QuantumStreet AI Launches Long-Short Equity Strategy

The AI-driven investment strategy helps investors navigate market volatility from geopolitical fractures and elevated valuations.

Published on Mar. 12, 2026

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QuantumStreet AI, an IBM partner company specializing in AI-driven investment solutions, has announced the launch of its Long-Short Global Equity strategy. The strategy is designed to provide institutional investors with enhanced global equity exposure and improved risk-return characteristics, as equity markets face pressure from elevated valuations, trade disruption, and geopolitical instability.

Why it matters

The launch of QuantumStreet AI's Long-Short Global Equity strategy comes at a time when traditional portfolios are facing challenges from market volatility and uncertainty. The strategy provides a systematic way for investors to maintain equity market exposure while hedging against potential drawdowns, which could be particularly valuable in the current environment.

The details

The strategy employs a long-short 130/30 framework, maintaining 130% long and 30% short gross market value, benchmarked against the MSCI World Index. It is built on QuantumStreet's proprietary machine learning system, which integrates structured financial data (including macro, fundamental and technical signals) with unstructured data sources such as global news flow, earnings call transcripts and regulatory filings. In backtesting from February 2012 through November 2025, the strategy produced an annualized return of 22.91%, compared with 11.50% for the MSCI World Index over the same period.

  • The strategy was launched in March 2026.
  • The backtesting period for the strategy was from February 2012 through November 2025.

The players

QuantumStreet AI

An IBM partner company specializing in AI-driven investment solutions.

Art Amador

The President at QuantumStreet AI.

Chris Natividad

The CIO at QuantumStreet AI.

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What they’re saying

“Equity markets are absorbing geopolitical shocks, trade disruption and stretched valuations simultaneously, and that's exactly the kind of environment where the ability to go both long and short matters most.”

— Art Amador, President (PRNewswire)

“Our AI is evaluating macro conditions, fundamentals, technicals, news sentiment and regulatory filings across thousands of securities at the same time, identifying cross-regime patterns and sector dislocations. The scale of unstructured data easily produces unacceptable levels of "noise" if you do not have the right range of models to drill down to alpha-producing signals.”

— Chris Natividad, CIO (PRNewswire)

What’s next

The strategy is available to asset allocators globally, including pensions, endowments, foundations, insurers and asset managers seeking an AI-enhanced alternative to traditional long-short equity approaches.

The takeaway

QuantumStreet AI's launch of its Long-Short Global Equity strategy provides institutional investors with a systematic way to maintain equity market exposure while hedging against potential drawdowns in the current volatile market environment, leveraging the firm's proprietary AI-driven investment approach.