Call for entries for 2012 AIMA Canada Research Award

The award recognizes outstanding Canadian research pertaining to any aspect of alternative investments. The award is open to academics, students and practitioners who are either residents of Canada or Canadian citizens living abroad. Topics may include, but are not limited to, investment strategy, regulation, trading, risk management, risk measurement and manager selection.

Eligible research must have been conducted either by Canadians or non-Canadians who were living in Canada when the research for their paper was conducted. Papers must include both the full version of the research no longer than 10,000 words and a summary version no longer than 2,500 words. Additionally, to be eligible, the final draft of the paper must have been completed within the current calendar year. Where a paper has multiple authors, each author must meet the eligibility requirements outlined above.

The Adjudication Panel will consist of academic members from business schools across Canada and from selected members of the AIMA Canada Education and Research Committee. The panel will be managed by Paul Bates, Special Advisor to the President of McMaster University.

AIMA is the hedge fund industry's global, not-for-profit trade association with over 1,300 corporate members (with over 6,000 individual contacts) in more than 40 countries worldwide.

Members include hedge fund managers, fund of hedge funds managers, prime brokers, legal and accounting firms, investors, fund administrators and independent fund directors. They all benefit from AIMA’s active influence in policy development, its leadership in industry initiatives, including education and sound practice manuals and its excellent reputation with regulators.

James Burron 416-453-0111 jburron@aima-canada.org