Now in its ninth year, the Allocators' Choice Awards is Institutional Investor's premier recognition program honoring the chief investment officers and allocator teams who demonstrate exceptional leadership, innovation, and results across the institutional investment landscape.

Winners are selected entirely by peer vote — chosen by the same caliber of professionals they compete alongside every day. Finalists are vetted by II's editorial staff with input from its advisory board, drawn from a pool of industry nominations and the publication's own research.

Past honorees have guided endowments to Ivy League-rivaling returns, engineered historic turnarounds in public pension private equity programs, and built pioneering allocator-asset manager partnerships that are redefining how institutions access opportunity. This September, we gather again to recognize the leaders shaping the future of capital allocation.