An interview and Q&A with billionaire quantitative investor and co-founder of AQR Capital Management, Cliff Asness. In this interview Cliff discusses what a Quant investor is and how he approaches investing. Cliff also talks about the history of Quant investing and research AQR has conducted. ? Books by Cliff Asness and books on him are located at the bottom of the description? L
Video Segments: 0:00 Introduction 6:51 What is a Quant? 12:39 ‘The Quants’ book story 16:11 Quantitative investing has failed 18:37 What is Quant to us? 22:45 Risk managed 26:10 Different types of Quants? 29:35 Progression of Qaunt equity research 36:20 Using new strategies versus old 45:38 Beyond Quant equity value/momentum 54:33 Alternative Betas: Through Time 59:38 Start of Q&A 1:00:13 Have you changed your models in the last couple of years? 1:03:37 Do you think there negative consequences because of high frequency trading? Cliff Asness Books ??? (affiliate link) Short Selling http://bit.ly/ShortSellingCA The Quants:http://bit.ly/TheQuants Interview Date: 25th October, 2013 Event: Trulaske College of Business Original Image Source:http://bit.ly/CAsnessPic
ValueWalk's Raul Panganiban interviews Kirk Du Plessis, Founder and CEO of Option Alpha, and discuss Option Alpha and his general approach to investing. Q1 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more The following is a computer generated transcript and may contain some errors. Interview with Option Alpha's Kirk Du Plessis