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AQR Style Premia Alternative Fund Class I QSPIX Fund Analysis

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Will QSPIX outperform in the future?

Get our overall rating based on a fundamental assessment of the pillars below.

  • Process Pillar

    The Process Pillar is our assessment of how sensible, clearly defined, and repeatable QSPIX’s performance objective and investment process is for both security selection and portfolio construction.

  • People Pillar

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Strong 2025 results extend the recovery from the strategy’s historical bias for the value factor and ensuing drawdown, but style balance across cycles remains a watchpoint.

Senior Analyst Jodi Lim

Jodi Lim

Senior Analyst

Summary

AQR Style Premia is a market-neutral, multi-asset long-short strategy designed to harvest four well-known risk premia—value, momentum, carry, and defensive—implemented across stocks and industries, equity indexes, fixed income, currencies, and commodities. Management targets long-run Sharpe ratios of 0.70 for the mutual fund and trust and 0.60 for the UCITS vehicle. Volatility targets differ by wrapper: The Australia-based trust targets 12% annualized volatility, while the other vehicles generally aim for 10%. The UCITS fund is more constrained, excluding commodities and promoting environmental, social, and governance characteristics.

by Jodi Lim
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