Clifford Asness

Co-founder, AQR Capital.  Was Managing Director and Director of Quantitative Research for the Asset Management Division at Goldman Sachs.  Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Chicago. Eugene Fama’s student and teaching assistant.

Applied Quantitative Research

Bio (AQR Capital)

Research (SSRN)

Presentation to the International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE)

Peter Bernstein

Although technically an investment practitioner, Bernstein's significant contribution to the field of investing takes the form of his two chonicles of modern finance: Capital Ideas and the recently released Capital Ideas Evolving.  In these books, he accomplishes the previously unthinkable: 500+ pages of financeial history and theory with zero pages of mathematical formulas.

Peter L Bernstein Inc. (publisher of Economics & Portfolio Strategy)

PBS Interview

MarketWatch Interview re: Capital Ideas Evolving

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Angelo Calvello

Executive VP, Noth America, Man Investments.  Six years with State Street Global Advisors where he helped build the firm’s portable alpha and hedge fund businesses.

Bio (de Paul University Alumni Association)

Man Investments USA

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Jack Coates

Head of Portable Alpha, Managing Director, Portable Alpha Team, Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners.  Former head of pension plan for Weyerhaeuser.

Morgan Stanley AIP Portable Alpha

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Alexander Ineichen

Managing Director and Senior Investment Officer at UBS Alternative Investment Solutions. Author of Absolute Returns & Asymmetric Returns.  Board of Directors of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIAA).

Bio (CAIA)

UBS Alternative & Quantitative Investments

Asymmetric Returns (2006)

Absolute Returns (2002)

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Lars Jaeger

Partner and Head of the alternative beta strategies, Partners Groupm Switzerland.  Author of several leading hedge funds publications.

Bio (Partners Group)

Research (SSRN)

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Tris Lett

Managing Director, Integra Alpha/Beta Strategies, Canada.  Member of the Advisory Board, Canadian Investment Review.   Vice Chairman, AIMA Canada.  Member of the board of directors, The Fields Institute.

Integra Alpha/Beta Strategies

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Eric Sorensen

President and Chief Executive Officer of PanAgora, and a member of the firm’s Investment and Management Committees.  Prior to joining PanAgora, was the Chief Investment Officer of Structured Equity, and Director of Quantitative Research at Putnam Investments.

Bio (PanAgora)

PanAgora

Interview (Pensions & Investments)

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Barton Waring

Managing director and head of the Client Advisory Group at Barclays Global Investors.  Previously, head of Ibbotson Associates.

Bio (Yale Alumni Association)

Research (SSRN)

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