Rank #659
Clifford Asness
Net worth $6.3B
Money management · United States
- Born
- Oct 17, 1966
- Age
- 59
- Source
- Money management
- Residence
- Greenwich, Connecticut
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 4
- Education
- Doctorate, University of Chicago; Master of Business Administration, University of Chicago; Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Pennsylvania; Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
Net worth over time
Biography
- Cliff Asness is the cofounder of AQR Capital Management, a money management firm that held $187 billion of assets under management as of March 2026.
- AQR stands for Applied Quantitative Research. It focuses on factor-based investing, offering products ranging from hedge funds to mutual funds.
- A finance Ph.D, Asness is an active researcher and worked in quantitative research for Goldman Sachs before starting AQR in 1998.
- Asness backed lawmakers who supported New York's marriage equality initiative and is a board member of the International Rescue Committee.
- Asness was a teaching assistant at the University of Chicago for Nobel laureate Eugene Fama, whose efficient market hypothesis popularized passive investing.