The nomination or receipt of these awards is not indicative of future performance. GoldenTree did not provide any compensation, directly nor indirectly, in connection with these awards. GoldenTree disclaims any association with the institutions noted above and any rights associated with their respective trademarks. Please see below for further award descriptions, criteria, and methodology.

Acquisition International’s Worldwide Finance Awards aim is to recognize companies and individuals, who have shown themselves to be dedicated and experienced in the finance industry. Acquisition International’s International Finance program conducts research into the most appropriate and praiseworthy winners based on successful business dealings conducted over the last 12 months. To determine winners in the AI Worldwide Finance Awards, the in-house research team carefully examine the information that is available online and in the public domain. Additionally, nominees are provided the opportunity to put together a short case file disclosing details of their chosen business sector and practice, as well as any previous accolades awarded, this will also be used when considering winners in the AI Worldwide Finance Awards. Acquisition International’s awards are based on merit, not the number of votes received, this process works to ensure that we reward parties based on their excellence in the industry, the quality of their products and their dedication to service, rather than size of the company and their popularity.

The PDI Global Awards begins with a nomination process, after which senior team members from PDI will consider these alongside their filed research and outreach to trusted industry leaders to construct the strongest possible shortlists of nominations for each. Each shortlisted comprises four candidates. Submissions are not a prerequisite for entry but are useful for aiding selection committees with their choices. Once determined, voting for the awards begins when the public will have the chance to determine which investors, managers, advisers and individuals deserve to be crowned for their efforts in the past 12 month period.

The European Pensions Awards were launched to give recognition to and honor the investment firms, consultancies and pension providers across Europe that have set the professional standards in order to best serve European pension funds over the past year. The awards are free to enter and open to any pension fund or firm which serves European pension funds.

GlobalCapital’s US Securitization Awards seek to recognize the most notable and innovative deals, banks and market participants. The vast majority of awards were voted on by the market, from shortlists compiled by GlobalCapital’s editorial team. In compiling the shortlists, GlobalCapital received feedback from the market through a survey, and in direct discussions, studied league tables, submissions and other data. Then, GlobalCapital narrowed the lists of credible winners for each category.

HFM/HFMWeek awards are judged by individuals with active experience in the Hedge Fund industry. The judges take part in a conference call, summarize the information, and ultimately select winners after giving all entries full consideration based generally on the performance of an individual fund. This criteria affects the following HFMWeek categories: Relative Value, Credit Long Term over $1Bn, Credit over $1Bn, Event Driven Fund over $250M, Event Driven Fund over $1Bn, and Single Manager Long-Term Over $1Bn. The Management Firm of the Year category is a special accolade given to a firm that has transcended its peer group and is awarded based on brand recognition, growth, performance, innovation, and operational rigor.

The inaugural Hedgeweek & Private Equity Wire US Credit Awards recognise excellence in fund performance and service provider excellence across credit funds. Voting for the awards is conducted via an online poll, where participants are asked to make their choice among the shortlisted firms in each category. The manager categories cover a wide spectrum of credit strategies and fund types, with separate sections for hedge fund and private equity credit specialists. Pre-selection data for the awards is provided by Bloomberg, based on annualised returns over the 12 months from 31st May 2021 to 31st May 2022 by funds in the selected categories.

The annual Private Equity Wire US Awards recognize excellence among private equity fund managers and service providers in the US across a wide range of categories. Voting for the awards is conducted via an online poll of the entire Private Equity Wire userbase, where participants are asked to make their choice among the shortlisted firms in each category. The GP manager categories cover fund performance and fundraising success by firms across a range of private markets investment strategies – including buyout, growth, fund of funds, secondaries, co-investment, debt, real estate and real assets. The pre-selection data for the fund manager shortlisted was provided by Bloomberg. Nominations for all categories are based on annualized performance over a 12-month period from May 31st, 2022 to May 31st, 2023. Nominations in various award categories are further split by size and strategy as specified in the award name.

The Risk.net Hedge fund of the year award, recognises success in alternative investing, with an emphasis on trading orientated strategies. Strong long-term performance is a must, but innovations in structuring, executing and risk-managing complex strategies will also be given due weight. Firms will also be judged on their ability to respond to changing investor needs and market conditions and deliver uncorrelated returns. The judging process for takes three months, from the submission of pitch documents, through dozens of off-the-record meetings, and concludes with a due diligence phase in which clients are canvassed (also off the record) for their views on shortlisted firms. All decisions are made by Risk’s editorial team – and each decision is explained in detail on Risk.net. Unlike the rest of their content, the awards articles are not paywalled and are free to read.

Private Asset Management utilized an independent panel made up of industry experts and criteria based on a mixture of quantitative and qualitative performance indicators to select the winners of the awards. This process applies to the Best Fund Product for High-Net-Worth Clients. Private Debt Investor Awards are nominated by readers and recognize the managers, institutional investors and advisors that have set the benchmark during the year. Voted for by thousands of readers, the Private Debt Awards are the only awards decided solely by the industry for the industry.

The Creditflux fund awards reward performance weighted by volatility relative to a fund’s redemption profile. Funds are entered automatically, provided their returns are listed in Creditflux’s monthly performance listings. CLO performance is assessed based on a combination of six metrics: change in OC cushion, the size and volatility of equity distributions, as well as the weighted averages of rating factor, spread, and price. CLO managers must submit access to trustee reports since inception for their deals, and this data becomes available on Creditflux’s CLO database to ensure full transparency. The Creditflux awards that utilize this methodology included, Best European CLO Redeemed, Best New US CLO, Best US CLO Manager, CLO Manager of the Year, Best CLO Recovery Fund, and Best Mid-Market CLO.

The WealthManagement.com Industry Awards seeks to honor outstanding achievements by companies, organizations and individuals that support financial advisor success. A panel of independent judges from the industry determined the winners. The best in each category were selected based on quantitative measures of their initiatives—such as scope, scale, adoption and feature set—along with qualitative measures, such as innovation, creativity and new methods of delivery.

Institutional Investor’s Annual Hedge Fund Industry Awards recognizes the hedge funds, funds of hedge funds, investment consultants, endowments, foundations, family offices, corporate funds, public funds, sovereign funds and rising stars that stood out for their performance innovation, achievements and contributions to the industry in the past year. Following a public call for nominations, the editorial staff of Institutional Investor selects award nominees based on how strongly candidates — both those put forward via the call for nominations and those independently identified by the editorial staff — meet the criteria for their respective categories. Once the nominees are publicly announced, the group then conducts a wide survey of U.S. institutional investors and invites them to vote for the manager nominees. Hedge fund managers are invited to vote for the allocator nominees. Institutional Investor’s editorial staff analyzes the results of the voting to determine the winners.

Categories for the DealCatalyst awards were confirmed as of October 26th, 2022. These categories are unlikely to change but categories may be adjusted, removed, or added, in line with market feedback in the build-up to the voting process in February 2023. All respondents were from LSTA member organizations. A nomination phase was open for three weeks in mid-November, to generate short lists of deal categories for inclusion in the voting phase.  The final voting phase ran for four weeks from February 2023 to generate the winners of the awards for all categories.

CFI.co Awards: The CFI.co award selection panel is using a wide range of criteria to help it reach informed decisions regarding the awards, lending the critical eye of a collective 170 years of business journalism, corporate leadership and academia to the exhaustive information gathered by the award body’s own research team. Alternative Investment is defined in the broadest sense (and in contrast to traditional long stocks and bonds) and includes different asset classes such as (but not limited to) private equity, direct investing, venture capital, real estate, hedge funds, commodities, fixed income and currency derivatives. Some of the more important factors taken into consideration are as follows: Experience and excellence of investment management team; Investment track record in alternative assets; Value creation and alpha generation; Risk management; Correlation to traditional assets, such as portfolios of exchange-traded stocks and bonds; Good corporate governance; Transparency and investor communication; and Quality of nominations.

The Korea Economic Daily selects and awards the highest performing asset managers based on a comprehensive survey of the asset owners in Korea including pensions, sovereign wealth funds, mutual aids, insurance companies as well as major banks. The respondents, were asked to pick the best GPs for each of private equity, private debt, real estate, infrastructure and hedge funds in terms of performance, communication and client services.

GrowthCap’s awards process for the Top Private Debt Firms, based on nomination submissions and further in-depth research, attempts to capture a more holistic view of firms and not simply firms listed by assets under management and/or returns, as those metrics oftentimes do not indicate to a company CEO and management team how good of a partner that firm will be to the company and its long-term success. Strong private debt firms possess a combination of attributes ranging from deep analytical rigor to the cultivation of meritocratic and collaborative firm cultures to the earned respect of some of the most sophisticated corporate borrowers.

The Pensions Age Awards aim to reward both the pension schemes and the pension providers across the UK that have proved themselves worthy of recognition in these increasingly challenging economic times. The awards are open to any UK pension scheme or provider firm which serves pension schemes in the UK.

GlobalCapital’s awards research team works to identify the standout players from across the derivatives market. Following a submission process, as well as their own independent research and consultation with the market, they determine the shortlist for the 2024 Global Derivatives Awards. Winners will be determined following a pitch process. When selecting winner’s judges look for examples of innovation, growth and work to improve the derivatives industry, as well as extraordinary effort on behalf of clients.