Private Equity Wire partnered with Pitchbook who pre-selected managers based on their 12-month performance in the period leading up to these awards, with a fourth option to vote for a manager who wasn’t on the pre-selection. The winners in all categories were those who attracted the most votes from Private Equity Wire’s readers.

Readers were polled over a period of 8 weeks to vote for who they thought were the best in all categories and Winners in all categories were decided on the majority vote. Overall the votes were split 31% Investors 40% Managers & 29% Service Providers.