Paul Singer, Founder and CEO of Elliott Mgmt Corp., and Afsaneh Beschloss, Founder and CEO of Rock Creek Group, Honored; Manager and Investor Winners Announced and Rising Stars Honored at Institutional Investor's 14th Annual Hedge Fund Industry Awards

/EINPresswire.com/ -- NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwired) -- 06/28/16 -- On Thursday, June 23, 2016, Institutional Investor hosted the 14th Annual Hedge Fund Industry Awards dinner and ceremony at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City. CNBC's Tyler Mathisen emceed the event, attended by more than 500 industry leaders.

The 14th Annual Hedge Fund Industry Awards recognized the hedge funds, funds of hedge funds, investment consultants, endowments, foundations, family offices, corporate funds, sovereign funds and public funds that stood out in 2015 for their innovation, achievement and contribution to the industry. The awards also honored the Hedge Fund Rising Stars of 2016 - 30 individuals whose accomplishments in, and contributions to, the industry make them unique among their peers and position them as future leaders.

Investment Management Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
Paul Singer, founder and CEO, Elliott Mgmt Corp.

Institutional Investor Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
Afsaneh Beschloss, founder and CEO, Rock Creek Group

2016 Hedge Fund Investment Management Winners
Activist Hedge Fund Manager of the Year - Sachem Head Capital Mgmt
Boutique Fund-of-Hedge-Funds Manager of the Year - Magnitude Capital
Credit-Focused Hedge Fund Manager of the Year - Napier Park Global Capital
Early-Stage Hedge Fund Investor of the Year - Paloma Partners
Emerging Hedge Fund Manager of the Year - Graticule Asset Mgmt Asia
Equity-Focused Hedge Fund Manager of the Year - TCI Fund Mgmt
Event-Driven Hedge Fund Manager of the Year - Beach Point Capital Mgmt
Hybrid Hedge Fund Manager of the Year - Fortress Investment Group
Institutional Hedge Fund Manager of the Year - The D.E. Shaw Group
Large Fund-of-Hedge-Funds Manager of the Year - Corbin Capital Partners
Long-Only Equity Hedge Fund Manager of the Year - Maverick Capital
Macro Hedge Fund Manager of the Year - Element Capital Mgmt
Multistrategy Hedge Fund Manager of the Year - Citadel
Quantitative Hedge Fund Manager of the Year - Two Sigma Investments
Relative-Value Hedge Fund Manager of the Year - Capula Investment Mgmt

2016 Hedge Fund Institutional Investor Winners
Corporate Plan of the Year - IBM
Endowment of the Year - UNC Mgmt Co.
Family Office of the Year - Willett Advisors
Foundation of the Year - Smithsonian Institution
Health Care System of the Year - Cook Children's Health Care System
Hedge Fund Consultant of the Year - Bruce Ruehl, Aksia
Outsourced CIO of the Year - Appomattox Advisory
Public Plan of the Year, Large - Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Mgmt Board
Public Plan of the Year, Small - West Virginia Investment Mgmt Board
Sovereign Wealth Fund of the Year - Government of Singapore Investment Corp.

2016 Hedge Fund Rising Stars
Jessye Ball, Millennium Mgmt
Sarah Berner, Aristeia Capital
Jenna Bussman-Wise, AIG Investments
Maureen Chang, Point72 Asset Mgmt
Dennis Chenfu, Pershing
Charles Dufresne Jr., Sciens Capital Mgmt
William Freda, Graticule Asset Management
Samantha Greenberg, Margate Capital
Mark Gurevich, Ropes & Gray
Tal Gurion, Mariner Glen Oaks
Craig Huie, Office of the Treasurer of the Regents, University of California
Yusef Kassim, Blue Harbour Group
Florian Kronawitter, White Square Capital
Vikram Kumar, TT International
Brandon Levin, Jana Partners
Jonathan Levin, Weiss Multi-Strategy LLC.
Brett Minarik, Aksia
Ian Monroe, Etho Capital
Jason Morrow, Utah Retirement Systems
Pierre-Adrien Nicolas, Squarepoint Capital
Jamie Pabst, Green Owl Capital Mgmt
Parag Pande, Blackstone
Agata Praczuk, MetLife
Max Saffian, Fortress Investment Group
Matt Satnick, MSD Partners
Eric Singer, Viex Capital
Katina Stefanova, Marto Capital
Reginald Tucker, New York State Common Retirement Fund
Michael Wang, Cypress Funds
Sean Wygovsky, Polar Asset Mgmt Partners

State Street is the 2016 Awards Dinner and Ceremony Sponsor. Other lead sponsors include Deloitte and Pershing Prime Services.

Please visit www.HedgeFundIndustryAwards.com for additional information.

Full coverage of the 14th Annual Hedge Fund Industry Award winners is available in the July/August 2016 issue of Institutional Investor magazine and online at www.institutionalinvestor.com.

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About the Hedge Fund Industry Awards
Institutional Investor magazine's Hedge Fund Industry Awards recognize the hedge funds, funds of hedge funds, investment consultants, endowments, foundations, family offices, corporate funds, sovereign funds, public funds and rising stars that stood out for their innovation, achievement and contribution to the industry in the previous year. Following a public call for nominations, the editorial staff of Institutional Investor magazine 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 magazine group then conducts a wide survey of U.S. institutional investors and invites them to vote for the manager nominees. Hedge fund managers are also invited to vote for the investor nominees. Institutional Investor's editorial staff analyzes the results of the voting to determine the winners, who are announced at the annual awards dinner and ceremony, held at the Mandarin Oriental in NYC.

Contact:
Michael Peltz
Editor
Institutional Investor
mpeltz@institutionalinvestor.com