OVER TWO DECADES OF INNOVATION THAT TRANSLATE TO RESULTS FOR CLIENTS.
First Quadrant investment strategies derive from an ongoing search for ways to profit from market opportunities. To implement these strategies, we adhere to a process that traverses a dynamic, but familiar, cycle of goals, challenges, and management solutions.
THE CHALLENGE > Clients have different needs and investment preferences.
FQ’S RESPONSE > Our approach is to provide strategies that are diversified and diversifying.
DIVERSIFIED ALPHA — "Pure" alpha is the most difficult return to find.
Our alpha strategies employs uncorrelated drivers of returns and seek to deliver a unique alpha stream, not simply an "excess return".
OPTIMAL BETA — Beta can be conventional or exotic.
Our beta strategies are fundamentally intuitive and seek to capture only the "essential" forms of beta.
TOTAL RETURN — The blending of Alpha and Beta requires skill.
These strategies offer our best ideas in alpha and beta and target optimal risk-adjusted returns.