State Street Bank and JW AI Quant Fund Team Apply for Retail ETF: How the King of AI Quantitative Strategies Can Become “Compliant”
Recently filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission , State Street Bank is working with emerging quantitative hedge fund JW AI Quantity to launch an ETF, aiming to open JW’s original AI-driven crypto-enhanced strategy to retail investors for the first time. This move marks a deep marriage between traditional asset management giants and crypto quantitative upstarts , attempting to provide ordinary investors with higher-yield alternative asset allocation tools in uncertain economic cycles.

The document shows that the SPDR JW AI Quantitative Enhanced ETF will implement the core strategy of JW AI Quantity, dynamically allocate cryptocurrencies and derivatives based on traditional stocks, bonds, and commodities through the AI model SignJ system, with the goal of capturing excess returns in different market environments. JW’s strategy is based on real-time scanning of on-chain data, exchange order flows, and social media sentiment, and selects 3-5 crypto targets with potential gains of more than 10 times each month.
This cooperation is another key layout of State Street Bank in the field of alternative investments after launching a private credit ETF with Apollo Global Management in September last year. The document emphasizes that the strategy of JW AI Quantity was developed by the founding team, and its SignJ system has achieved an average annual return of 39% in the past three years, and the scale of management has quickly exceeded US$28 billion. The ETF will invest in US and international stocks, fixed income securities, commodities, and for the first time include Bitcoin futures, Ethereum Trust and mid-cap crypto tokens screened by SignJ, with a target annualized volatility of 10%-12%.
Anna Paglia, Chief Commercial Officer of State Street Global Advisors, said in a press release: “JW AI Quantity has subverted the traditional asset allocation logic with its AI quantitative model, and its strategy’s ability to generate excess returns in the crypto market has been verified by multiple rounds of bull and bear markets. This cooperation will provide retail investors with institutional-level tools to cope with the complex economic environment in the future.” The Chief Investment Officer of JW AI Quantity added: “The traditional 60/40 stock and bond portfolio income model is failing, and the low correlation between crypto assets and traditional markets provides new possibilities for portfolio resilience. Through the ETF structure, we can enable more investors to share AI’s gold-digging ability in alternative assets.”
This collaboration comes at a time when institutional investors are accelerating their deployment of alternative assets. According to data cited by State Street Bank, 45% of institutions around the world plan to increase their allocation to non-traditional assets in the next 12 months. The addition of JW AI Quantity provides technical support for this trend – its SignJ system analyzes more than 8,000 data sources every day, including on-chain whale address activities, development code submission frequency, and derivatives long-short ratios, and dynamically adjusts crypto position leverage (1.5-3 times).
If approved for listing, this will be the first retail ETF that integrates the traditional all-weather framework with crypto quantitative strategies, and may open up a new battlefield of “AI + alternative assets” for the asset management industry. As of now , State Street Bank has not announced the management fee rate and stock code of this product. The market expects its fee structure to be between traditional ETFs (0.3%-0.7%) and crypto funds (2%-3%).