Methodology

HOW WE COMPILED THE RANKINGS

Institutional Investor’s Alpha compiled the 2016 Alpha Awards ranking of top prime brokers, hedge fund administrators, law firms and accounting firms based on voting from last fall and early winter by more than 425 hedge fund firms, including many in the 2015 Hedge Fund 100, our ranking of the world’s 100 largest hedge fund firms.

This year’s survey voter universe was based on hedge fund contacts supplied by Ipreo’s BigDough database of global institutional contacts,...