 10 years
\nMillennium USA (Millennium Management)<\/p>\n

Fund of hedge funds performance awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Best diversified fund of hedge funds over one year
\nLighthouse Diversified Fund (Lighthouse Investment Partners)<\/p>\n

Best diversified fund of hedge funds over three years
\nMorgan Stanley Opportunistic Fund (Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners)<\/p>\n

Best diversified fund of hedge funds over 10 years
\nLegion Strategies (SkyBridge Capital)<\/p>\n

Best specialist fund of hedge funds over one year
\nBenchmark Plus Long-Short Partners Real Equity Fund (Benchmark Plus Management)<\/p>\n

Best specialist fund of hedge funds over three years
\nMorrocroft Special Opportunity Fund II (Gorelick Brothers Capital)<\/p>\n

Best specialist fund of hedge funds over 10 years
\nPinnacle Natural Resources (Pinnacle Asset Management)<\/p>\n

Fund of hedge funds of the year
\nLighthouse Diversified Fund (Lighthouse Investment Partners)<\/p>\n

Qualitative awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Best new hedge fund
\nRoystone Capital Management<\/p>\n

Most innovative hedge fund
\nEaglewood Capital Management<\/p>\n

Best investor relations team
\nBridgewater Associates<\/p>\n

Best overall hedge fund group
\nWhitebox Advisors<\/p>\n

Best overall fund of hedge funds group
\nMorgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners<\/p>\n

Best bespoke fund of hedge funds provider
\nMorgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners<\/p>\n

Best fund of hedge funds advisory team
\nGoldman Sachs Asset Management<\/p>\n

Outstanding contribution to the hedge fund industry by an institution
\nHarvard Management Company<\/p>\n

Lifetime achievement in the hedge fund industry
\nWilliam Michaelcheck (Mariner Investment Group)<\/p>\n

The awards,\u00a0announced at a cocktail reception in New York City on July 24,\u00a0also highlighted outstanding new talent in the industry, with Trend Capital Management picking up ‘Best global macro emerging manager’ and Pyrrho Capital Management bagging the award for the ‘Best event driven emerging manager’. The TIG Securitised Assets Fund was named ‘Best fixed income\/credit emerging manager’. Anchor Bolt Capital won ‘Best equity hedge emerging manager’ and ‘Emerging manager of the year’.<\/p>\n

The event also recognised the Harvard Management Company’s (HMC) outstanding contribution to the hedge fund industry. The award reflects the success of HMC’s approach to investing in hedge funds, which has served as a model for many other institutional investors.<\/p>\n

Bill Michaelcheck, founder and co-chief investment officer of Mariner Investment Group, received an award for his ‘Lifetime achievement in the hedge fund industry’. An ace fixed-income trader turned hedge fund manager, Michaelcheck built Mariner into one of the industry’s most respected firms and has been a mentor to many up-and-coming traders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Hedge Funds Review and partner BarclayHedge have announced the winners of this years “Hedge Funds Review Americas Awards 2014.” Multi-strategy hedge funds were the big winners at the\u00a0Hedge Funds Review\u00a0Americas Awards, with Whitebox Advisors named ‘Best […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43248,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43245\/revisions\/43248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}