Active Quantitative Equity (AQE)
Human led, research tested: Only our best investment ideas survive the rigor of our analysis.
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AQE Strategies
How can our capabilities help solve your investment problems?
78% of our Active Quantitative Equity strategies beat their benchmarks over a five-year horizon.*
Searching The World For Alpha
How does the AQE team convert their investment intuitions into an insight worthy of a place in their stock-selection model?
Meet The Team
"Many people think equity investing is all about finding companies that offer the best returns. We’re focused on the best way to form equity portfolios to deliver the best risk-adjusted returns, in line with the investor’s specific return and risk objectives. Our experience is in applying our investment knowledge across as many companies as possible in a highly objective way."
"Markets are inherently inefficient, and we’re able to go wherever we believe we can take advantage of those inefficiencies. In our Global Defensive Equity strategy, for example, we don’t start off by limiting ourselves to a low-volatility, defensive universe, and then seek to pick the best stocks within that limited universe. In our mind, that’s not optimal. We’d rather consider investment opportunities across the entire universe so that no stone is left unturned."
"Confucius said that real knowledge is knowing the extent of one’s ignorance. 'Ignorance' is a strong word, but in our world of investing or active money management, there is an enormous amount of uncertainty where investors can be wrong a lot. For us in AQE, it’s about working to stack the odds in our favor, so that when we are wrong, we are wrong a little less often."
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For more than 30 years, research and innovation have been at the core of our efforts to deliver outperformance for our clients. Contact your State Street Global Advisors relationship manager, or email us to learn how to invest in AQE.