The judges have announced the shortlist for the European Fund of Hedge Funds Awards 2011. Winners will be announced on November 23. Three awards honour outstanding contributions to the FoHF industry.

The shortlist of funds of hedge funds for the 10th anniversary European Fund of Hedge Funds Awards has been published. The accolades recognise the best-performing European FoHFs as well as honouring qualitative attributes of the funds.

This year three special awards are being presented to individuals: lifetime achievement, a special editor’s award for the promotion of the FoHF/hedge fund industry and outstanding contribution to the industry.

The awards are the oldest and most prestigious, recognising the best FoHFs in Europe. This year's event puts emphasis on honouring outstanding performance and quality funds.

The awards are the only event held exclusively for the European FoHF sector and attract the top names from the industry.

Awards recognising outstanding performance of diversified and specialist FoHFs over one, three and 10 years will be presented. There are also specific awards highlighting the FoHF of the year and of the decade as well as best energy/commodity and emerging markets FoHFs. The platform covers seeding, managed accounts and Ucits products as well as best overall platform.

Qualitative awards this year have an additional category recognising the role advisory teams are now playing within the FoHF industry. Other qualitative awards include most innovative FoHF and best investor relations team among others.

This year's judging panel includes Amy Bensted, manager of hedge funds at Preqin; Andrew Rodger, executive director at Stonehage; Simon Fox, principal at Mercer; and Tushar Patel, managing director and investment manager at Hedge Fund Investment Management; with Margie Lindsay, editor of Hedge Funds Review, as chairman. Together they considered the qualitative and quantitative aspects of each entry before deciding on a winner.

The winners will be announced at a black-tie gala dinner on November 23, 2011.

Profiles of the winners as well as FoHFs and management companies shortlisted will be published on the Hedge Funds Review website on the evening of November 23. Winners will be highlighted in the December issue of the magazine.

To book a table or receive more information on the event, contact Lynsey Porter
 (+44 (0)20 7968 4541).

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European Fund of Hedge Funds Awards 2011 shortlist

Product awards
Best performing diversified FoHF over 10 years
Aberdeen Orbita Global Opportunities (Aberdeen Asset Management)
Culross Global Fund (Culross Global Management)
Edmond de Rothschild Prifund Alpha Uncorrelated (Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild)
Signet Global Fixed Income Fund (Signet Capital Management)

Best performing diversified FoHF over three years
Aberdeen Orbita Capital Return (Aberdeen Asset Management)
Cube Global Multi-Strategy Fund (Cube Capital)
Culross Global Fund (Culross Global Management)
Edmond de Rothschild Prifund Alpha Uncorrelated (Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild)
Green Way (Amundi Alternative Investments)
PCAM Blue Chip (Prime Capital)

Best performing diversified FoHF over one year
Aberdeen Orbita Capital Return (Aberdeen Asset Management)
Areca Value Discovery (Ayaltis)
Edmond de Rothschild Prifund Alpha Diversified (Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild)
Gottex Market Neutral Plus Fund (Gottex Fund Management)
PCAM Blue Chip (Prime Capital)

Best performing specialist FoHF over 10 years
ACL Alternative Fund (Abbey Capital)
Gems Recovery (Gems Advisors)
Permal Fixed Income Holdings (Permal Investment Management
Signet Global Fixed Income Fund (Signet Capital Management)
Stenham Quadrant (Stenham Asset Management)

Best performing specialist FoHF over three years
Opus Fixed Income Fund (Schroders NewFinance Capital)
New Alpha Genesis 3 (NewAlpha Asset Management)
Stenham Gold (Stenham Asset Management)

Best performing specialist FoHF over one year
Aberdeen Novus Global Credit Opportunities (Aberdeen Asset Management)
Blackpoint Global Trading (Blackpoint Management)
Prima Capital Fund (Fundana)

Best performing energy/commodity FoHF
Aberdeen Novus Natural Resources Strategy (Aberdeen Asset Management)
Man Commodity Strategies (Man Investments)
Opus Commodities Fund (Schroders NewFinance Capital
Permal MMF (LUX) Natural Resources Fund (Permal Investment Management Services)
Stenham Global Resources (Stenham Asset Management)

Best performing emerging markets FoHF
To be announced on the night

Best performing in-house FoHF
To be announced on the night

Best performing Ucits-compliant FoHF
Casteel Diversified Fund (Casteel Capital)
Goldman Sachs Dynamic Alternative Strategies Portfolio (Goldman Sachs Asset Management)
Gottex Absolute Return (Ucits) Fund (Gottex Fund Management)

Best sub-$100 million FoHF
Acantias Offshore Fund (Ayaltis)
Asian Capital Holdings Fund - China (ACH Management)
Caliburn Greater China Fund (Caliburn Capital Partners)

Hedge Funds Review FoHF of the year
Aberdeen Orbita Global Opportunities (Aberdeen Asset Management)
Edmond de Rothschild Prifund Alpha Uncorrelated (Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild)
Gottex Market Neutral Plus Fund (Gottex Fund Management)
PCAM Blue Chip (Prime Capital)

Hedge Funds Review FoHF of the decade
To be announced on the night

Platform awards
Best seeding platform
To be announced on the night

Best managed account platform
Amundi Alternative Investments Managed Account Platform (Amundi Asset Management)
dbalternatives managed accounts (Deutsche Bank London)
Lyxor Managed Account Platform (Lyxor Asset Management)
Man Managed Account Platform (Man Investments)

Best Ucits platform
Alceda Ucits Platform (Alceda Fund Management)
db-X funds (Deutsche Bank London)
Merrill Lynch Investment Solutions (Merrill Lynch International)

Best overall investment platform
Amundi Alternative Investments Managed Account Platform (Amundi Asset Management)
dbalternatives (Deutsche Bank London)
Lyxor Managed Account Platform (Lyxor Asset Management)
Merrill Lynch Investment Solutions (Merrill Lynch International)

Qualitative awards
Most innovative FoHF (no minimum AUM)
To be announced on the night

Best investor relations team
Aurum
Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Liongate Capital Management

Best high net worth individual/private client FoHF provider
To be announced on the night

Best institutional FoHF provider
To be announced on the night

Best advisory team
To be announced on the night

Best overall group
To be announced on the night

Special editor’s award for outstanding contribution to the promotion of the FoHF industry
To be announced on the night

Lifetime achievement award
To be announced on the night

Long-term achievement in FoHFs (awarded to an individual)
To be announced on the night

To book a table or receive more information on the event, contact Lynsey Porter
 (+44 (0)20 7968 4541).

Book table
Venue
Last year’s winners