Clifford Asness

Words to live by.

Referring to the section on “alpha capture” by ⁦@matt_levine⁩ It’s new name: #informationlaundering bloomberg.com/opinion/newsle…

Thanks! (Though I have co-authors who do most of the actual work :))

Lack of sources doesn’t make the info from known liars, whose entire plan is to commit the worst acts of terror and then hide behind their own people hoping that their people are hurt by the righteous effort to get the rapist/killers hiding behind them, and then (sadly…

Well argued and quite clearly correct. I’m sure this will stop the legion of liars and fools from repeating this false charge over and over trying to pollute that word for their own purposes (which, in some cases, ironically involve actual genocide).

I read all 16,100 of Zohran Mamdani’s tweets. First takeaway: yeah, he’s actually a socialist.

Actual Marxist academic article, the gist of which is that capitalism is to blame for the fact that Marxists smell bad.

Outrageously, the Stanford Graduate Worker Union is attempting to FIRE all graduate students from @Stanford who refuse to join the union or pay union dues/fees. @Stanford has so far equivocated on the demands. My latest at @StanfordReview w Dylan Rem🧵 stanfordreview.org/stanford-gradu…

A) No you shouldn’t unless you want expensive equity with the comfort of volatility laundering. B) “According to partners group.” Ah. Also, quant has returned a bajillion percent according to some quant firm. These #s are highly disputed (institutionalinvestor.com/article/2cr4z1…). Way to cite…

History as rewritten by two propaganda organizations, one in Russia and another one in the US:

There is a term for this right??? ⁦@CliffordAsness⁩

So nice thank you!

I second this. Really interesting episode with @CliffordAsness weaving personal Chicago anecdotes (which I always love) with the development of the field

Quantum BioPharma Makes Strategic Investment in GameStop Corp (We have reached the Treasury Company Singularity) $GME finance.yahoo.com/news/quantum-b…

Perfectly put @CliffordAsness.👇

“Gaza officials said.”

With continuously compounded returns a 1000% reduction leaves a very small positive number left, not the massive negatives the hysteric haters commenting on this say. I’m sure that’s what he meant. He is known for preferring continuous compounding.