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Clifford AsnessCo-founder, AQR Capital. Was Managing Director and Director of Quantitative Research for the Asset Management Division at Goldman Sachs. Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Chicago. Eugene Fama’s student and teaching assistant.
Applied Quantitative Research
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Peter BernsteinAlthough technically an investment practitioner, Bernstein’s significant contribution to the field of investing takes the form of his two chronicles of modern finance: Capital Ideas and the recently released Capital Ideas Evolving. In these books, he accomplishes the previously unthinkable: 500+ pages of financial history and theory with zero pages of mathematical formulas.
Peter L Bernstein Inc. (publisher of Economics & Portfolio Strategy)
PBS Interview
MarketWatch Interview re: Capital Ideas Evolving
(VIDEO) Interview re: Capital Ideas Evolving
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Angelo CalvelloFormer Executive VP, North America, Man Investments. Six years with State Street Global Advisors where he helped build the firm’s portable alpha and hedge fund businesses.
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Jack CoatesHead of Portable Alpha, Managing Director, Portable Alpha Team, Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners. Former head of pension plan for Weyerhaeuser.
Morgan Stanley AIP Portable Alpha
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Alexander IneichenManaging Director and Senior Investment Officer at UBS Alternative Investment Solutions. Author of Absolute Returns & Asymmetric Returns. Board of Directors of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIAA).
Bio (CAIA)
UBS Alternative & Quantitative Investments
Asymmetric Returns (2006)
Absolute Returns (2002)
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Lars JaegerPartner and Head of the alternative beta strategies, Partners Group, Switzerland. Author of several leading hedge funds publications.
Bio (Partners Group)
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Eric SorensenPresident and Chief Executive Officer of PanAgora, and a member of the firm’s Investment and Management Committees. Prior to joining PanAgora, was the Chief Investment Officer of Structured Equity, and Director of Quantitative Research at Putnam Investments.
Bio (PanAgora)
PanAgora
Interview (Pensions & Investments)
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Barton WaringManaging director and head of the Client Advisory Group at Barclays Global Investors. Previously, head of Ibbotson Associates.
Bio (Yale Alumni Association)
Research (SSRN)
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Bill FungVisiting Research Professor at the Centre for Hedge Fund Research and Education, London Business School. Serves on the board of financial services companies in Europe and North America and is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Maple Financial Group, Canada.
Homepage/Contact Information (LBS)
Research (SSRN)
BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre
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David HsiehBank of America Professor of Finance, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.
Homepage (Duke)
Research (SSRN), Research (Duke)
Recent Course Syllabus (Duke)
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Harry KatProfessor of Risk Management at the Cass Business School at City University, London. Before returning to academia, he was Head of Equity Derivatives Europe at Bank of America in London, Head of Derivatives Structuring and Marketing at First Chicago in Tokyo and Head of Derivatives Research at MeesPierson in Amsterdam.
The Alternative Investment Research Centre (Cass School)
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Francois-Serge LhabitantAssociate Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School, Professor of Finance at the University of Lausanne, and a senior advisor to Kedge Capital Partners
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Interview (Edhec)
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Lionel MartelliniProfessor of Finance at EDHEC Graduate School of Business (since 2003) and the Scientific Director of Edhec Risk and Asset Management Research Centre. Former member of the faculty at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California.
Bio/Contact Information (Edhec)
Research (SSRN)
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Andrew LoHarris & Harris Group Professor and director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Sloan School of Business, MIT
Laboratory for Financial Engineering (MIT)
Research (SSRN)
Course Outlines (MIT)
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Rob ArnottChairman, Research Affiliates. Outspoken advocate of Fundamental Indexation.
Research Affiliates
Bio (Research Affiliates)
Fundamental Indexation
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Thomas SchneeweisMichael and Cheryl Philipp Professor of Finance, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts (Amherst).
Homepage (UMass)
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Center for International Securities & Derivatives Markets
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Narayan NaikDirector of BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre, London Business School
Faculty Profile (LBS)
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Chairman, Analytic Investors. Served as a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Portfolio Management and the Financial Analysts Journal. He also served on the faculty of Brigham Young University for eight years.
Analytic Investors
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Harindra de SilvaPresident, Analytic Investors. Author of several articles and studies on finance-related topics including stock market anomalies, market volatility and asset valuation.
Interview (Pensions & Investments)
Analytic Investors
Research (SSRN)
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Ray DalioPresident and Chief Investment Officer of Bridgewater Associates (manages $170 billion, $30 billion+ in its “Pure Alpha” hedge fund strategy).
Bridgewater Associates
Interview (Derivatives Strategy)
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Roger IbbotsonProfessor in the Practice of Finance, Yale School of Management. Chairman and CIO of Zebra Capital Management, LLC. Founder, Advisor and former Chairman of Ibbotson Associates, now a Morningstar Company. Has written numerous books and articles including Stocks Bonds Bills and Inflation.
Homepage (Yale)
Ibbotson Associates (now Morningstar)
Research (SSRN)
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Bruce I. JacobsPrincipal, Jacobs Levy Equity Management. Received the Graham and Dodd Award from the Financial Analysts Journal and outstanding article awards from The Journal of Portfolio Management and The Journal of Investing.
Jacobs Levy Equity Management
Bio (Jacobs Levy Equity Management)
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Kenneth N. LevyPrincipal, Jacobs Levy Equity Management. Recipient of the Graham and Dodd Award and The Journal of Portfolio Management’s outstanding article award.
Jacobs Levy Equity Management
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Barr RosenbergFounder, BARRA. Chairman, AXA Rosenberg Group
Bio (Pensions & Investments)
AXA Rosenberg Group
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Dennis TitoFounder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Wilshire Associates.
Wilshire Associates
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William SharpeSTANCO 25 Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. One of the originators of the Capital Asset Pricing Model. Developed the Sharpe Ratio for investment performance analysis.
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Harry MarkowitzFormerly at the RAND Corporation, Markowitz won the Nobel Prize in 1990 while a professor of finance at Baruch College of the City University of New York. Best known for his pioneering work in modern portfolio theory, studying the effects of asset risk, correlation and diversification on expected investment portfolio returns.
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Nobel Citation (Nobel Foundation)
Michael JensenJesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Harvard Business School. Founded the Journal of Financial Economics. Past President of the American Finance Association.
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Managing Director, Advanced Strategies and Research at Barclays Global Investors. 14 years at BARRA as Director of Research, Executive Vice President, and President; and 20 years on the faculty at the School of Business Administration at the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as the chairman of the finance faculty, chairman of the management science faculty, and director of the Berkeley Program in Finance.
Research (SSRN)
Some guy’s study notes on Grinold’s book, Active Portfolio Management
Kenneth FrenchCarl E. and Catherine M. Heidt Professor of Finance at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. President Elect of the American Finance Association, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an Advisory Editor of the Journal of Financial Economics.
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Eugene FamaRobert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago.
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