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Global investment manager, First Sentier Investors, today announced changes to its investment capabilities within Australia.
Today, Realindex Investments, an active quantitative equities manager within the First Sentier Investors Group, will be known as RQI Investors. Coinciding with the investment manager’s 15-year anniversary, this name change is the first undertaken since RQI Investors was founded in 2008 and will be accompanied by a new logo and visual identity.
First Sentier Investors is the world-leading provider of specialist investment capabilities. Discover how we provide research-led active investment management.
RQI Investors, an active quantitative equities manager within the First Sentier Investors group, has today announced the launch of the RQI Australian Diversified Alpha Long Short Fund (the Fund), with UniSuper providing seed investment of $500 million.
Australia currently has a unique opportunity to set up a framework that can support investment aligned with the nation’s sustainability goals, by means of the Australian Sustainable Finance Strategy (“the Strategy”).
In a recent episode of First Sentier Investors' Curious Podcast, David Wilson, Deputy Head of Australian Equities Growth, discusses the significant volatility observed during the February 2025 interim reporting season.
Leveraging our recent paper, ‘Reducing carbon intensity in portfolios: Better news than you think’, which analysed the investment impact of reducing carbon exposure versus the benchmark; we turn our attention to how we can reduce carbon risk in our Value strategies.
It’s easy to follow the crowd into some of the world’s largest and most expensive companies. It’s much harder to invest with a contrarian focus on the metrics that really matter. Investing from a global universe of 15,000 stocks across Australian, Global and Emerging markets, Andrew Francis, Chief Executive of $32.2 billion investment firm RQI Investors, shares his learnings about the mistakes that weigh investors down in global markets and the unconventional yet telling data his team focus on.
Diversified Alpha is a core systematic strategy designed to deliver consistent, risk-adjusted returns above the benchmark, with Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) considerations embedded into the process.
What are zombie firms? How can they affect Australian investors?
RQI Investors’ quantitative value strategies have a long history of outperformance versus peers and value indices. Our disciplined, highly active, and repeatable value investing process provides investors with a benchmark unaware, diversified equity portfolio that is cost competitive versus fundamental active stock pickers.
Time flies in the world of investments, and the themes that were emerging last year have gathered speed since then. Late in 2021 we published a Realinsights paper on the long-term relationship between inflation and Value-style investing, focused on whether the inflation spike we had been seeing on the back of the COVID lockdown and stimulus packages would drive outperformance of Value compared to Growth-style investments. Events have moved swiftly since then, including the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict; high realised and anticipated inflation; and a risk of a global recession. In this context, we have revisited the question of how Value stocks are performing.
Andrew Greenup and George Thornely explore the performance of the Global Listed Infrastructure Securities asset class and look ahead to the main themes expected to impact this asset class over the years ahead.
Discover how our equity managers with one of Australia's longest track records provide capital and income growth by investing in the Australian share market.
Despite the extraordinary events since its launch in June 2007 – including the Global Financial Crisis, volatile commodity prices, and political upheaval in many parts of the world – the strategy has delivered strong, consistent returns through a focus on valuation, quality and active management.
How to tell if companies are talking the talk instead of walking the walk – and why it’s so important to find out
2024 was a good year for global listed infrastructure. Strong earnings for energy midstream and a step-change in the earnings growth outlook for utilities helped the asset class to shrug off rising bond yields and political uncertainty.
Concentration in equity markets has reached unprecedented levels, particularly in the United States. A select few mega-cap stocks, colloquially referred to as the "Magnificent 7," now dominate market indices, reflecting a convergence of technological innovation, speculative enthusiasm, and the allure of generative AI.
Over the last decade the electricity sector has been at the forefront of decarbonisation, ahead of transport, industry and agriculture.
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