Clifford Asness

About Clifford Asness

Who is it?: AQR Capital Management
Birth Day: October 17, 1966
Birth Place: Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
Alma mater: University of Pennsylvania University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Employer: AQR Capital Management Goldman Sachs
Spouse(s): Laurel Elizabeth Fraser
Parent(s): Carol Asness Barry Asness

Clifford Asness

Clifford Asness was born on October 17, 1966 in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States, is AQR Capital Management. Cliff Asness is the co-founder of AQR Capital Management, a fast-growing money management firm that oversees $195 billion. AQR stands for Applied Quantitative Research. It focuses on factor-based investing, offering products ranging from hedge funds to mutual funds. A Goldman Sachs veteran, Asness was once known for being in the hedge fund game. But AQR has moved away from hedge fund products in recent years. Asness backed lawmakers who supported New York's marriage equality initiative and is a board member of the International Rescue Committee.
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Popular As Clifford Asness
Occupation Finance and Investments
Age 58 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born October 17, 1966 (Greenwich, Connecticut, United States)
Birthday October 17
Town/City Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
Nationality United States

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Biography/Timeline

1997

After completing his PhD, Asness accepted a job with Goldman Sachs as managing Director and Director of quantitative research for Goldman Sachs Asset Management. At Goldman, he founded the Goldman Sachs Global Alpha Fund, a systematic trading hedge fund and one of the earliest "quant vehicles" in the industry. The fund used complicated computerized trading Models to first locate underpriced equities, bonds, currencies, and commodities and then use short selling to take advantage of upward or downward price momentum. The fund was designed to make money regardless of the direction the market was moving. In 1997 he left to found AQR Capital Management.

1999

In 1999, Asness married Laurel Elizabeth Fraser of Seward, Nebraska, the daughter of a retired Methodist pastor. Asness has four children.

2000

He is known for taking some outspoken contrarian stances, like in calling out the tech bubble (Bubble Logic, 2000) and those who claimed options should not be expensed (Stock Options and the Lying Liars Who Don't Want to Expense Them, 2004). He is also known as an outspoken critic of U.S. President Barack Obama. Two tracts he authored protest the Obama administration's treatment of Chrysler senior bondholders.

2007

Asness' dissertation, in opposition to his mentor, asserted that profits consistently beating market averages were attainable by exploiting both value and momentum; in his context, value means using fundamental analysis to assess the true worth of a security and momentum means betting that it will continue to go up or down as it has in the recent past. Neither idea was original with Asness but he was credited with being the first to compile enough empirical evidence across a wide variety of markets to bring the ideas into the academic financial mainstream. However, the strategy for accumulation is subject to the same constraints as any other and systemic effects in markets can invalidate it: AQR and other similar ventures lost massive amounts of wealth in the Financial crisis of 2007-2010 with assets declining from $39 billion in 2007 to $17 billion by the end of 2008.

2008

In 2008, he complained about short-selling restrictions in The New York Times. In a 2010 Wall Street Journal op-ed (written with Aaron Brown) he claimed the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill would lead to regulatory capture, crony capitalism and a massive "financial-regulatory complex." In Bloomberg columns, he discussed taxation of investment managers and Health care reform. He posts commentary on financial issues, generally from a libertarian and efficient markets viewpoint.

2012

In 2012, he was included in the 50 Most Influential list of Bloomberg Markets Magazine.

2013

In 2013, Asness was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case.

2019

Asness’s younger brother, Bradley David Asness, is Chief Operating Officer at AQR.

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