| 2017 SHORTLIST |
Category |
Firm |
| Best administrator - client service | Gemini Hedge Fund Services |
| NAV Fund Administration Group | |
| Northern Trust | |
| Opus Fund Services | |
| SS&C Technologies | |
| US Bancorp | |
| Best administrator - innovation | ALPS Alternative Investment Services |
| Gemini Hedge Fund Services | |
| NAV Fund Administration Group | |
| Northern Trust | |
| Opus Fund Services | |
| SS&C Technologies | |
| Best administrator - technology | ALPS Alternative Investment Services |
| Gemini Hedge Fund Services | |
| NAV Fund Administration Group | |
| Northern Trust | |
| Opus Fund Services | |
| SEI | |
| SS&C Technologies | |
| Best administrator - overall | ALPS Alternative Investment Services |
| Gemini Hedge Fund Services | |
| NAV Fund Administration Group | |
| Northern Trust | |
| SEI | |
| SS&C Technologies | |
| US Bancorp | |
| Best FCM boutique | ADM Investor Services |
| Advantage Futures | |
| Rosenthal Collins Group | |
| Wedbush Securities | |
| Best FCM - client service | ABN AMRO Clearing Chicago |
| RJ O'Brien & Associates | |
| Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking | |
| UBS | |
| Wells Fargo | |
| Best FCM - innovation | ABN AMRO Clearing Chicago |
| RJ O'Brien & Associates | |
| Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking | |
| UBS | |
| Best FCM - technology | ABN AMRO Clearing Chicago |
| Interactive Brokers | |
| RJ O'Brien & Associates | |
| Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking | |
| UBS |
|
| Best FCM - overall | ABN AMRO Clearing Chicago |
| Goldman Sachs | |
| Morgan Stanley | |
| Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking | |
| Wells Fargo | |
| Best capital introduction service | Capital Trading Group |
| RCM Alternatives | |
| Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking | |
| Stone Mountain Capital |
|
| UBS | |
| Best compliance firm | Confluence |
| Laven Partners | |
| Michael Coglianese CPA | |
| Titan Regulation Corporation | |
| Turnkey Trading Partners | |
| Best cloud computing provider | Abacus Group |
| Capital Support | |
| Confluence | |
| HedgeFacts | |
| Hentsu | |
| InfoHedge Technologies | |
| RFA | |
| Best consultancy firm | Arthur Bell |
| Confluence | |
| Laven Partners | |
| Michael Coglianese CPA | |
| NorthStar Financial Services | |
| RSM US | |
| Turnkey Trading Partners | |
| Best CTA managed account platform | Deutsche Bank |
| Gemini Alternative Funds | |
| Kettera Strategies | |
| Best IRA custodian | Midland IRA |
| Millennium Trust Company | |
| Pensco | |
| Best shadow accounting firm | HedgeFacts |
| NAV Consulting | |
| Northern Trust | |
| Viteos | |
| Best cyber-security solution | Abacus Group |
| Capital Support | |
| Eze Castle Integration | |
| InfoHedge Technologies | |
| Turnkey Trading Partners | |
| Best data and information provider | AlphaPipe |
| Bloomberg | |
| Shore Capital Research | |
| Thomson Reuters | |
| TradingScreen | |
| Best exchange - innovation | CBOE |
| AFEX Associated Foreign Exchange | |
| CME Group | |
| Eurex | |
| ICE Futures | |
| OneChicago | |
| Best exchange - overall | CBOE |
| CME Group | |
| Eurex | |
| ICE Futures | |
| Best introducing broker | Capital Trading Group |
| IASG | |
| RCM Alternatives | |
| Best marketing and communications consultancy | Alpha Pipe Articulate Communications |
| Baretz+Brunelle | |
| Frumerman & Nemeth | |
| Paragon Public Relations | |
| Peregrine Communications | |
| Prosek | |
| Best middle and back office | Capital Trading Group |
| ClearStructure Financial Technology | |
| Constellation Advisers | |
| HedgeFacts | |
| Northern Trust | |
| Objecutive | |
| Best specialist advisory | Constellation Advisers |
| Grant Thornton | |
| Laven Partners | |
| NorthStar Financial Services | |
| Stone Mountain Capital | |
| Strategic Exchanges |
|
| Best technology firm overall | Capital Support |
| ClearStructure Financial Technology | |
| Deltix | |
| FundSeeder | |
| HedgeFacts | |
| InfoHedge Technologies | |
| Northern Trust | |
| Objecutive | |
| REDI Global Technologies | |
| SS&C Technologies | |
| TORA | |
| Best risk management technology provider | Eze Castle Integration |
| HedgeFacts | |
| LiquidityBook | |
| REDI Global Technologies | |
| Rapid Ratings International | |
| Risk Advisors | |
| Best tax and
audit service |
Arthur Bell |
| EisnerAmper | |
| Grant Thornton | |
| Michael Coglianese CPA | |
| RSM US |
|
| Best third-party algo provider Best trading and execution technology |
Quantitative brokers Deltix Pragma Securities Capital Trading Group |
| Deltix | |
| Fidessa corporation | |
| Interactive Brokers | |
| Quantitative Brokers | |
| REDI Global Technologies | |
| Silexx Financial Sysems | |
| Tethys Technologies | |
| TORA | |
| TradingScreen | |
| Best valuation service | Arthur Bell |
| Duff & Phelps | |
| HedgeFacts | |
| SEI | |
| Best law firm - client service | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld |
| Alston & Bird | |
| Crow & Cushing | |
| Dechert | |
| K&L Gates | |
| Oriogun | |
| Ropes & Gray | |
| Ruddy Gregory | |
| Best law firm - overall | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld |
| Alston & Bird | |
| Crow & Cushing | |
| Dechert | |
| K&L Gates | |
| Macfarlanes | |
| Best law firm - CTA start-up | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld |
| Crow & Cushing | |
| Dechert | |
| Ropes & Gray | |
| Best boutique law firm | Golub & Golub |
| Oriogun | |
| Ruddy Gregory | |
| Best executive search - Quant | Context Jensen Partners |
| Glocap | |
| Lockwood Executive Search | |
| Navesink International | |
| GQR Global Markets |
