QuantumStreet AI Launches Long-Short Equity Strategy

The AI-driven investment strategy helps investors navigate market volatility.

Mar. 12, 2026 at 7:20pm

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QuantumStreet AI, an IBM partner company, has announced the launch of its Long-Short Global Equity strategy, designed to provide institutional investors with enhanced global equity exposure and improved risk-return characteristics. The strategy employs a long-short 130/30 framework and is built on QuantumStreet's proprietary machine learning system, which integrates structured financial data and unstructured data sources such as global news flow and regulatory filings.

Why it matters

With elevated valuations, trade disruption, and geopolitical instability putting pressure on traditional portfolios, the QuantumStreet AI strategy gives allocators a systematic way to maintain equity market exposure while hedging against drawdowns.

The details

The strategy is benchmarked against the MSCI World Index and in backtesting from February 2012 through November 2025, it produced an annualized return of 22.91%, compared with 11.50% for the MSCI World Index. Its Sharpe ratio was 1.41, versus 0.82 for the benchmark, meaning the strategy generated better performance for each unit of volatility. The strategy's underlying machine learning system uses proprietary knowledge graphs to connect various data sources, generating investment signals that adapt dynamically to shifting market regimes.

  • The strategy was launched on March 12, 2026.
  • The backtesting period 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.

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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 new Long-Short Global Equity strategy leverages advanced AI and machine learning to provide institutional investors with a systematic way to maintain equity market exposure while hedging against market volatility and drawdowns, a valuable tool in the current environment of elevated valuations, trade disruption, and geopolitical instability.