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AQR Apex UCITS Fund

Alternative · Global · Risk Premia

Figures refer to the share class ISIN LU1532679443, currency USD, retail share class.

Fund documents

For the share class shown above.

Factsheet: not publicly available (published only behind the manager's login).

KIID (PDF, 09.02.2026)

Key facts

Management company
AQR Capital Management LLC
Asset class
Alternative
Geography
Global
Strategy
Risk Premia
Share class currency
USD
Share class inception
01.02.2017
Fund size
4036 million (as at 15.09.2026)
Management fee
1.20%
Performance fee
Yes
Liquidity
Not available in this publication
UCITS
Yes
Risk grade (SRRI)
Not available in this publication
Registered in Switzerland
Yes

Price history

Fund and benchmark rebased to 100 at 02.10.2023.

100110120130140150202420252026135.6151.2Fund (share class shown)Benchmark100110120130140150202420252026135.6151.2Fund (share class shown)Benchmark
Table view
PeriodFromFund (100 at start)Benchmark (100 at start)
1Y03.10.2025112.9110.0
Since 202302.10.2023151.2135.6

Total return: distributions reinvested.
In USD, the currency of the share class shown.
Fund history to 29.09.2026.
Benchmark history to 28.09.2026.
The table shows each series at its own ending date; the comparison periods are not identical.
Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results, and the value of investments can fall as well as rise.

Performance against the benchmark

021YTD: Fund 4.94%YTD: USD 3-month deposit + 6% 6.63%YTD1Y: Fund 12.11%1Y: USD 3-month deposit + 6% 10.27%1Y3Y p.a.: Fund 15.05%3Y p.a.: USD 3-month deposit + 6% 11.11%3Y p.a.5Y p.a.: Fund 17.40%5Y p.a.: USD 3-month deposit + 6% 10.19%5Y p.a.2025: Fund 15.52%2025: USD 3-month deposit + 6% 10.78%20252024: Fund 21.22%2024: USD 3-month deposit + 6% 11.82%20242023: Fund 13.04%2023: USD 3-month deposit + 6% 11.63%2023Fund (share class shown)BenchmarkYTDYTD: Fund 4.94%4.94YTD: USD 3-month deposit + 6% 6.63%6.631Y1Y: Fund 12.11%12.111Y: USD 3-month deposit + 6% 10.27%10.273Y p.a.3Y p.a.: Fund 15.05%15.053Y p.a.: USD 3-month deposit + 6% 11.11%11.115Y p.a.5Y p.a.: Fund 17.40%17.405Y p.a.: USD 3-month deposit + 6% 10.19%10.1920252025: Fund 15.52%15.522025: USD 3-month deposit + 6% 10.78%10.7820242024: Fund 21.22%21.222024: USD 3-month deposit + 6% 11.82%11.8220232023: Fund 13.04%13.042023: USD 3-month deposit + 6% 11.63%11.63Fund (share class shown)Benchmark
1M3M6MYTD2025202420231Y3Y5YVolatilitySharpe R.Max DD
FundISIN LU1532679443, currency USD, retail share class3.116.354.104.9415.5221.2213.0412.1115.0517.407.221.36-4.05
BenchmarkUSD 3-month deposit + 6%0.822.464.976.6310.7811.8211.6310.2711.1110.19–––
Differencefund minus benchmark, in percentage points2.293.90-0.87-1.694.749.401.411.833.947.21–––

Within the list: OpenList — Alternatives

Compared with the alternative funds on OpenList — Alternatives (25 funds), each in the share class and currency its list shows. Returns are in each share class's own currency and are not converted.

This fundGroup medianPosition
Return 1Y12.119.409 of 25
Return 3Y p.a.15.0511.354 of 25
3Y p.a. over its own benchmark3.942.469 of 25
Volatility 3Y7.225.4221 of 25
Sharpe ratio 3Y1.361.3411 of 25
Max drawdown 3Y-4.05-3.4019 of 25
Management fee1.20%1.01%14 of 23 (2 without a value)

Position 1 is the highest value, except for volatility and the management fee, where 1 is the lowest; for max drawdown, 1 is the smallest fall.

Return against risk, 3 years

026Return 3Y p.a. (%)Volatility 3Y (%)013Bankinter International Fund SICAV Total Return: volatility 6.07%, return 9.04% p.a.Zest Derivatives Allocation Fund: volatility 3.85%, return 6.75% p.a.KL Event Driven UCITS Fund: volatility 2.93%, return 9.22% p.a.Longchamp Patrimoine Fund: volatility 8.07%, return 15.13% p.a.JPMorgan Europe Equity Absolute Alpha Fund: volatility 4.72%, return 12.21% p.a.Neuberger US Equity Premium Fund: volatility 6.34%, return 13.24% p.a.BlackRock Systematic Asia Pacific Equity Absolute Return Fund: volatility 4.61%, return 14.41% p.a.BlackRock Systematic Style Factor Absolute Return: volatility 6.35%, return 14.40% p.a.Lazard Rathmore Alternative Fund: volatility 1.70%, return 7.05% p.a.Schroder GAIA Contour Tech Equity: volatility 11.58%, return 23.65% p.a.Jupiter Merian Global Equity Absolute Return Fund: volatility 3.67%, return 12.41% p.a.Multilabel Enpacl Flessibile: volatility 6.10%, return 8.49% p.a.Amber Equity Fund: volatility 8.56%, return 14.84% p.a.RAM European Market Neutral Equity: volatility 5.42%, return 10.23% p.a.Polar Capital Global Absolute Return Fund: volatility 4.81%, return 11.35% p.a.Absolute Return Multi Premium Fonds: volatility 4.03%, return 7.25% p.a.Sauren Ruhestandsfonds: volatility 3.72%, return 7.21% p.a.HP&P Stiftungsfonds: volatility 5.92%, return 12.56% p.a.PIMCO Emerging Markets Short-Term Local Currency Fund: volatility 5.75%, return 9.44% p.a.BCV Liquid Alternative Beta: volatility 5.22%, return 10.29% p.a.THEAM Equity Europe Dynamic Factor Defensive: volatility 6.95%, return 13.55% p.a.Lafayette Dalton Asia Pacific UCITS Fund: volatility 8.26%, return 15.10% p.a.Finlabo Dynamic Allocation: volatility 5.28%, return 8.41% p.a.Key Multi-Manager Hedge Fund: volatility 3.42%, return 6.35% p.a.AQR Apex UCITS Fund: volatility 7.22%, return 15.05% p.a.This fund026Return 3Y p.a. (%)Volatility 3Y (%)013Bankinter International Fund SICAV Total Return: volatility 6.07%, return 9.04% p.a.Zest Derivatives Allocation Fund: volatility 3.85%, return 6.75% p.a.KL Event Driven UCITS Fund: volatility 2.93%, return 9.22% p.a.Longchamp Patrimoine Fund: volatility 8.07%, return 15.13% p.a.JPMorgan Europe Equity Absolute Alpha Fund: volatility 4.72%, return 12.21% p.a.Neuberger US Equity Premium Fund: volatility 6.34%, return 13.24% p.a.BlackRock Systematic Asia Pacific Equity Absolute Return Fund: volatility 4.61%, return 14.41% p.a.BlackRock Systematic Style Factor Absolute Return: volatility 6.35%, return 14.40% p.a.Lazard Rathmore Alternative Fund: volatility 1.70%, return 7.05% p.a.Schroder GAIA Contour Tech Equity: volatility 11.58%, return 23.65% p.a.Jupiter Merian Global Equity Absolute Return Fund: volatility 3.67%, return 12.41% p.a.Multilabel Enpacl Flessibile: volatility 6.10%, return 8.49% p.a.Amber Equity Fund: volatility 8.56%, return 14.84% p.a.RAM European Market Neutral Equity: volatility 5.42%, return 10.23% p.a.Polar Capital Global Absolute Return Fund: volatility 4.81%, return 11.35% p.a.Absolute Return Multi Premium Fonds: volatility 4.03%, return 7.25% p.a.Sauren Ruhestandsfonds: volatility 3.72%, return 7.21% p.a.HP&P Stiftungsfonds: volatility 5.92%, return 12.56% p.a.PIMCO Emerging Markets Short-Term Local Currency Fund: volatility 5.75%, return 9.44% p.a.BCV Liquid Alternative Beta: volatility 5.22%, return 10.29% p.a.THEAM Equity Europe Dynamic Factor Defensive: volatility 6.95%, return 13.55% p.a.Lafayette Dalton Asia Pacific UCITS Fund: volatility 8.26%, return 15.10% p.a.Finlabo Dynamic Allocation: volatility 5.28%, return 8.41% p.a.Key Multi-Manager Hedge Fund: volatility 3.42%, return 6.35% p.a.AQR Apex UCITS Fund: volatility 7.22%, return 15.05% p.a.This fund

WSP commentary

Draft commentary, machine-generated from the fund's key investor information document dated 09.02.2026, not yet reviewed by WSP.

Investment rationale

The fund seeks diversified long-term returns through a multi-strategy approach that combines long and short positions across single-name stocks and macro derivatives. With a synthetic risk and reward indicator of 5, and an expected target volatility generally ranging from 5% to 15%, it sits in a higher-risk segment driven by frequent and potentially large price movements in its underlying investments. Its use of lowly correlated sub-strategies, market-neutral elements, and arbitrage exposures makes it a distinct choice for investors seeking systematic, diversified alternatives rather than a traditional long-only allocation. Investors may redeem on five business days’ notice.

Investment strategy

The stated objective is to provide diversified returns over the long term using a data-driven, systematic multi-strategy process. The fund invests directly or indirectly in long and short opportunities in single-name stocks and macro derivatives, and implements three sub-strategies: macro, stock selection, and arbitrage. Instruments include global equities and equity-like securities, including China A shares and SPACs, contracts for difference, swaps, total return swaps, bond futures, interest rate swaps, credit default swaps, credit default index swaps, volatility futures, currency forwards including emerging-market and non-deliverable forwards, and fixed income securities including government and corporate bonds, inflation-linked bonds, structured notes, and asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities up to 20% of net assets. The fund is actively managed and is not managed in reference to a benchmark, although the ML 3 Month T Bill Index is used as the reference for the performance fee; income is retained for reinvestment, and short positions are implemented using financial derivatives.

Investment philosophy

• The portfolio is built through a data-driven, systematic investment process that seeks diversified returns from a wide range of lowly correlated sub-strategies.

• The macro sub-strategy expresses directional and market-neutral views across equity indices, fixed income, currencies and commodities.

• The stock selection sub-strategy expresses market-neutral views across thousands of single-name stocks within a variety of peer comparison groups.

• The arbitrage sub-strategy seeks to harvest liquidity premia associated with supply and demand imbalances across mergers, converts and event-driven sub-strategies.

• The fund uses financial derivatives extensively, including total return swaps and short positions, may use reverse repurchase agreements for efficient portfolio management, and limits asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities to up to 20% of net assets.

The asset manager

The management company for the fund is FundRock Management Company S.A. The fund is a sub-fund of AQR UCITS Funds. FundRock Management Company S.A. is authorised in Luxembourg and supervised by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier.

Strengths

The fund combines three distinct sub-strategies—macro, stock selection and arbitrage—within one vehicle, aiming to diversify return sources through lowly correlated exposures. It invests across both long and short opportunities and uses market-neutral as well as directional positions, which differentiates it from traditional long-only funds. Its investable universe is broad, spanning global single-name equities, macro derivatives, currencies, commodities and fixed income instruments, including Chinese equity securities such as China A shares. The fund also promotes ESG characteristics and discloses under Article 8 of Regulation (EU) 2019/2088.

Risks

The fund is in risk category 5 because of the high range and frequency of price movements in the underlying investments referenced by the fund. Risks specifically named include derivatives risk, as derivatives used for hedging, investment purposes or currency management may be unsuccessful and lead to losses; leverage risk, where leveraged exposure can amplify losses; and counterparty risk from derivative contracts if a counterparty fails to make payments or becomes insolvent. The fund is also exposed to currency market risk, including potentially sharp short-term price swings, and emerging-markets risk, where lower levels of regulation and supervision and higher settlement default risk can affect investment value. Bond risk is also relevant, particularly where issuers fail to make payments or where holdings are below investment grade, unrecognised, or backed by riskier assets such as mortgages; the fund further states that investment is not guaranteed and may lose some or all capital.

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Performance: in %, in the currency of the share class shown. 3Y and 5Y are annualised. Volatility and Sharpe ratio are over three years; Max DD is the largest fall over three years.
Benchmark: each fund is measured against the index its own documents name. Where WSP measures a fund against a comparator of its own instead, the row names it: a tracker or a blend of the markets the fund invests in, or a cash-plus hurdle
– means not applicable. "Not available in this publication" means no value is shown here; it does not mean zero.
Period figures as of 31.08.2026.

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