| Category | Winner | Highly Commended | |||
| Best accounting firm | EY | RSM | |||
| Best accounting firm - client service | Marcum | Arthur Bell | |||
| Best advisory firm - client service | EisnerAmper | EY | |||
| Best advisory firm - regulation and compliance | ACA Compliance | Cordium | |||
| Best advisory firm - small and start-up firms | Constellation Advisers | ||||
| Best administrator - under $30bn single manager | Maitland | Theorem Fund Services | |||
| Best administrator - over $30bn single manager | Citco | Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services | |||
| Best administrator - under $30bn fund of hedge funds | Centaur | ||||
| Best administrator - over $30bn fund of hedge funds | SS&C Technologies | ||||
| Best administrator - under $30bn innovation | Opus Fund Services | ||||
| Best administrator - over $30bn innovation | Deutsche Bank Alternative Fund Services | Apex Fund Services | |||
| Best portfolio management software provider | Eze Software | ||||
| Best research and data vendor | AlphaSense | IHS Markit | |||
| Best risk management technology provider | Numerix | ||||
| Best shadow accounting firm | Viteos | BNY Mellon | |||
| Best technology firm - client service | SS&C Advent | RFA | |||
| Best technology for small and start-up firms | Options | Siepe | |||
| Best technology firm - overall | NEX Optimisation - ENSO | ||||
| Best alternative data provider | Virtus Partners | ||||
| Best banking and custody solution | BNP Paribas | State Street Corporation | |||
| Best fund accounting and reporting software | SS&C Advent | Citco | |||
| Best hedge fund recruitment firm | GQR | Context Jensen Partners | |||
| Best independent cap intro provider | Castle Hill Capital Partners | ||||
| Best IT security service | eSentire | Align | |||
| Best marketing and communications consultancy | Peregrine Communications Group | ||||
| Best middle-office solution | SEI | Blue River Partners | |||
| Best outsourced tech infrastructure provider | Abacus Group | Matsco Solutions | |||
| Best administrator - under $30bn client service | UMB Fund Services | ||||
| Best administrator - over $30bn client service | Citco | SS&C Technologies | |||
| Best administrator - small and start-up firms | ALPS Alternative Investment Services | ||||
| Best administrator - technology | U.S. Bancorp Fund Services | HSBC | |||
| Best administrator - reporting | Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services | ALPS Alternative Investment Services | |||
| Best administrator – liquid alternatives | BNY Mellon | Gemini Hedge Fund Services | |||
| Best overall advisory firm | EY | ||||
| Best third party marketing vendor | Stonehaven | Agecroft Partners | |||
| Best valuation service - hard to value assets | Murray Analytics | Houlihan Lokey | |||
| Most innovative technology provider | Backstop Solutions Group | Eze Castle Integration | |||
| Specialist marketing services | Ovis Creative | ||||
| Best boutique law firm | Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen | ||||
| Best onshore law firm - hedge fund start-ups | Sadis & Goldberg | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman | |||
| Best offshore law firm | Harneys | ||||
| Best onshore law firm | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld | ||||
| Best offshore law firm - client service | Walkers | ||||
| Best onshore law firm - client service | Schulte Roth & Zabel | ||||
| Best outsourced trading firm | JonesTrading Institutional Services | ||||
| Best prime broker - boutique | Cowen Prime Services | ||||
| Best prime broker - capital introduction | JP Morgan | ||||
| Best prime broker - consulting | Goldman Sachs | Wells Fargo Prime Services | |||
| Best prime broker - innovation | BNY Mellon's Pershing | ||||
| Best prime broker - start-ups | Jefferies | Cowen Prime Services | |||
| Best prime broker - technology | Interactive Brokers (IBKR) | ||||
| Best overall prime broker | Morgan Stanley |
