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Hi, and welcome to the Longview. I'm Jeff Battak, Chief Ratings Officer for Morningstar Research Services.

And I'm Christine Ben's, Director of Personal Finance and Retirement Planning for Morningstar.

Our guest this week is Cliff Asness.

Cliff is a founder, managing principal, and chief investment officer at AQR Capital Management.

Cliff writes often about investing in financial matters on AQR's website

and has been a prolific researcher throughout his career, with his contributions appearing in

many of the leading scholarly journals, including the Journal of Portfolio Management,

Financial Analyst Journal, the Journal of Finance, and the Journal of Financial Economics.

This work has earned him accolades,

including the James R. Verton Award, which the CFA Institute bestows on those who produced a

body of research notable for its relevance, an enduring value to investment professionals.

Before co-founding AQR, Cliff is a managing director and director of quantitative research for the

asset management division of Goldman Sachs. Here in dual bachelor's degrees, one in economics from

the Wharton School, and another in engineering from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering

at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as an MBA and PhD in finance from the University of Chicago.

We recorded this episode live and in-person at the annual Morning Star Investment Conference,

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