SWIB Awarded Allocator-Asset Manager Partnership of the Year at 2025 Allocators' Choice Awards
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The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) was honored September 18 in New York City,
winning Institutional Investor’s Allocators’ Choice Award for 2025 Allocator-Asset Manager Partnership of the Year.
Accepted by Head of Funds Alpha Derek Drummond on behalf of the team, SWIB was recognized for forming Dockside Platforms with the partnership of the University of Texas Investment Management Company (UTIMCO) and Walleye Capital.
Dockside Platforms is “a pioneering collaboration that created unique co-investment opportunities through a structure similar to the 'pod shop' model of multimanager hedge funds. The venture was celebrated as an example of how allocators and asset managers can partner to access compelling, high-conviction opportunities.”
The Allocators' Choice Awards are financial awards given by Institutional Investor – a leading international financial publication – to recognize industry leaders. The awards were created as a way for asset allocators to recognize deserving peers for their work in different categories.
Finalists were selected based on nominations submitted over the summer and were vetted by Institutional Investor's editorial team. Only institutional asset owners were eligible to vote in the Allocators' Choice Awards. This included staff members of retirement systems, endowments, foundations, sovereign funds, central banks, family offices, but not consultants, asset managers, or other service providers.
Click here to learn more about the Allocators’ Choice Awards.
About SWIB
The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB), created in 1951, is an independent state agency responsible for managing the assets of the Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS), the State Investment Fund (SIF), and other state trust funds. As of December 31, 2024, SWIB managed more than $162 billion of total assets, approximately 86% representing WRS assets. SWIB's management of the WRS trust funds aims to provide a fully funded public pension for over 692,000 current and former employees of state agencies, the university system, school districts, and most local governments. The WRS consistently ranks among the 10 largest public pension funds in the U.S. SWIB, a steady economic pillar for the state of Wisconsin, focuses on growing the trust funds, managing risk, and optimizing costs over the long term.