There have been recent incidents of individuals and groups falsely claiming to be associated with AQR on social media platforms. These imposters have engaged in a variety of unauthorized conduct, including soliciting customers to carry out trading activities with them, impersonating AQR using the genuine names of AQR senior executives or employees to offer investment opportunities, claiming to offer investment training courses that are supposedly provided by AQR or claiming that AQR is backing certain initial coin offerings or is otherwise engaged in crypto related trading activity. There have also been fake websites and mobile applications that claim to be AQR (or associated with AQR) when in fact they are not. These are scams and not authorized by AQR in any way.

Please be aware that AQR does not engage in any investment activities, provide training or financial services, or conduct other regulated activities through social media platforms or messaging apps. Similarly, AQR, its executives and employees do not contact prospects, clients or members of the public via social media platforms or messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Discord and Telegram to offer investment opportunities. AQR does not offer direct investments in cryptocurrencies or other digital assets, it does not provide a trading platform to members of the public, it does not have a mobile app, and it does not offer investment training courses to the public.

AQR and its partners, employees, directors, officers, advisors, successors, and agents are not responsible for any conduct by unauthorized parties and channels, nor are they responsible for the services or information provided by such unauthorized parties and channels. If you have any questions or wish to ascertain whether you are communicating with an authorized representative of AQR, please contact us at https://www.aqr.com/Contact-Us. If you believe that you or someone you know has been a victim of fraud, please report the matter to your local law enforcement or other relevant authorities. For India residents, you may lodge a report at the national cybercrime reporting portal (https://cybercrime.gov.in).

David Kupersmith

Principal

32 years of experience

9 years at AQR

M.B.A., Columbia University

B.A., Amherst College

David Kupersmith is a Principal and senior member of the Macro Strategies Group at AQR Capital Management, where he focuses on discretionary macro. In his role, he provides economic research into macro themes, market dislocations and structural changes across asset classes and focuses on connecting quantitative data to global macro events and trends. Prior to rejoining AQR, David was a Portfolio Manager at ClearAlpha Technologies and a Strategist at Jane Street. Earlier in his career, David was a partner and the head of discretionary macro trading at Third Wave Global Investors. Before that he was a director at Citigroup and a principal and head trader at Harbor Street Capital Management. David earned a B.A. in history from Amherst College and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.

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