Just Something To File Away: Cliff Asness, Ken Griffin, Et Al Took Time Out...
In an event brought to you by the Koch brothers. The participants in Aspen dined under the stars at the top of the gondola run on Aspen Mountain, and listened to Glenn Beck of Fox News in a session...
View ArticleCliff Asness Loved The Atlas Shrugged Movie And Knows You Will Too
…unless you are “a leftist who hates liberty, or a snob who enjoys destroying civilization with your superior-sounding mendacity.” But if you’re neither of those things, “you will love this movie.” Do...
View ArticleCliff Asness Has A Suggestion For President Obama
Date: May 20, 2011 8:58 AM Subject: A Modest Proposal Back at President Obama A Modest Proposal Back at President Obama: In the spirit of inherently “reasonable” historical precedent, and given the...
View ArticleCliff Asness Will Tell You Something
I will tell you the stimulus was wasteful and politicized, and the American people, not being idiots, know they will have to pay for it eventually…I will also tell you Dodd-Frank, with its enshrining...
View ArticlePlease, Ladies, Don’t Bother Cliff Asness When He’s Getting His Drink On
So you’re Cliff Asness, and you’re in Washington for dinner with a couple of buddies, one of whom happens to be Republican congressman Paul Ryan. Just you, some bros, a nice meal, a little chat about...
View ArticleCliff Asness Would Be Cheap At Twice The Price
Real superheroes deliver real alpha. And real alpha doesn’t come cheap: One of the panels today at the “Delivering Alpha” conference is tackling just that question: whether hedge funds can justify the...
View ArticleCliff Asness Could Use Some New Investment Ideas
He’s got 100-large for whoever delivers AQR the right stuff. AQR Capital Management LLC established a $100,000 annual prize competition for academic papers in finance that “have the most significant...
View ArticleYou Too Can Invest Like A Kindly Grandfather And/Or Comic-Book Quant Superhero
There are those who think that Warren Buffett’s days of being an awesome value investor are behind him. Those people are crowing a little today after his recent darling Bank of America crossed $5 in...
View ArticleCliff Asness Will Consider Transcendental Meditation When It Involves Prizes...
Robert C. Jones is also a devoted practitioner of transcendental meditation. Now that he has his own firm, System Two Advisors L.P, he’ll promote “TM” among his employees, and fellow quants. “‘This...
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Chuck Schumer’s Gonna Have To Do A Lot Better Than Dinner If He Wants A Piece...
Earlier today, Politico ran a story titled “Can Chuck Schumer win back Wall St. for Democrats?” Apparently the New York Senator recently “embarked on a fence-mending campaign with senior Wall Street...
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Cliff Asness Wants To Be Thanked For Paying Taxes, Is Pissed Cash For...
Something you may or may not know about Cliff Asness is that by day, he is a hedge fund manager but by night he is the second coming of his hero, Captain America. Like the Captain, the AQR founder...
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Greenwich, Connecticut Nobody Threatening To Dethrone Area Hedge Fund Manager...
Exhibit A: Friday morning at AQR, August 10. Cliff Asness glanced pensively at a candy-colored array of Marvel superhero figurines lined up along his east-facing window. Spiderman. Captain America. The...
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Cliff Asness’s Staff Built Him A Robot Warren Buffett
Do you want to invest like Warren Buffett? Sure you do. You know who will tell you how? Strangely, some guys at AQR:* [W]e create a portfolio that tracks Buffett’s market exposure and active...
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Area Billionaire Threatens “Legal And Illegal Tax Avoidance” To Protect Comic...
“The only way to finance a big European-style state is to have it paid for by massive taxation of everyone, mostly the middle class. Right now, we are avoiding honest debate on this fact…The first...
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Ringleader Of Insider-Trading “Fight Club” Didn’t Want Any Sarcastic Comments...
I suppose in like 1985 there were people who worked on Wall Street and un-self-consciously ate cheeseburgers for breakfast, got shoeshines at their desks, went to strip clubs every night, and slammed...
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Cliff Asness Has A Lot Of Problems With You People
The AQR chief has made clear that there are many things he doesn’t like: Democrats. The real Warren Buffet when a robotic alternative is available. College professors talking to him when he’s enjoying...
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Ray Dalio, Cliff Asness Did Okay For Themselves Last Month
Surprise, surprise: Low-key investment funds that diversify their portfolios across asset classes to protect them for the long term are again proving their value. So-called “risk parity” funds—run by...
View ArticleLocal Superhero Ready To Fix Europe
Europe’s leaders, adopting a money begets money approach, are looking to conjure a few billion dollars to juice up the continent’s economy. Perhaps they should give Cliff Asness a call. He’s always...
View ArticleGet Cliff Asness A Job On Madison Avenue
The AQR chief sure knows how to sell his industry, and is now continuing his somewhat less-than-full-throated “Hedge Funds: They’re Alright, I Guess” campaign on his own website. To sum up his...
View Article“Cliff Asness Or Teenage Twitter Rant?”
If you’re killing time at the office, working on Turkey Day, or are looking for a fun interactive game for the family to play Thursday night after dinner, test your knowledge of Asnessisms with this...
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