Institutional Asset Management Awards 2019 | Pageant Media Ltd | 28 August 2019 | Metropolitan Club, E 60th St, New York, NY 10022, USA

The Institutional Asset Management Awards, in association with Pension Bridge, is the most prestigious awards program of its kind in North America. With a independent and rigorous judging process, winning an IAMA will directly lead to new allocations, improved inflows, and greater recognition from the institutional investment world.

A revitalised awards program that will recognize and reward the institutional asset management industry for performance and excellence across various strategies, enabling asset managers to benchmark and prove themselves against their competition. Using a brand new quantitative and qualitative judging methodology, heavily researched with our advisory board and the market to ensure the metrics and weightings are reflective of investment decisions being made by CIO’s.

The fund categories are open to any funds that have institutional investors, including, but not limited to, SMAs.

The judging will be 2-stage. The first stage will use purely the quantitative elements to derive leader boards from the entries. These leader boards will inform and populate the shortlists for each category, who will go through to the second stage of judging where a panel of independent and impartial judges from Institutional Investors and Consultants will ensure firstly that the data is correct and will use their knowledge and the qualitative elements of the entry process to decide on the winners by category.

The awards are split into 4 category groups, with 2 sets of fund performance categories, consultant categories and investor categories.

Award Categories:

Fund Performance Category Mix 1: Fixed Income:
• Active Global Fixed Income strategy of the year
• Active US Fixed Income Strategy of the year
• Emerging Markets Fixed Income Strategy of the year
• High Yield Fixed Income Strategy of the year
• New Fixed Income Strategy of the year (1 year metrics only)
• Passive Fixed Income Strategy of the year

Fund Performance Category Mix 1: Hedge Funds:
• Credit-Focused Strategy of the year
• Long/Short Strategy of the year
• Quant/systematic Strategy of the year

Fund Performance Category Mix 1: Equities:
• Active US Equity Strategy of the year
• Active Global Equity Strategy of the year

Fund Performance Category Mix 1: Other:
• ESG strategy of the year
• Liquid Alternatives Strategy of the year
• Multi-Asset Class Strategy of the year

Fund Performance Category Mix 2: Private Equity:
• Buyout Strategy of the year
• Venture Capital Strategy of the year
• Secondary Strategy of the year

Fund Performance Category Mix 2: Real Estate:
• Core Strategy of the year
• Core-Plus Strategy of the year
• Debt Strategy of the year

Fund Performance Category Mix 2: Other:
• Infrastructure Strategy of the year
• Private Debt Strategy of the year

Advisory/OCIO Categories:
• General Investment Consultant of the year (AuA over $20BN)
• General Investment Consultant of the year (AuA under $20BN)
• Hedge Fund Investment Consultant of the year
• Real Assets Investment Consultant of the year
• Private Markets Investment Consultant of the year
• OCIO of the year

Investor Categories:
• Pension fund of the year over $1BN
• Pension of the year under $1BN
• Non-Profit fund of the year over $1BN
• Non-Profit fund of the year under $1BN
• CIO of the year