II Announces Hedge Fund Award Winners

New York State Common, San Bernardino County, Highbridge, 1798 Global Among The Winners Of Institutional Investor’s 8th Annual Hedge Fund Award

Institutional Investor magazine hosted the 8th Annual Hedge Fund Industry Awards on Monday evening, June 21. Over 550 hedge fund executives, institutional investors and industry professionals attended the dinner, held at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York. Tiger Management Corp. founder Julian Robertson Jr. was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award in recogntion of his three-decade-long career in the hedge fund industry. Boston Provident Partners founder and chairman of the New Jersey State Investment Council Orin Kramer was the Outstanding Contribution honoree for his work with the New Jersey pension system, as well as for his broader contribution to the public pension fund community. Winners of the Hedge Fund Industry awards included New York State Common Retirement Fund, which was named Large Public Plan of the Year, and Highbridge Capital Management, which took home the prize as Institutional Hedge Fund Firm of the Year. A complete list of this year’s winners follows:

Large Public Plan of the Year

New York State Common Retirement Fund

Large Endowment or Foundation of the Year

J. Paul Getty Trust

Large Corporate Plan of the Year

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United Parcel Service

Small Corporate Plan of the Year

Allstate Corp.

Small Public Plan of the Year

San Bernardino County Employees’ Retirement Association

Small Endowment or Foundation of the Year

Bowdoin College

Family Office of the Year

Koffler Group

Hedge Fund Consultant of the Year

Jim Vos

Institutional Hedge Fund Firm of the Year

Highbridge Capital Management

Emerging Hedge Fund Firm of the Year

1798 Global Partners

Equity-Focused Hedge Fund Firm of the Year

Pershing Square Capital Management

Credit-Focused Hedge Fund Firm of the Year

Avenue Capital Group

Macro-Focused Hedge Fund Firm of the Year

BlueCrest Capital Management

Multistrategy Hedge Fund Firm of the Year

Hudson Bay Capital Management

Relative Value Hedge Fund Firm of the Year

CQS

Large Fund-of-Hedge-Funds Firm of the Year

Blackstone Alternative Asset Management

Small Fund-of-Hedge-Funds Firm of the Year

Magnitude Capital

Hedge Fund Seeder Firm of the Year

SkyBridge Capital

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