INVESTOR CHOICE AWARDS 2013:  EUROPE
April 19th 2013 

Chenavari, BCM and Equilibria headed up the list of winners of the Investors Choice European Hedge Fund Awards last night. The awards were announced by Sam Jones, the Financial Times Hedge Fund Correspondent, at the sold-out hedge fund industry gala dinner and awards ceremony held at The Dorchester Hotel in London.
 
Chenavari won the Fund of The Year award with its Toro Capital IA Fund, while BCM & Partners won the UCITS Fund of The Year award with its Duemme Sicav Euro Investments Plus fund. The Emerging Fund of The Year award was won by Equilibria Capital Management’s EQC Global Opportunities Fund.

Congratulations to all the shortlisted fund managers and award winners! 
 
 
Fund of the Year 2012 - Presented by Richard Walters of Wellcome Trust
Chenavari - Toro Capital IA - WINNER​​

UCITS Fund of the Year 2012 - Presented by Chris Keen of Culross Global Management
Duemme Sicav Euro Investments Plus - WINNER

Emerging Fund of the Year 2012 - Presented by Tushar Patel of HFIM
EQC Global Opportunities Fund - WINNER​

Equity Fund of 2012 - Presented by Pedro Pardo of the Royal County of Berkshire Pension Fund
Aphilion SIF - L/S
Pelargos Japan Alpha Fund
Tortoise Fund - WINNER
Zenit

European Equity Fund of 2012 - Presented by Miguel Abadi of Gems Advisors
Nordic - European Absolute Return Fund
PTR-Corto - WINNER
Susa European Equities Fund

Emerging Markets Equity Fund of 2012 - Presented by Andrea Michelli of Stenham Advisors
36ONE Offshore Portfolio
Capricorn GEM Fund
Visio Dynamic Hedge South Africa - WINNER

Market Neutral Fund of 2012
Duet Global Plus Fund
Helium Opportunities
Parametrica Global Fund
The Cassiopeia Fund - WINNER​

Event Driven Fund of 2012
FrontFour Capital Partners
Hadron Fund - WINNER
Orsay Merger Arbitrage Fund

Discretionary Global Macro Fund of 2012 - Presented by Jason Funk of Lyxor Asset Management
Avantium Liquid EM Macro Fund 
BayernInvest Bond Global Select-Fonds
MaxQ Fund - WINNER
OFP 150
OFP 400

Systematic Global Macro & Global Asset Allocation Fund of 2012
AC Risk Parity 12 Fund
BayernInvest Rendite Dynamic Fonds - WINNER
Rialto Global Macro

CTA Fund of 2012 - Presented by Chris Jones of bfinance
AHL Evolution - WINNER
Amplitude Klassik
Spektrum

Commodity Fund of 2012 
Cumulus Energy Fund - WINNER
DB Platinum V Hermes Absolute Return Commodity Fund, 

Fixed Income Arbitrage Fund of 2012
Asgard Fixed Income Fund I - WINNER
Danske Invest Hedge Fixed Income Strategies Fund
Pelagus Capital Fund

Global Credit Fund of 2012
Chenavari Corporate Credit strategy
Duemme Sicav Euro Investments Plus - WINNER
JPS Credit Opportunites Master Fund,
WyeTree RRETRO Fund

Relative Value European Credit Fund of 2012
Alegra ABS I
Eiffel Credit Opportunities - WINNER
Numen Credit Opportunities Fund

Long Biased European Credit Fund of 2012
Alcentra Structured Credit Opportunity Fund II
Chenavari - Real Estate Debt strategy
Chenavari - Regulatory Capital strategy,
Napier Park European Credit Opportunities - WINNER​​

Multi-Strategy Fund of 2012
Insparo Africa and Middle East Fund - WINNER
LMR Fund
Nordea 1 - Heracles Long/Short MI fund

European Multi-Strategy Fund of 2012
BayernInvest Alpha Select Plus-Fonds
Catella Hedge
Chenavari - Toro Capital IA - WINNER​

Equity Fund - Last 3 Years
Aphilion SIF - L/S
FrontfOur Capital Partners
Pelargos Japan Alpha Fund
Tortoise Fund - WINNER
Zenit

EM Equity Fund - Last 3 Years
36ONE Offshore Portfolio
Capricorn GEM Fund
Visio Dynamic Hedge South Africa - WINNER​​

Market Neutral Fund - Last 3 Years
Helium Opportunities
Parametrica Global Fund
The Cassiopeia Fund - WINNER​

Discretionary Global Macro Fund - Last 3 Years
BayernInvest Bond Global Select-Fonds
MaxQ Fund - WINNER
OFP 150
OFP 400

CTA Fund - Last 3 Years
AHL Evolution - WINNER
Amplitude Klassik
Spektrum

Credit Fund - Last 3 Years
Alegra ABS I
Chenavari Corporate Credit strategy - WINNER
Duemme Sicav Euro Investments Plus
Numen Credit Opportunities Fund
WyeTree RRETRO Fund

Fixed Income Arbitrage Fund - Last 3 Years
Asgard Fixed Income Fund I  - WINNER
Danske Invest Hedge Fixed Income Strategies Fund,
Pelagus Capital Fund

Multi-Strategy Fund - Last 3 Years
Hadron Fund
Insparo Africa and Middle East Fund
LMR Fund - WINNER
Nordea 1 - Heracles Long/Short MI fund

Specialist Fund - Last 3 Years
AC Risk Parity 12 Fund
Cumulus Energy Fund - WINNER
DB Platinum V Hermes Absolute Return Commodity Fund

Emerging manager funds are considered alongside their closest peers in their separate categories:

Emerging Equity Fund of 2012
Auriga Investors - Montserrat Global Fund
Lazard global hexagon
​PFM Dynamic Equity - WINNER​
RiverCrest Global Equity Fund
Samphire Global

Emerging European Equity Fund of 2012
Allianz Discovery Europe
Princes Gate Brightwell Equity Absolute Return
PriorNilsson Yield
Taiga Fund - WINNER

Emerging EM Equity Fund of 2012
Insparo Africa Equity Fund - WINNER
Laurium Offshore Segregated Portfolio
Strateji Long/Short Fund

Emerging Discretionary Global Macro Fund of 2012
Apollo EM Macro
Aros Paradigm
EQC Global Opportunities Fund - WINNER
Laurentia Global Fund
Ovington Fund Limited

Emerging Credit Fund of 2012
Crystal Fund II
LNG Europa Credit Fund
MB Master Fund
PVE Credit Value Fund
Serone Key Opportunities Fund - WINNER​

Emerging Managed Futures Fund of 2012
Crossfire - WINNER
Erste Bank Trading - UpTrend
IMC Quantitative Indicator Fund
Princes Gate Brightwell Systematic Managed Futures
R4 Accurate Global Equity
SINGULARITY Managed Futures Program 
TrendConcept Fund MultiAssetAllocator

Emerging Market Neutral Fund of 2012
Diva Synergy, Bernheim
HiQ Invest Market Neutral Fund - WINNER
Paris Capital Relative Value Fund

​Emerging Multi-Strategy Fund of 2012
Future Trends Capital Fund
Global Syndex
M2T Multistrategy
Princes Gate Brightwell Global Diversified,
Sentat Event Driven - WINNER
Tideway Ucits Global Navigator Fund
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