We are very proud to annonce that the fund Clairinvest Cosmopolitan Global is decerned the 2018 Banco Award as “Best Hedge Fund Macro over 1 year”.

The prizes granted by the BANCO Awards are based on data ending in June and are awarded to the best hedge funds and funds of hedge funds over 1, 3, 5 and 10 years.

Click here to see the complete winners list.

“The BANCO Swiss Hedge Funds Awards 2018 have rewarded 22 winners among the 230 funds that lined up for this year’s competition in 9 different categories. The ceremony, which took place in Geneva, also honored a prominent personality in the field of pension fund management, Me Jacques-André Schneider, to launch the BANCO Swiss Pension Funds Awards, which will take place in June 2019.

Lausanne, October 19, 2018 – The 12th ceremony of the BANCOawards took place yesterday evening in Geneva (Switzerland), at the Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues. The 2018 lineup saw 230 funds compete for a trophee in 9 different categories over periods of 1, 3, 5 and 10 years, with an almost equal number of single hedge funds and funds of hedge funds among participants.
Compared to 2017, the number of funds duly registered for public distribution in Switzerland (as opposed to funds restricted to qualified investors) has again increased (69% against 62% in 2017). This evolution has been constant over the last 3 years already. It shows a growing interest among fund promoters for Switzerland. This market does indeed have a high density of sophisticated institutional investors, such as banks, family offices and, last but not least, pension funds – the majority of which are readers of BANCO.
Indira C. Tasan, chairman of the Jury and editor-in-chief of BANCO, said “BANCO is proud to present such high quality hedge funds to its institutional readers. The winners are exactly the funds that most investors are looking for: funds that offer the highest possible performances with the least possible drawdowns”.
Among the members of the Jury of the BANCO Swiss Hedge Funds Awards, two are pension funds managers (Grégoire Haenni, from the pension fund of the state of Geneva CPEG, and Nicolas Salomon, from the CERN Pension Fund), one is an adviser to pension funds (André Augustin, from KIS Key Investment Services), and one is a fund administrator (Christian Carron, from Gerifonds). This explains why the choices of the Jury deliberately reflect the needs of retirement schemes.
The event was also the occasion for BANCO to launch the BANCO Swiss Pension Funds Awards, by giving a prize to one of the most prominent personalities in the field of Swiss pension fund management, Me Jacques-André Schneider. A law professor at Lausanne University, member of the Federal Commission on retirement and old age, surviving dependants and disability insurance, Me Schneider is the author of numerous books dedicated to the Swiss retirement system and has played a major role in the evolution of its legal framework.
Next year, the BANCO Swiss Pension Funds Awards will offer a program of conferences and give out prizes based on the assessment of a jury of industry professionals. The event will take place on June 5, 2019, whereas the BANCO Swiss Hedge Funds Awards will remain in October (31.10.2019).
Pictures from the ceremony of the BANCOawards 2018 will be published in the December edition of BANCO, dedicated to hedge funds, but will also be found on www.bancoawards.com in the coming days.”

​Quantitative screening
• Funds belonging to the same categories are measured and compared according to a score based on 3 criterias over the periods considered:
– annual compound return
– largest drawdown
– time to recovery
• The nominees in each category are the 5 funds that
– were ranked best among their peers,
– provided information with full transparency and have returned the requested information in due time
– and met all criteria of good faith and diligence set by the Jury of the BANCO Swiss Hedge Funds Awards.

NB: funds denominated in various currencies or classes are considered as one product, the fund achieving the best score being retained.​

Qualitative screening
• The jury is composed of at least 5 experts from various sectors in or around the alternative industry (funds selection, fund administration, advisory services, pension fund management, etc. ) chaired by a member of BANCO’s editorial team. In case of a tie, the Chairman holds the deciding vote.
• The documents examined by the jury are:
– the prospectus
– the latest audited annual report with the complete list of positions
– the 12 latest monthly factsheets
• Funds whose promoters do not deliver all of the above mentionned documents will be disqualified.
• Compliance with the deadlines, transparency and adequacy of the reporting, speed and quality of the answers are taken into account, especially in contentious cases (such as competing portfolios with comparable qualities).
• Based on the available information and data, the jury deliberates during a one-day session to choose the best fund in each category, aiming to select those with the best prospects of maintaining their results.

Periods
• The periods covered by the BANCOawards, The Swiss Hedge Funds Awards, run from:
​- June 30, 2007, to June 30, 2017 for the 10 years awards
– June 30, 2012, to June 30, 2017 for the 5 years awards
– June 30, 2014, to June 30, 2017 for the 3 years awards
– June 30, 2016, to June 30, 2017 for the 1 year awards

​Universe & Categories
• The universe of the BANCOawards consists of all the portfolios (hedge funds or FoHF) available to institutional investors in Switzerland.
• The funds are classified into categories according to type, strategies, styles and regions.
• The categories must have at least 10 comparable funds to be considered over a given period.