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Cliff Asness is the co-founder of AQR Capital Management, a quantitative hedge fund firm. Cliff completed his PhD in finance at the University of Chicago in 1994. Asness was the Teaching Assistant for his dissertation adviser, Nobel laureate Eugene Fama and the economist, Kenneth French. Asness' doctoral dissertation was on "the performance of momentum trading, buying stocks with rising prices". Wikipedia credits Cliff with being the first to compile enough empirical evidence across a wide variety of markets to bring the ideas into the academic financial mainstream.  

Cliff's firm: https://www.aqr.com/ 

Cliff's blog: https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Perspectives 

Cliff's Twitter: https://twitter.com/CliffordAsness   

Is (Systematic) Value Investing Dead? May 8, 2020 https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Perspectives/Is-Systematic-Value-Investing-Dead  

The Valuesburg Address February 27, 2020 https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Perspectives/The-Valuesburg-Address  

Never Has a Venial Sin Been Punished This Quickly and Violently! February 19, 2020 https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Perspectives/Never-Has-a-Venial-Sin-Been-Punished-This-Quickly-and-Violently  

It’s Time for a Venial Value-Timing Sin November 7, 2019 https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Perspectives/Its-Time-for-a-Venial-Value-Timing-Sin

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