AQR Risk Parity II HV Fund

Data updated: 2020-11-20

C000145943 — AQR Risk Parity II HV Fund. Money Market · $23.96M AUM · 1.39% expense ratio · 0.6% 1-yr return. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.

C000145943 Fund Overview

AQR Risk Parity II HV Fund is a US mutual fund managed by AQR Funds, categorised as Money Market. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.

Type: US mutual fund
Manager: AQR Funds
Category: Money Market
Assets under management: $23.96M
1-year return: 0.6%
SEC CIK: 0001444822
SEC series ID: S000038749
Share class ID: C000145943

C000145943 Investment Objective and Strategy

AQR Risk Parity II HV Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by AQR Funds.

Investment objective

The AQR Risk Parity II HV Fund (the Fund) seeks total return. Total return consists of capital appreciation and income.

Principal investment strategy

"The Fund pursues its investment objective by allocating assets among major liquid asset classes (including global developed and emerging market equities, global nominal and inflation-linked government bonds, developed and emerging market currencies, and commodities). The Fund intends to gain exposure to these asset classes by investing in a portfolio of Instruments (as defined below). The Fund will generally have some level of investment in the majority of asset classes and Instruments but there is no stated limit on the percentage of assets the Fund can invest in a particular Instrument or the percentage of assets the Fund will allocate to any one asset class, and at times the Fund may focus on a small number of Instruments or asset classes. The allocation among the different asset classes is based on the Advisers assessment of the risk associated with the asset class, the investment opportunity presented by each asset class, as well as the Advisers assessment of prevailing market conditions within the asset classes in the United States and abroad.

The ""HV"" in the Fund's name reflects its ""higher volatility"" approach. The Adviser, on average, will target an annualized volatility level for the Fund of 15%. Volatility is a statistical measurement of the dispersion of returns of a security or fund or index, as measured by the annualized standard deviation of its returns. The Adviser expects that the Fund's targeted annualized forecasted volatility will typically range between 10% and 20%; however, the actual or realized volatility level for longer or shorter periods may be materially higher or lower depending on market conditions. Higher volatility generally indicates higher risk. Actual or realized volatility can and will differ from the forecasted or target volatility described above. There is no guarantee the Fund's investment objective will be met.

In allocating assets among asset classes, the Adviser follows a risk parity approach. The risk parity approach to asset allocation seeks to balance the allocation of risk across asset classes (as measured by forecasted volatility, estimated potential loss, and other proprietary measures) when building the portfolio. This means that lower risk asset classes (such as global fixed income) will generally have higher notional allocations than higher risk asset classes (such as global equities). The neutral asset allocation targets an equal risk allocation from each of the three following major risk sources: equity risk, fixed income risk and inflation risk. The Adviser expects to tactically vary the Funds allocation to the various asset classes depending on market conditions, which can cause the Fund to deviate from a neutral position.

The desired overall risk level of the Fund may be increased or decreased by the Adviser. There can be no assurance that employing a risk parity approach will achieve any particular level or return or will reduce volatility or potential loss. Generally, the Fund gains exposure to asset classes by investing in many different types of instruments including, but not limited to: equity securities, equity futures, equity swaps, currency forwards, currency futures, commodity futures, commodity forwards, commodity swaps, bond futures, fixed income swaps, interest rate swaps, inflation swaps, U.S. and foreign government bonds (including inflation-linked bonds), cash and cash equivalents including but not limited to money market fund shares (collectively, the Instruments), either by investing directly in those Instruments, or indirectly by investing in the Subsidiary (as described below) that invests in those Instruments.

There is no maximum or minimum exposure to any one Instrument or any one asset class. The Fund may also invest in exchange-traded funds or exchange-traded notes through which the Fund can participate in the performance of one or more Instruments. The Fund is actively managed and the Adviser will vary the Funds exposures to the asset classes based on the Advisers evaluation of investment opportunities within and across the asset classes. The Adviser will use proprietary volatility forecasting and portfolio construction methodologies to manage the Fund. Shifts in allocations among asset classes or Instruments will be determined using models based on the Advisers general investment philosophy centered on systematizing fundamental insights, using themes such as value, momentum and carry, as well as a number of additional quantitative indicators based on the Advisers research.

The Fund has no geographic limits on where its investments may be located or where its assets may be exposed. This flexibility allows the Adviser to look for investments or gain exposure to asset classes and markets around the world, including emerging markets, that it believes will enhance the Funds ability to meet its objective. The Fund may have exposure to fixed income securities of U.S. and non-U.S. issuers of any credit quality, including securities that are unrated or are rated in the lowest credit rating categories. The Fund may have exposure to equity securities of companies of any market capitalization. There is no percentage limit on the Funds exposure to below investment-grade fixed income securities including emerging market fixed income securities or to small less-liquid equity securities.

The Fund may have exposure in long and short positions across all of the asset classes, however, short positions will generally only be taken to hedge other investments made by the Fund. The Adviser does not anticipate that the Fund will be net short any particular market. Futures and forward contracts are contractual agreements to buy or sell a particular currency, commodity or financial instrument at a pre-determined price in the future. The Funds use of futures contracts, forward contracts, swaps and certain other Instruments will have the economic effect of financial leverage. Financial leverage magnifies exposure to the swings in prices of an asset class underlying an Instrument and results in increased volatility, which means the Fund will have the potential for greater gains, as well as the potential for greater losses, than if the Fund does not use Instruments that have a leveraging effect.

Leveraging tends to magnify, sometimes significantly, the effect of any increase or decrease in the Funds exposure to an asset class and may cause the Funds NAV to experience greater volatility. There is no assurance that the Funds use of Instruments providing enhanced exposure will enable the Fund to achieve its investment objective. As a result of the Funds strategy, the Fund may have highly leveraged exposure to one or more asset classes at times. The 1940 Act and the rules and interpretations thereunder impose certain limitations on the Funds ability to use leverage; however, the Fund is not subject to any additional limitations on its exposures. When taking into account derivative instruments and instruments with a maturity of one year or less at the time of acquisition, the Funds strategy will result in frequent portfolio trading and high portfolio turnover (typically greater than 100%).

A significant portion of the assets of the Fund may be invested directly or indirectly in money market instruments, which may include, but are not be limited to, U.S. Government securities, U.S. Government agency securities, short-term fixed income securities, overnight and/or fixed term repurchase agreements, money market mutual fund shares, and cash and cash equivalents with one year or less term to maturity. These cash or cash equivalent holdings serve as collateral for the positions the Fund takes and also earn income for the Fund. The Fund may also enter into repurchase and reverse repurchase agreements. Under a repurchase agreement the Fund buys securities that the seller has agreed to buy back at a specified time and at a set price. Under a reverse repurchase agreement, the Fund sells securities to another party and agrees to repurchase them at a particular date and price.

Leverage may be created when the Fund enters into reverse repurchase agreements, engages in futures and swap transactions or uses certain other derivative instruments. The Fund intends to make investments through the Subsidiary and may invest up to 25% of its total assets in the Subsidiary. The Subsidiary is a wholly-owned and controlled subsidiary of the Fund, organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands as an exempted company. Generally, the Subsidiary will invest primarily in commodity futures, forwards and swaps but it may also invest in financial futures, option and swap contracts, fixed income securities, pooled investment vehicles, including those that are not registered pursuant to the 1940 Act, and other investments intended to serve as margin or collateral for the Subsidiarys derivative positions.

The Fund will invest in the Subsidiary in order to gain exposure to the commodities markets within the limitations of the federal tax laws, rules and regulations that apply to registered investment companies. Unlike the Fund, the Subsidiary may invest without limitation in commodity-linked derivative instruments, however, the Subsidiary will comply with the same 1940 Act asset coverage requirements with respect to its investments in commodity-linked derivatives that are applicable to the Funds transactions in derivatives. In addition, the Fund and the Subsidiary will be subject to the same fundamental investment restrictions on a consolidated basis and, to the extent applicable to the investment activities of the Subsidiary, the Subsidiary will follow the same compliance policies and procedures as the Fund.

Unlike the Fund, the Subsidiary will not seek to qualify as a regulated investment company under Subchapter M of the Code. The Fund is the sole shareholder of the Subsidiary and does not expect shares of the Subsidiary to be offered or sold to other investors."

C000145943 Performance

Total returns for C000145943 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.

Period	Total return
1 year	0.6%

C000145943 Risk Information

Risk metrics for C000145943, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.

1-year volatility (annualised): 15.1%

C000145943 Costs and Fees

C000145943 costs about $139 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.

Net expense ratio: 1.39%
Gross expense ratio: 2.12%
Portfolio turnover: 118%
Brokerage commissions: 6.35 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)

C000145943 Cashflows

Over the 12 months to 2020-09, AQR Risk Parity II HV Fund had net outflows of $3.90M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.

Month	Net flow
2020-09	$248.18K
2020-08	−$696.88K
2020-07	−$4.46M
2020-06	−$192.30K
2020-05	−$1.43M
2020-04	−$413.05K

C000145943 Debt Constituents

No individual debt constituents are reported in AQR Risk Parity II HV Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.

C000145943 Prospectus and SEC Filings

Official AQR Risk Parity II HV Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.

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Data Sources

ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.