Qblue Balanced Alternative Risk Premia Fund wins Best Performing Fund over 5 Years

Qblue Balanced is pleased to announce that the Qblue Balanced Alternative Risk Premia Fund has been named Best Performing Fund over 5 Years at The Hedge Fund Journal’s CTA and Discretionary Trader Awards 2026.

The award recognises the fund’s performance since launch and reflects the strength and consistency of its investment approach.

Launched in mid-2019, the Qblue Balanced Alternative Risk Premia Fund follows one clear strategy: delivering returns that are uncorrelated to traditional equity and bond markets, with no style drift.

Over the past five years, the strategy has been tested through several significant market stress events, including the COVID liquidity shock in March 2020, the 2022 correlation breakdown, and the sharp global equity drawdown around Liberation Day 2025.

Across these periods, the fund has continued to perform as designed: seeking to provide diversification when investors need it most.

The strategy is built on ten proprietary sub-strategies across four asset classes. Each position is grounded in an economic rationale, and each strategy has an academic basis. Rather than relying on a “black box” approach, the fund reflects Qblue Balanced’s long-standing experience in systematic investing and portfolio construction through changing market environments.

The fund is managed by the Copenhagen-based Qblue Balanced team, including Bjarne Graven Larsen, Lars Hougaard Nielsen and Martin Christian Richter, supported by a team with deep experience in systematic portfolios and risk management.

We are proud to receive this recognition and grateful to our clients and partners for their continued trust.

Award: Best Performing Fund over 5 Years

Fund: Qblue Balanced Alternative Risk Premia Fund

Awarding body: The Hedge Fund Journal, CTA and Discretionary Trader Awards 2026