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The 2027 FutureX Awards
Recognizing the boldest ideas and breakthroughs shaping the future of cross-asset investing.
The FutureX Awards celebrate the most influential, innovative, and high-performing leaders shaping the future of the cross-asset investing industry - created to recognize the people, teams, and technology pushing the field forward, and to shine a light on the work that too often happens behind the scenes.
Three dimensions of performance.
Quant performance is never the product of one thing alone. It comes from original, rigorous work; from teams that collaborate, innovate, and develop their people; and from the tools and technology that make it all possible. The Future Alpha Awards are built around exactly these three dimensions.
Quant Excellence of the Year
Honours a single individual or a specific strategy or project that delivered standout, measurable impact during the year. It celebrates outcomes and originality — the return generated, the risk removed, or the problem cracked — backed by hard numbers rather than reputation. This is the award for demonstrable results.
Quant Desk of the Year
Shifts the focus from the individual to the group. It celebrates collective achievement and the culture behind it — how a team collaborates, develops and retains talent, innovates together, and holds up under pressure. It recognises the engine rather than the star.
Alpha Technology & Innovator Award
Recognises a product, service, or vendor serving the quant community. It celebrates innovation that delivers real, verifiable value to clients — the tools, platforms, and data that move the field forward — judged on adoption and measurable client outcomes rather than marketing polish.
From nomination to the stage.
Nominate
Submit your nomination - for yourself, your team, or a leader you admire via the official FutureX Awards form. Entry is free. Entries open October 2026.
Judging panel review
Our trusted judging panel evaluates all nominations against the qualification criteria, ensuring every result is fair, credible, and merit-based.
Celebrate
Winners and runners-up are revealed live at the Future Alpha drinks reception on March 16 at the Javits Centre, New York.
The FutureX Awards launch in October 2026 - stay tuned for updates.
Find out more hereMoments from the 2026 FutureX Awards.
The Quantpedia Awards, hosted at Future Alpha 2027
Alongside the FutureX Awards, Future Alpha is hosting stage for a partner award with its own independent judging process.
The Quantpedia Awards, hosted at Future Alpha 2027
Future Alpha is proud to partner with Quantpedia to bring the Quantpedia Awards to the Future Alpha stage. The winners will be announced and celebrated live in New York on 16 March 2027, in front of a senior audience of quantitative, systematic and data-driven investment leaders.
The Quantpedia Awards are an annual competition recognising the best publicly available quantitative trading research, judged by a committee of senior industry and academic figures. Bringing them to Future Alpha unites a rigorous, established research award with the live stage and buy-side community to match it.
About Quantpedia
Quantpedia is a quantitative investment research platform that helps investors, asset managers and financial professionals discover, analyse and implement systematic trading strategies. Its extensive database of academic research and investment factors turns complex quantitative findings into practical, structured insights — making it easier to identify evidence-based strategies across asset classes and markets.
Quantpedia is led by Radovan Vojtko, CEO and Head of Research, who focuses on quantitative investing, systematic strategies, and translating academic financial research into real investment applications. Before Quantpedia, he managed more than €300 million across quantitative funds as a portfolio manager at Tatra Asset Management.
Quantpedia Award Submissions will open in October 2026.
