It gives me great pleasure to provide a foreword for this year’s Hedgeweek US Awards report, in which we showcase some of the industry’s award-winning service providers. This year, we took a detailed methodological approach to selecting our fund manager
Imagine Software: Best Risk Management Software Firm – Imagine Software has a 26-year track record for transforming challenges into opportunities for growth and development. Over the past few years, Imagine re-architected its award-winning risk engine and introduced massive parallelisation across a
Opus Fund Services: Best Hedgefund Administrator for Start-Up and Emerging Funds – Championing growth and development both internally and externally, Opus is making big moves to close out 2019 and head into the coming year with vigour. Opus’ expansion of operations
SS&C Advent: Best Managed Account Platform Technology Firm – Alternative managed accounts have become increasingly popular with institutional investors over the past decade, and Geneva is among the first platforms that enabled fund managers and administrators to service this market at
Agecroft Partners: Best Third Party Marketing Firm – In order to attract high quality hedge funds and help grow their assets, a hedge fund consulting and marketing firm needs to nurture its reputation for having strong investment knowledge, being ethical and
One of the prevailing thoughts among the hedge fund community at this year’s Hedgeweek USA awards in New York, which took place on 20 September, was the expectation that volatility was steadily making a comeback. As many will know, volatile markets
Founded by Troy Buckner, NuWave Investment Management LLC pursues a unique multi-strategy approach to investing in many of the world’s most liquid markets. Buckner serves as Managing Principal, joined by a staff of 10 professionals, including Yury Orlov, NuWave’s Head
It’s fair to say that Optima Fund Management has seen a lot of change in the hedge fund industry, given that it has celebrated its 30th anniversary in July 2018. Since Dixon Boardman founded the New York-based firm in 1988,
Olga Chernova is founder and CIO of Sancus Capital Management, a credit manager with offices in New York and Los Angeles that she founded in 2009 after a distinguished trading career with JPM, Dillon Read and Goldman Sachs. The firm
Opus Fund Services has enjoyed a number of milestones over the last 12 months. Chief among these were a rapid expansion of its Asian operations, which has helped to significantly improve the timing of daily deliverables. Also the introduction of
