Cliff's Perspective: AQR's Clifford Asness on fundamental analysis and systematic value with Tobias Carlisle on The Acquirers Podcast

Cliff Asness is the co-founder of AQR Capital Management, a quantitative hedge fund firm. Cliff completed his PhD in finance at the University of Chicago in 1994. Asness was the Teaching Assistant for his dissertation adviser, Nobel laureate Eugene Fama and the economist, Kenneth French. Asness' doctoral dissertation was on "the performance of momentum trading, buying stocks with rising prices". Wikipedia credits Cliff with being the first to compile enough empirical evidence across a wide variety of markets to bring the ideas into the academic financial mainstream.   Cliff's firm: https://www.aqr.com/  Cliff's blog: https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Perspectives  Cliff's Twitter: https://twitter.com/CliffordAsness    Is (Systematic) Value Investing Dead? May 8, 2020 https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Perspectives/Is-Systematic-Value-Investing-Dead   The Valuesburg Address February 27, 2020 https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Perspectives/The-Valuesburg-Address   Never Has a Venial Sin Been Punished This Quickly and Violently! February 19, 2020 https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Perspectives/Never-Has-a-Venial-Sin-Been-Punished-This-Quickly-and-Violently   It’s Time for a Venial Value-Timing Sin November 7, 2019 https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Perspectives/Its-Time-for-a-Venial-Value-Timing-Sin ABOUT THE PODCAST Hi, I'm Tobias Carlisle. I've launched a new podcast called The Acquirers Podcast. The podcast is about finding undervalued stocks, deep value investing, hedge funds, activism, buyouts, and special situations. We uncover the tactics and strategies for finding good investments, managing risk, dealing with bad luck, and maximizing success. SEE LATEST EPISODES https://acquirersmultiple.com/podcast/ SEE OUR FREE DEEP VALUE STOCK SCREENER https://acquirersmultiple.com/screener/ FOLLOW TOBIAS Firm: https://acquirersfunds.com/ Website: https://acquirersmultiple.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Greenbackd LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobycarlisle Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tobiascarlisle Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tobias_carlisle ABOUT TOBIAS CARLISLE Tobias Carlisle is the founder of The Acquirer’s Multiple®, and Acquirers Funds®. He is best known as the author of the #1 new release in Amazon’s Business and Finance The Acquirer’s Multiple: How the Billionaire Contrarians of Deep Value Beat the Market, the Amazon best-sellers Deep Value: Why Activists Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations (2014) (https://amzn.to/2VwvAGF), Quantitative Value: A Practitioner’s Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors (2012) (https://amzn.to/2SDDxrN), and Concentrated Investing: Strategies of the World’s Greatest Concentrated Value Investors (2016) (https://amzn.to/2SEEjVn). He has extensive experience in investment management, business valuation, public comp