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Quant Investor Cliff Asness Hasn’t Smashed His Screen This Year Yet

by ry4n413 on 10/4/18, 7:27 PM with 22 comments

  • by weliketocode on 10/4/18, 9:44 PM

    > I’ll still wake up sweating once a year, worrying that we’ve just gotten lucky forever

    You have to appreciate his candor.

  • by mlthoughts2018 on 10/4/18, 11:56 PM

    Cliff Asness is the Jose Mourinho of quant finance: past it, stuck angrily defending one way of looking at things, the fault’s always elsewhere and rooted in people not looking at it in terms of a particular investment methodology he asserts.
  • by blunte on 10/4/18, 11:37 PM

    Not taking anything away from the content, I have such trouble reading light text on dark dark (black in this case) backgrounds! After a few lines, I have light/dark rows burned into my eyes. After a page, I give up.
  • by browsercoin on 10/5/18, 5:06 AM

    history repeats. filled with algorithmic trading systems that never lasts. unless maybe hft and arb and market making.
  • by frgtpsswrdlame on 10/4/18, 8:41 PM

    “I’ll still wake up sweating once a year, worrying that we’ve just gotten lucky forever”

    For good reason. It's amazing the amount of intelligence and effort that gets wasted in finance. (Other fields too of course.)