The Quality Low Volatility strategy is designed to deliver resilient equity exposure with reduced volatility—through every market cycle.

Many low volatility strategies aim to reduce risk—but often at the cost of return potential or unintended exposures. QLV takes a smarter approach, combining quality with disciplined portfolio construction to help mitigate common pitfalls like sector bias and limited upside. The result: a strategy built to pursue more consistent, risk-adjusted returns over time.

• Historically favorable up and down market capture profile
• Potential for risk-adjusted returns
• A focus on Quality – management efficiency, profitability, and cash flow – drives security selection

A Multi-Factor Model with High Quality and Low Volatility

Quality helps identify and avoid companies within the low volatility universe that have the lowest return and the highest realized risk.

The intersection of high quality and low volatility companies is targeted to avoid sole reliance on historical volatility and add a source of compensated risk.

Why invest with Northern Trust Asset Management?

We seek to add investment value across several essential dimensions