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Cliff Asness on AQR's Success, Market Neutral Strategies, and Private Investments

Bloomberg PodcastsJune 3, 202517 min799 views
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AQR's Quantitative Approach to Market Navigation

  • 💡 AQR Capital Management has achieved double-digit percentage returns this year by employing a quantitative investing approach, spreading bets widely across categories.
  • 🎯 A significant contributor to their success has been individual stock picking, involving approximately 2,000 long and 2,000 short positions, balanced by country and industry.
  • 🚀 Trend following has also been a strong performer, diversified across many more markets and incorporating fundamental and economic trends alongside price trends.
  • ⚠️ The exception to their success has been value investing, which Asness notes is his
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