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Working Paper
Liquidity without Liquidation
August 28, 2026
This paper shows that investors may be able to access meaningful liquidity from tax-aware strategies while preserving the remaining portfolio’s tracking error, leverage, and pre-tax return potential. An adaptive withdrawal process may also better manage capital-gain realization than a fixed withdrawal schedule.
White Paper
Academic Alpha
August 19, 2026
This paper reintroduces style premia investing—or “academic alpha”—and explains how well-researched, skillfully implemented strategies can provide liquid, transparent, and cost-effective sources of uncorrelated returns. It highlights how continued innovation in signal design, portfolio construction, and multi-asset implementation can strengthen their role as long-term portfolio diversifiers.
Data Set
Time Series Momentum: Factors, Monthly
May 29, 2026
We have updated and extended our data set for “Time Series Momentum" (Moskowitz, Ooi and Pedersen, 2012), in which we document an asset-pricing anomaly that is consistent across different asset classes and markets. We update the returns monthly.
Quick Takes
Active Extension
April 27, 2026
This Quick Take explores Active Extension, a long-short equity approach that maintains full market exposure while allowing managers to express investment ideas more clearly. By relaxing the long-only constraint, the framework may improve diversification, enhance return potential, and increase portfolio efficiency.
Perspective
A Positive Stock-Bond Correlation Is a Terrible Reason to Add More Equity Risk to Your Portfolio
April 8, 2026
As the correlation between stocks and bonds has turned positive, many investors have questioned whether bonds still provide meaningful diversification and have looked to alternative "replacements." This perspective argues that most popular substitutes add more equity risk, not less, and shows that true diversification still requires strategies with genuinely low or negative equity beta—not simply abandoning bonds.
Journal Article
An Interview with Cliff Asness: The Illusion of Safety in Private Assets
March 31, 2026
In an interview with the editor of The Journal of Private Markets Investing, Cliff Asness reiterates his views on the numerous flaws embedded in private assets, and what investors should keep in mind when assessing the role of privates in their own portfolios.
Perspective
I Did Not Predict What Is Going on in Privates
March 25, 2026
I push back on claims that I predicted recent turmoil in private markets, clarifying that my prior work focused on long‑term issues like volatility mismeasurement, illiquidity, and expected returns—not short‑term market calls. While privates play a real economic role, I argue investors shouldn’t confuse smoothed valuations and perceived stability with lower risk or superior long‑run performance.
Journal Article
An Interview with Jordan Brooks: Multi-Asset Strategies and Asset Allocation
February 28, 2026
In a comprehensive interview, AQR Principal Jordan Brooks outlines his thoughts on building multi-asset portfolios – including investing across a range of assets, incorporating low-correlation strategies, designing portfolios to be resilient, and more.
Alternative Thinking
2026 Capital Market Assumptions for Major Asset Classes
January 14, 2026
We update our estimates of medium-term (5- to 10-year) expected returns for major asset classes. We also include a discussion on currency risk and currency hedging, with particular considerations for U.S. and European investors.
Alternative Thinking
Hold the Dip
December 1, 2025
We examine the popular “Buy the Dip” strategy and find it consistently underperforms a simple buy-and-hold approach. Our research shows that investors seeking to time markets may find greater success following trends rather than fighting them.