{"id":5080,"date":"2006-09-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"5th-annual-hedge-fund-rocks-industry-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2006\/5th-annual-hedge-fund-rocks-industry-awards.html","title":{"rendered":"5th Annual Hedge Fund Rocks &#038; Industry Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">  Celebrating five years and over $1 million of raised funds for Australian families afflicted with cancer, last night\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s annual Hedge Funds Rock event really was something to rock on about. Over 550  guests embarked on HOME nightclub to formally recognise Australia\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s Hedge Fund specialists and rock with Ian Moss of Cold Chisel fame, Typhoon, Shy Guys and Choir Boys.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">  This year\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s event and Hedge Fund Directory raised an astonishing $455,000, bringing the amount raised over the past five years to $1.15 million.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">  The Hedge Funds Rock event supports Cure Our Kids, a children\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s cancer charity providing support services for families affected by cancer as well as commissioning principal research to help  alleviate the burden of paediatric cancer in Australia. Research undertaken in Australia is shared internationally, and is the key to increasing the survival of kids with cancer everywhere.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">  The Hedge Funds Rock event also seeks to recognise industry leaders with the presentation of the following highly coveted awards for outstanding industry performance over the past 12 months.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">  The awards, judged by independent asset consultants Angela Ashton (IWL) and Simon Ibbetson (Standard &amp; Poor\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s) went to:<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Best Emerging Manager Award<\/strong><br \/>  K2 Select International Absolute Return Fund<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Best Long Short &amp; Absolute Return Fund Award<\/strong><br \/>  Hayberry Australian Equity Fund<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Best Market Neutral Fund Award<\/strong><br \/>  Fortitude Capital<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Best Global Macro \/ Futures Fund Award<\/strong><br \/>  Merrill Lynch Asset Allocation Alpha Fund<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Best Fund of Fund 2006 Award<\/strong><br \/>  Asia Pacific Australian Equity Opportunity Fund Series 1<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Best Investor supporting Australian Managers Award<\/strong><br \/>  BT Funds \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 Total Return Fund<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Australian Hedge Fund of the Year Award<\/strong><br \/>  Basis Aust-Rim Opportunity Fund<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Contribution to the Australian Hedge Fund Industry Award<\/strong><br \/>  Richard Keary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrating five years and over $1 million of raised funds for Australian families afflicted with cancer, last night\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s annual Hedge Funds Rock event really was something to rock on about. Over 550 guests embarked on HOME nightclub to formally recognise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}