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The Eurekahedge Global Hedge Fund Awards have been launched with the intent of identifying and celebrating the very best of hedge fund managers in the Americas, Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) and Asia Pacific (APAC) across 45 award categories carefully designed to track key strategic and regional mandates within the global hedge funds industry. In addition to this, we have introduced specialised awards that recognise the performance of new entrants to the industry as well as ‘consistency awards’ for established players that have continued to add value for institutional investors over the years. As a first for the hedge fund industry, the funds are evaluated over the same time period under consideration for all regional awards (Americas, EMEA and APAC) using a consistent methodology that draws on the expertise of our judges who have extensive years of experience allocating institutional money to hedge funds across the globe.

The table below provides an overview of the median performance statistics of the award nominees this year, compared against their peers from their respective regions.

Eurekahedge Global Hedge Fund Awards – Americas Region

The following table provides the winners of the 15 hedge fund awards for the Americas region.

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Figure 1 illustrates the performance of an equal-weighted custom index comprising all of the 109 Americas hedge fund award nominees across the 15 categories shown in Table 2. The award nominees of the Americas region have returned 9.60% per annum since December 2013 through April 2019, outperforming the Eurekahedge North American Hedge Fund Index which has generated an annualised return of 4.93% over the same period.

Figure 1: Americas Hedge Fund Award nominees’ 2019 performance

Eurekahedge Global Hedge Fund Awards - Europe, Middle-East & Africa Region

In Table 3 the winners of the 15 hedge fund awards for the Europe, Middle-East & Africa region are listed.

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Figure 2 illustrates the performance of an equal-weighted custom index comprising all of the 81 Europe, Middle-East & Africa hedge fund award nominees across the 15 categories shown in Table 3. The award nominees of the Europe, Middle-East & Africa region have returned 9.63% per annum since December 2013 through April 2019, outperforming the Eurekahedge European Hedge Fund Index which has generated an annualised return of 2.29% over the same period.

Figure 2: Europe, Middle-East & Africa Hedge Fund Award nominees’ 2019 performance

Eurekahedge Global Hedge Fund Awards - Asia Pacific region

Table 4 provides the winners of the 15 hedge fund awards for the Asia Pacific region.

Figure 3 illustrates the performance of an equal-weighted custom index comprising all of the 60 Asia Pacific hedge fund award nominees across the fifteen categories shown in Table 4. The award nominees of the Asia Pacific region have returned 10.57% per annum since December 2013 through April 2019, outperforming the Eurekahedge Asian Hedge Fund Index which has generated an annualised return of 5.10% over the same period.

Figure 3: Asia Pacific Hedge Fund Award nominees’ 2019 performance

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