RQI Investors launches new Long-Short Fund with $500 million seed investment from UniSuper
16 June 2025: RQI Investors, an active quantitative equities manager within the First Sentier Investors group, has announced the launch of the RQI Australian Diversified Alpha Long Short Fund (the Fund), with UniSuper providing seed investment of $500 million.
Drawing on the market-leading and unique, core systematic investment process of the RQI Australian Diversified Alpha strategy, the new Fund invests in ASX 300 companies, combining an adaptive leverage approach to long-short investing ranging up to 160% long and 60% short, whilst maintaining 100% market net exposure. The Fund aims to deliver consistent risk adjusted returns of 4-6% p.a. (gross) above the benchmark and is open to institutional and eligible wholesale investors in Australia.
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