AQR Long-Short Equity Fund
Actively managed U.S. stock fund
As of its 2026 Q2 report, AQR Long-Short Equity Fund held 1,903 positions with $7.86B in net assets. Its ten largest holdings made up 42.3% of the fund. The QLEIX share class costs 5.78% a year. Over the 12 months to May 2026, QLEIX returned 16.1%, with dividends reinvested. In 2026 Q2 it added 171 new positions and exited 97.
The AQR Long-Short Equity Fund (the Fund) seeks capital appreciation.
The fund uses proprietary quantitative models to identify undervalued and overvalued equities across global developed markets, taking long positions in securities forecast to rise and short positions in those forecast to fall. The strategy targets a portfolio beta of 0.5 (typically ranging 0.3 to 0.7) combined with 4–9% of active volatility from security selection, and employs a tactical overlay to adjust net equity exposure based on market conditions. Because the fund's returns depend on the accuracy of its forecasts across hundreds of signals and multiple time horizons, performance will diverge from broad market returns if those forecasts prove incorrect. The fund uses financial leverage through derivatives, which magnifies both gains and losses.
What you own
| Company | Weight | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|
Limited Purpose Cash Investment Fund | 22.25% | $1.75B | — |
United States of America | 2.49% | $195.86M | — |
United States of America | 2.47% | $194.15M | — |
United States of America | 2.40% | $189.03M | — |
United States of America | 2.39% | $187.93M | — |
United States of America | 2.28% | $179.35M | — |
United States of America | 2.28% | $178.95M | — |
United States of America | 1.90% | $149.67M | — |
United States of America | 1.90% | $149.57M | — |
United States of America | 1.89% | $148.82M | — |
The 200 largest of 1,903 holdings, with the share counts as filed, open with a free account.
What the fund is made of
Percentages are of fund net assets. Rounding, liabilities and short positions can make totals differ from 100%.
| Cash & short-term | 54.63% |
| Stocks | 8.43% |
| Other | 0.49% |
| Derivatives | 0.25% |
These positions come to 63.80% of net assets. Not everything a fund owns is reported as a holding — uninvested cash is collected at fund level instead — so the total is not expected to reach 100%.
Derivatives are shown at market value, not notional exposure.
By sector
- International
- 33.5%
- Cash
- 18.9%
- Financials
- 8.5%
- Industrials
- 8.4%
- 10 other sectors
- 30.7%
- International
- 33.5%
- Cash
- 18.9%
- Financials
- 8.5%
- Industrials
- 8.4%
- Information Technology
- 7.4%
- Consumer Discretionary
- 5.9%
- Health Care
- 4.9%
- Consumer Staples
- 2.6%
- Real Estate
- 2.3%
- Energy
- 2.2%
- Utilities
- 1.9%
- Communication Services
- 1.7%
- Materials
- 1.7%
- Other
- 0.1%
How it has done
QLEIX share class · total returns with dividends reinvested
Volatility over the last 12 months: 7.29%. Past returns are a record, not a forecast.
Jun 2026 has been filed since the trailing figures were struck, so it is not in the table above or the curve — every figure here shares one cut-off, which is what makes them comparable with other funds.
The 3 share classes hold the same portfolio
| Share class | Expense ratio | 1 year | 3 years | 5 years | Worst fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.78% | +16.06% | +109.36% | +165.97% | -2.98% | |
| 6.06% | +15.77% | +107.77% | +162.61% | -3.02% | |
| 5.68% | +16.18% | +109.85% | +167.22% | -2.95% |
These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 4.61pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 0.92pp a year — not a difference in what they own.
Fees & fund details
AQR Long-Short Equity Fund is an actively managed U.S. equity fund.
- Asset class
- Equity
- Region
- United States
- Management
- Actively managed
- Fund type
- Open-end fund
- Expense ratio, by class
- 5.68% – 6.06%· QLEIX 5.78%
- Portfolio turnover
- 296.00% a year · as of 2026 Q2
Turnover is how much of the portfolio was replaced in a year.
Classified from what the fund holds, not from its name · 2026 Q2. The summary is a paraphrase of the prospectus; the objective is verbatim.
What changed this quarter
Positions that entered or left the fund since its previous filing. Positions that were only resized are not listed.
171 new· the largest 4
97 exited· the largest 3
Debt profile
What this fund holds — value-weighted across its bond and securitized long positions · as of 2026-06-30
Based on what filers reported; a filer that never reported a flag also reads as none.
Risk profile
Interest-rate and credit-spread sensitivity, both in years · as of 2026Q2
This fund filed the credit-spread disclosure and reported no sensitivity — measured, and the answer is none.
Where the loss would come from. The two shocks are the same size, so this is the balance of the fund's two sensitivities rather than a bet on one moving more.
| Interest rates | 100% |
Filers report the impact of a 0.01% move only, so the total is our own scaling of that one number and overstates the loss on most bonds — read it as approximate, never as precise. The two sensitivities overlap rather than add up: they measure the same positions against different shocks, which is why the durations above are shown side by side and never summed.
Share of duration at each point, shortest first. This filer signs its rate and credit disclosures differently; the direction shown follows its interest-rate filing, and a negative reading is the least-supported figure here.
| 3 mo | 0.06 yr | 93% |
| 1 yr | 0.00 yr | 7% |
Show the numbers
| Tenor | Rate yrs | IG yrs | HY yrs | IG $/bp | HY $/bp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | +0.06 | +0.00 | +0.00 | $0 | $0 |
| 1 yr | +0.00 | +0.00 | +0.00 | $0 | $0 |
| 5 yr | +0.00 | +0.00 | +0.00 | $0 | $0 |
| 10 yr | +0.00 | +0.00 | +0.00 | $0 | $0 |
| 30 yr | +0.00 | +0.00 | +0.00 | $0 | $0 |
Dollar change per 1bp of spread movement, as filed and sign-anchored. A blank cell was not filed; a zero was.
Duration contribution in years, summing to the fund's 0.06 yr.
This is where the fund's rate exposure sits, not its currency risk — most international bond funds hedge the currency back to dollars, and the size of those hedges is not in the filing. Tenors are also summed across curves, so a 5-year JPY point and a 5-year USD point are added together.
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