RQI Investors (formerly Realindex Investments), an active quantitative equities manager within the First Sentier Investors Group, announces a series of promotions within its team.
Joanna Nash and Ron Guido have expanded their existing responsibilities as senior quantitative portfolio managers with promotions to Head of Portfolio Management and Head of Alpha Research respectively. In her expanded role of Head of Portfolio Management, Dr Nash has oversight of the final portfolio outcomes in terms of performance, client expectations and attribution. Dr Guido leads the research of new alpha ideas, improves existing ideas, and will deepen the team’s understanding of model attribution, as Head of Alpha Research.
Scott Hamilton has also been promoted to Head of Portfolio Construction and Engineering in addition to his role as senior quantitative researcher. He leads portfolio engineering using the team’s extensive research, signals and insights backed by RQI Investors’ proprietary systems and data.
Andrew Francis, Chief Executive of RQI Investors said: “These promotions reflect the growth we have experienced as a business and team over the last five years. We have enhanced our product offering with the development of our Diversified Alpha strategies with funds under management growing to A$6.5 billion in the last 3.5 years, alongside our highly successful Value strategies. Both capabilities have delivered strong risk adjusted performance for our clients over the past three years.”