Rank #1965
John Liew
Net worth $2.1B
investment management · United States
- Born
- Aug 20, 1967
- Age
- 58
- Source
- investment management
- Residence
- Greenwich, Connecticut
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Chicago; Master of Business Administration, University of Chicago; Ph.D, University of Chicago
Net worth over time
Biography
- John Liew is co-founder of AQR, a money management firm that trades through a systematic, data-driven approach.
- The firm focuses on factor-based investing and held $187 billion of assets under management as of March 2026.
- Based in Greenwich, Connecticut, AQR operates globally with offices from London to Sydney and Hong Kong.
- Before cofounding AQR, Liew worked at Goldman Sachs as a portfolio manager, where he developed and managed quantitative trading strategies.
- He created the Liew College Fellows Fund to finance undergraduates who have unpaid research opportunities with the University of Chicago's faculty.