The firm, which was formerly called Realindex Investments and is part of First Sentier Investors, rebranded earlier this year.
Joanna Nash and Ron Guido have been promoted to head of portfolio management and head of alpha research respectively.
In her expanded role of head of portfolio management, Nash will have oversight of the final portfolio outcomes in terms of performance, client expectations and attribution. Meanwhile, Guido will lead the research of new alpha ideas, improve existing ideas, and deepen the team’s understanding of model attribution.
Both Nash and Guido previously worked at BlackRock prior to joining RQI, where Nash was head of sustainable investment in Australia and Guido was portfolio manager for systematic active equities.
Scott Hamilton has also been promoted to head of portfolio construction and engineering in addition to his role as senior quantitative researcher.
Hamilton leads portfolio engineering using the team’s extensive research, signals and insights backed by RQI Investors’ proprietary systems and data. Prior to joining RQI, Hamilton was director of applied research at Axioma and spent 18 years at Macquarie Bank.
Andrew Francis, chief executive of RQI Investors, said: “These promotions reflect the growth we have experienced as a business and team over the last five years.
“We have enhanced our product offering with the development of our Diversified Alpha strategies, with funds under management growing to $6.5 billion in the last 3.5 years, alongside our highly successful Value strategies. Both capabilities have delivered strong risk adjusted performance for our clients over the past three years.”
