Cliff Asness
Also known as Clifford Asness, Clifford S. Asness
Quantitative investor; co-founded AQR Capital Management in 1998.
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- Cliff Asness is an American hedge fund manager, born in Queens in 1966.
- He earned a PhD in finance at the University of Chicago under Eugene Fama.
- His dissertation studied momentum trading.
- He ran a quantitative research team at Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
- In 1998 he co-founded AQR Capital Management.
Key facts
- Born
- 17 October 1966, Queens, New York1
- Education
- University of Pennsylvania (1988); University of Chicago MBA (1991) and PhD in finance (1994)1
- Goldman Sachs
- Led the quantitative research team at Goldman Sachs Asset Management until 1997; Global Alpha fund1
- Co-founded
- AQR Capital Management (1998), with David Kabiller, John Liew and Robert Krail1
- Research
- Value and Momentum Everywhere, with Tobias Moskowitz and Lasse Pedersen (Journal of Finance, 2013)1
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