Ensuring excellence is rewarded
For any awards, carrying out fair, consistent, and accurate judging is key to ensuring the true winners are rewarded. To ensure the HFM US Performance Awards deliver this, we have assembled a diverse judging panel comprising of leading CIOs, senior directors and managing directors from allocators and consultants. The judges are split into groups depending on their expertise.
The robust judging process is designed to make sure that the Awards recognize and reward the highest achieving hedge funds, CTAs, and funds of hedge funds (FoHFs) in North America.
Methodology
The With Intelligence HFM US Performance Awards are judged by a panel made up of leading institutional and private consultants and investment consultants.
Judges focus on absolute performance as well as standard deviation of returns and outperformance of the relevant With Intelligence benchmark index. They also take into consideration the relative AUM, 1, 3 and 5-year track-records, nature of the investment strategy, other supporting materials and professional knowledge they have about shortlisted funds to come to their decisions.
This methodology aims to reflect how institutional investors assess hedge fund performance in their allocation decisions in the real world.
The judges and With Intelligence staff have discretionary power to move submissions into alternative categories that they believe to be more suitable, or to disqualify entries.
Each member of the judging panel has an equal weight in choosing the winners in each category they are assigned.
Please note: All judges are required to sign a disclaimer form to ensure that information about entries and the final winners remain confidential.