If you are an investment manager based in Australia or an offshore manager with an Australian presence offering an absolute return product to Australian investors in any of the award categories, please send your net monthly performance returns to Mercer Australia

PacificManagerCommunication@mercer.com for inclusion in the Awards database. 

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Mercer is the data collection partner for the Australian Alternative Investment Awards - being presented at the 2026 Hedge Funds Rock event on 17th September, 2026.

 

The award categories are:

Best Specialist ESG Fund

Best Alternative Investment Manager of the Year

Best Alternative Fixed Income and Credit Fund

Best Emerging Manager

Best Global Macro/Futures Fund

Best Investor Supporting Australian Managers

Best Listed Alternative Investment Product

Best Long Short Equity Fund

Best Market Neutral Fund

Best Multi Strategy Fund

Best Offshore Manager Operating in Australia

Best Private Debt Manager

Contribution to the Australian Hedge Funds Industry Award

  

Please feel free to nominate any new funds and send through data as outlined below.

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Data to 31st May 2026 must be provided by end of June 2026

 

Please provide your data via email in the format as follows:

 

Preferred Data Provision Format:

• Data to be provided in Excel; No PDF or Word files

• Data provided in columns, with the name of the strategy at the top of each corresponding column, include fund code if applicable – APIR, ISIN in a secondary row

• The monthly return to be in descending order in the first column, with end of May 2026 NAV being the first entry - with the month in the adjacent column to confirm the return data is in the correct order.

• Please only provide Net Returns

• At least 36 months of return data to be provided (unless new fund where we need a minimum of 12 months’ data)

• Returns to be in percentage format, to at least two decimal places

 

Let me know if you have any queries on this process.

 

Thank you in advance

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