Overview
Our investment philosophy is based on three core principles, built on decades of research and experience. By applying these principles, we seek to deliver sustainable, long-term value for our investors.
Fundamental Investing
We rely on sound economic theory and analysis to help us deliver long-term, repeatable results.
Systematically Applied
A disciplined methodology underlies everything we do. Our investment process, built over 20 years, is based on a continuous process of design, refine, test, repeat.
Thoughtfully Designed
In portfolio construction, risk management and trading, we seek additional value for our clients. Using both qualitative and quantitative tools, we’re meticulous in every detail of the investment process.
Risk Management
Our Risk Management team oversees all aspects of both financial and non-financial risks including Market and Liquidity Risk, Counterparty Risk, Model Risk, Operational Risk, and Technology Risk. The firm employs a robust Enterprise Risk framework, which provides for a strong governance structure and ensures independence in risk making decisions. We believe it’s important for Risk Management to interact closely with the Portfolio Management, Research, and Trading teams, working together in managing risk. Together, we aim to ensure that portfolios are manageable through sudden and severely adverse stress events.
Equities
For nearly two decades, our overall goal has been to build compelling and repeatable investments that are highly diversified across signals and regions, and within a risk-controlled framework. We apply this systematic approach across our strategies, catering to the widespread investment needs of our clients.

Single-Style
Multi-Style
Enhanced
Relaxed Constraint
3-Alpha
Fixed Income
We aim to generate consistent outperformance by systematically applying investment themes across securities. We believe that a multi-factor investment approach, harnessing underlying drivers of performance, will generate excess returns that are uncorrelated to other asset classes as well as traditional fixed income managers.

Absolute Return Credit
A market neutral credit strategy that seeks to deliver positive absolute returns with low correlations to traditional equity and credit markets. It does this by investing both long and short in a diversified portfolio of corporate credit and equity.
Emerging Markets Hard Currency
Seeks excess returns through country, maturity, and currency selection across hard currency and local currency markets. While the strategy includes local currency investments, it takes no beta to local currency debt, engages in no overall duration or spread timing, and targets a beta of one to its hard currency benchmark.
Global Aggregate
Seeks excess returns through country, maturity, credit, and currency selection. The strategy targets the credit and duration profile of the benchmark and so does not seek to engage in duration timing or sector selection.
Global Governments
This strategy seeks excess returns through country, maturity, and currency selection. It engages in minimal duration timing.
High Yield Corporates
Investment themes in this strategy are primarily expressed by within-industry security selection. It does not seek to engage in duration or credit timing.
Investment Grade Corporates
Seeks to outperform a core or long duration corporate benchmark. Our investment themes are primarily expressed by within-industry security selection. The strategy does not seek to engage in duration or credit timing.
U.S. Core Plus
Strategy that seeks excess returns through country, maturity, credit, and currency selection. Out-of-benchmark sectors are strictly used to increase security selection breadth, while still targeting the credit and duration profile of the benchmark, and so does not seek to engage in duration timing or sector selection.
Alternatives
As a pioneer in alternative investing, AQR has a long track record of managing the complexities of these types of strategies. By investing long and short, and balancing exposure to factors and asset classes, our alternative strategies are built to seek returns in both up and down markets. We offer both absolute return strategies, which target zero exposure to traditional markets, either at all times, or on average; and total return strategies, which maintain some exposure to traditional markets.

Absolute Return
Absolute Return Strategy
Arbitrage Strategies
Credit Strategies
Equity Market Neutral
Global Macro
Hedge Fund Premia
Managed Futures
Opportunistic
Real Return
Style Premia
Volatility Strategies
Total Return
Diversified Growth Strategies
Long-Short Equity
Risk Parity
Multi-Strategy
ESG
AQR is committed to helping our clients achieve their Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) goals. Our primary objective for considering ESG issues is improving the risk/return trade-off of our clients' investments. We provide investors a variety of options to achieve their ESG objectives. Find out more about our ESG solutions and philosophy.

Investment Vehicles
AQR strategies are available in a variety of investment vehicles, from offshore limited partnerships to mutual funds and model portfolios. We also offer tax-aware implementation of some of our strategies, which may help taxable investors better reach their after-tax investment goals.

Institutional Investment Vehicles
- Private Funds
- Separate Managed Accounts
- Collective Investment Trusts