METHODOLOGY
Since 2018, the Investors Choice Awards have gone digital. Competition is fierce with more funds than ever before being considered in each peer group. There are also more institutional investors participating in the judging process than ever before.
All funds reporting to Allocator.com are considered for the awards.
There are two types of awards:
1. The Top Performer Awards - these are granted to the select few funds which have outperformed their wider peer group in each category. Winners are determined purely based on quantitative risk adjusted returns. For 2020 we have extended the time period under consideration to evaluate how managers navigated both 2019 and the Covid-19 related market turbulence in early 2020. The 2020 Top Performer award winners will be chosen based on absolute returns from 1 Jan 2019 to 30 April 2020. The Long Term categories consider returns from Jan 2017 to Apr 2020.
2. The 'Investors Choice' Awards - For each category, the fund which receives the highest qualitative scoring by the judges receives the prestigious award. Institutional investors from around the world score the Top Performers on a range of qualitative criteria including investment processes, risk framework, transparency, team and ability to generate alpha. The judges review manager profiles on the Allocator.com portal and independently assign a score from 1 to 10 in each of the qualitative assessment areas for each fund.
All funds reporting to Allocator.com are considered for the awards.
There are two types of awards:
1. The Top Performer Awards - these are granted to the select few funds which have outperformed their wider peer group in each category. Winners are determined purely based on quantitative risk adjusted returns. For 2020 we have extended the time period under consideration to evaluate how managers navigated both 2019 and the Covid-19 related market turbulence in early 2020. The 2020 Top Performer award winners will be chosen based on absolute returns from 1 Jan 2019 to 30 April 2020. The Long Term categories consider returns from Jan 2017 to Apr 2020.
2. The 'Investors Choice' Awards - For each category, the fund which receives the highest qualitative scoring by the judges receives the prestigious award. Institutional investors from around the world score the Top Performers on a range of qualitative criteria including investment processes, risk framework, transparency, team and ability to generate alpha. The judges review manager profiles on the Allocator.com portal and independently assign a score from 1 to 10 in each of the qualitative assessment areas for each fund.
