AQR Capital Management
also referred to as: aqr
10 statements across 5 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Jul 17, 2017 by Adam Blitz · said 51 times in 19 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Ted Seides (19), Kip McDaniel (6), Cliff Asness (5), Patrick O'Shaughnessy (4), Adam Blitz (4), Larry Siegel (2), Jennifer Prosek (2), Gregory Zuckerman (2)
tap a year for its mentions
2024 14 mentions in 2 episodes 7 per episode
2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2020 8 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Laurence Siegel – Current Myths and Long-Term Optimism (Capital Allocators, EP.137)
- Ted Seides – A Rational Reminder (Capital Allocators, EP.121)
- Gregory Zuckerman – Decoding Renaissance Medallion (Capital Allocators, EP.119)
- Carrie Thome – Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained at WARF and beyond (Capital Allocators, EP.160)
- Dan Rasmussen – Private Equity Risk and Public Equity Opportunity at Verdad Advisers (First Meeting, EP.15)
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2019 14 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- Kip McDaniel – How to Get an Allocator's Attention (Capital Allocators, EP.115)
- Jen Prosek – Branding an Asset Management Firm (Capital Allocators, EP.81)
- Patrick O'Shaughnessy – O'Shaughnessy Asset Management (First Meeting, EP.01)
- Drew Dickson – Blending Behavior and Fundamentals at Albert Bridge Capital (First Meeting, EP.13)
- Jon Wertheim – Sports and… (Capital Allocators, EP. 102)
- every mention in 2019, scene by scene →
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 12 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
Everything said about AQR Capital Management, oldest first
Jul 17, 2017 positive
Jan 7, 2019 positive
Prosek: Alternative Asset Managers Only Began Hiring Marketers Around 2015
“If you look at the landscape, AQR being an example, they just made their head of marketing a partner, which shows you how seriously they're taking marketing, right? But these firms have only had marketers the last three or four years, if that. Most of them are…”
Jun 10, 2019 neutral
O'Shaughnessy: OSAM has almost zero portfolio overlap with AQR and LSV
“Our overlaps with other quants are shockingly low. Like we have this little cool program that we can show people this on the fly and they won't believe us. Like they'll ask about AQR and LSV and these other great managers, you know, really, really, really stro…”
Jun 2, 2022 positive
Drogen: Starkiller models its investment approach on AQR and Tiger Global
“We try and pattern ourselves off of some mix of AQR and Tiger Global, and I think he's done it right, and he's taken his lumps along the way sometimes, but Times like this, he gets to come back and say, Hey, look, you know, the process works.”
May 13, 2024 neutral
Asness: AQR shrank by half and restructured into small research teams
“I think, and this was excruciating and had a human cost, but having to shrink by half made us make very hard decisions about being blunt, who are absolute best commando team researchers, men and women who just excel. We started out this way and we're back to t…”
May 13, 2024 neutral
Asness: Personal cynicism delayed AQR's machine learning adoption by years
“I think I probably slowed us down on some of the machine learning stuff by a couple years with a little cynicism along the lines of exactly what you're talking about, that we could turn over more of the decision to the machines.”
May 13, 2024 neutral
Asness: AQR trades crypto exclusively via small trend-following positions
“The most extreme example I'll give you is there's a one place in our entire business. We trade crypto, pure trend following strategies in places that we have a broader model where we're doing macro that is valuation carry doesn't have any of those, or at least…”
May 13, 2024 bearish
May 13, 2024
May 13, 2024
Asness: A prolonged shallow drawdown damages asset managers more than a fast crash
“Duration of pain is as important as intensity of pain to how damaging it is to both your future life expectancy and to your business. A crash that quickly reverses itself. Almost by definition, people are tense. Why'd that crash? You have to talk about it. You…”