Apostle Funds Management partners with Qtron Investments to deliver leading global quantitative strategies
Mitchell Gunman
Apostle Funds Management (Apostle) has partnered with US-based quantitative investment manager Qtron Investments (Qtron) to deliver Australian wholesale and institutional investors access to its global equity strategies. This marks the first time Qtron is offering its investment strategies to Australian investors, and Apostle will be setting up funds for the wholesale market to access the range of Qtron products.
Founded in 2016, Qtron specialises in emerging market equities, global enhanced equities, global small cap equities, and global long/short equities and has AUM US$1.25 billion*. The firm combines data-driven models with human insight to deliver outperformance.
Apostle’s Managing Director Mitchell Gunman said, “We believe there is a gap in the market for quantitative strategies, and Qtron addresses this by combining a disciplined quantitative approach with active research to ensure portfolios remain adaptive and consistently alpha seeking.
In their investment process, Qtron astutely identifies unique opportunities through diversified, idiosyncratic factor exposures at the stock level, rather than relying on broad sector or country bets. Its strong research culture and team-based process underpin resilient portfolios designed to perform across market cycles, offering Australian investors a differentiated source of potential alpha.”
Qtron Founder and Portfolio Manager Dmitri Kantsyrev said, “We combine a disciplined quantitative framework with qualitative insights to make our models more adaptive and effective. As researchers, we distil intricate data to uncover patterns, and translate complexity into actionable insights to enhance the core of investment decision-making. We are excited to partner with Apostle to bring our strategies to investors across Australia.”
This partnership continues Apostle’s commitment to aligning with specialist global managers who offer alternative, institutional-grade investment strategies, enhancing its ability to deliver both performance and diversification for Australian investors.
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