Ensuring excellence is recognised
For any awards, carrying out fair, consistent, and accurate judging is key to ensuring the true winners are rewarded. To ensure the HFM European Performance Awards deliver this, we have assembled a diverse judging panel comprising of leading CIOs, senior directors and managing directors from allocators and investors. The judges are split into groups depending on their expertise.
The robust judging process is designed to make sure that the Awards recognise and reward the highest achieving hedge funds, CTAs, and funds of hedge funds (FOHFs) in Europe.
Methodology
The HFM European Performance Awards are judged by a panel made up of leading institutional and private investors 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 will also take into consideration the relative AuM, 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 HFM 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 will have an equal weight in choosing the winners in each category they are assigned.
All judges are required to sign a disclaimer form to ensure that information about entries and the final winners remains confidential.