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Clifford Asness
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Money management
- Industry
- Finance & Investments
- Residence
- Greenwich, Connecticut
- Organization
- AQR Capital Management
- Education
- University of Chicago (Doctorate)University of Chicago (Master of Business Administration)University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School (Bachelor of Arts/Science)
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 4
Biography
Cliff Asness is the cofounder of AQR Capital Management, a money management firm that held $187 billion of assets under management as of March 2026.
AQR stands for Applied Quantitative Research. It focuses on factor-based investing, offering products ranging from hedge funds to mutual funds.
A finance Ph.D, Asness is an active researcher and worked in quantitative research for Goldman Sachs before starting AQR in 1998.
About
Asness backed lawmakers who supported New York's marriage equality initiative and is a board member of the International Rescue Committee.
Asness was a teaching assistant at the University of Chicago for Nobel laureate Eugene Fama, whose efficient market hypothesis popularized passive investing.