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Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show. My guest today is Cliff Asnes.

Cliff is co-founder and managing principal of AQR Capital Management, a 155B quantitative investment manager.

Hi, Cliff, so nice to have you on.

Thank you, Carol. It's nice to be here.

Cliff, those words, I mean, I don't really know what my husband does. So I really don't know. What is a 155B quantitative investment manager?

I think probably me, but someone sent you an abbreviation for a billion dollars.

Okay.

We manage about $150 billion for clients.

I see.

And did you always want to be a quantitative investment manager?

I don't think anyone, you know, at the age of seven, playing little league, says, you know,

what I want to do is grow up to be a quantitative investment manager.

So what did you want to be?

I was always kind of a mathy kid.

Mm-hmm.

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