2025 UCITS Hedge Awards

The Winners

The Hedge Fund Journal
Originally published on 04 April 2025

Global Macro – Discretionary 
Best Performing Fund over 3 and 5 Years   
M&G (Lux) Episode Macro Fund
(M&G Investments)

Equity Market Neutral – US
Best Performing Fund in 2024 and over 2 Years
 
Zest North America Pairs Relative Fund
(LFG + ZEST)

Event Driven
Best Performing Fund over 5 Years  
GA-Courtenay Special Situations
(Green Ash Partners)

Alternative Risk Premia
Best Performing Fund in 2024 and over 3 Years
Franklin K2 Athena Uncorrelated Strategies UCITS Fund
(Franklin Templeton)

CTA – Short Term Trader
Best Performing Fund in 2024 and over 2, 3, 5 and 10 Years   
Tungsten TRYCON AI Global Markets
(Tungsten Capital)

Equity Index Long/Short
Best Performing Fund in 2024 and over 2 and 3 Years
   
HMT Euro Seasonal LongShort I
(HanseMerkur Trust AG)

Equity Market Neutral (Europe) – Discretionary
Best Performing Fund in 2024 and over 2 and 3 Years   
UniInstitutional Equities Market Neutral
(Union Investment Institutional GmbH)

Equity Long/Short – DACH Region
Best Performing Fund in 2024 and over 2 Years    
Lakefield Swiss Equity Long/Short Fund
(Lakefield Partners)

Fund of Funds
Best Performing Fund over 10 Years
Longchamp Patrimoine Fund
(Sanso Longchamp Asset Management)

Equity Long/Short – Asia Pacific
Best Performing Fund over 7 and 10 Years  
Lafayette Dalton Asia Pacific UCITS Fund
(Dalton Investments)

Fund of Funds
Best Performing Fund over 5 and 7 Years
   
Assenagon I Multi Asset Conservative
(Assenagon)

Short Volatility (Quantitative)
Best Performing Fund in 2024 
Warburg – Defensiv – Fonds
(Warburg Invest)

Multi-Strategy (Quantitative)
Best Performing Fund in 2024 and over 2 and 3 Years
 
VIA Alternative-Liquid Fund
(VIA AM)

Fund of Funds
Best Performing Fund in 2024 and over 2 Years   
Lampe AIR²
(Lampe Asset Management)

Merger Arbitrage
Best Performing Fund over 2 years
Candriam Risk Arbitrage
(Candriam)

Equity Index Arbitrage
Best Performing Fund in 2024 and over 2, 3, 5, 7 and 10 years
Candriam Index Arbitrage
(Candriam)

CTA Trend Following
Best Performing Fund in 2024 and over 2 and 3 Years
 
CFM IS Trends
(Capital Fund Management)

CTA Trend Following – Equity Capped
Best Performing Fund in 2024 and over 2 and 3 Years 
CFM IS Trends Equity Capped
(Capital Fund Management)

CTA Trend Following
Best Performing Fund over 10 Years
Amundi Metori Epsilon Global Trends
(Metori)

Merger Arbitrage
Best Performing Fund over 10 Years
Amundi Tiedemann Arbitrage Strategy Fund
(Tiedemann)

European Credit Long/Short
Best Performing Fund in 2024 and over 5 and 7 Years 
Amundi Chenavari Credit
(Chenavari)

Alternative Risk Premia (AUM > $1bn)
Best Performing Fund over 7 Years
Nordea 1 – Alpha 10 MA Fund
(Nordea Asset Management)

Alternative Risk Premia (AUM > $1bn)
Best Performing Fund over 10 Years
Nordea 1 – Alpha 15 MA Fund
(Nordea Asset Management)

Short Volatility (Quantitative)
Best Performing Fund over 5, 7 and 10 Years
OptoFlex I
(FERI)

Asia Pacific Long/Short
Best Performing Fund over 2, 3 and 5 Years
UI – Hansabay Blossom
(Santa Lucia Asset Management)

Convertible Arbitrage
Best Performing Fund in 2024 and over 2, 3 and 5 Years    
Lazard Rathmore Alternative Fund
(Lazard Asset Management)

Emerging Markets Credit
Best Performing Fund in 2024 and over 2 Years   
Castellain Emerging Market Credit Fund
(Castellain Capital)

Absolute Return Bonds
Best Performing Fund in 2024 and over 2 Years    
Allianz Credit Opportunities
(Allianz Global Investors)

Best Launch
Empureon Volatility One
(Empureon Capital Management)

OUR AWARDS METHODOLOGY

Our data partner is LuxHedge. We do not invite submissions and we do not create or publish shortlists. We do follow LuxHedge categorisations, but we also create additional categories; this work is done by our editor Hamlin Lovell based on his experience. The risk adjusted return calculations done to determine the best performers across the various award categories are largely done by LuxHedge but some are done by us. We contact the best performers based solely on the data and request their participation in the awards. If managers/funds decline to participate we scrap the category/award. We do not contact the next best performer to request their participation.