Sometimes we just want to make a point, or start a conversation. These timely posts offer opinions about everything from quantitative finance to baseball stats.
December 19, 2019
Conventional wisdom is you get an expected return premium for bearing illiquidity. But what if this is backwards? What if investors will actually pay a higher price and accept a lower expected return for very illiquid assets?
Value
November 7, 2019
Cliff discusses how to measure whether a factor, in this case the value factor, is itself rich or cheap versus history. The answer, regardless of the approach taken in measuring cheapness, is that value is currently quite cheap compared to history.
Fixed Income
August 13, 2019
When something as important as the U.S. bond yield hits historical extremes, it’s worth at least a discussion. Cliff examines the long-term relationships between real bond yields, real T-bill yields, the slope of the yield curve, and economic conditions.
Alternative Investing
July 2, 2019
If all of us, as investors, can persevere, we believe the long-term benefits are great. But even knowing all this in advance doesn’t make it easy. Hopefully, this reminder of what we all knew sixteen long months ago is helpful.
Portfolio Risk and Performance
June 20, 2019
What can you do when you are going through a very tough time? You continue to invest in the business including building the highest quality teams in the industry.
Alternative Investing
May 29, 2019
We have a lot of great topics and special guests coming up on season two of The Curious Investor.
Alternative Investing
February 25, 2019
Cliff offers some insights into the world of smoothed returns with a healthy dose of satire.
Alternative Investing
February 8, 2019
Cliff points out that although the benefits of combining factors into a diversified portfolio are large and well understood, one obstacle for many is gaining intuition about results. He tries to help.
Alternative Investing
December 19, 2018
Cliff discusses why many of the breathless articles and TV headlines we’ve seen lately about the overall U.S. stock market are just not that interesting.
Alternative Investing
December 20, 2018
Cliff introduces AQR’s 20th anniversary anthology, a collection of 20 papers that we’re collectively most proud of and that we think best sum up our work.
Alternative Investing
November 23, 2018
This year of pain in liquid alternatives has continued. Cliff shows the results of an AQR representative liquid alts portfolio and based on an analysis of it, discusses how our investment process and our long-term liquid alts record remains sound, how October was disappointing but not a particularly abnormal outcome, and how our process has been well-behaved over time, particularly compared with the market portfolio.
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