ABOUT THE AWARD:

The AQR Insight Award, sponsored by AQR Capital Management, recognizes the unpublished paper that provides the most significant, new practical insights for tax-exempt institutional or taxable investor portfolios. Up to three papers will share a $100,000 prize.

Many academic finance papers are written each year. The AQR Insight Award seeks to acknowledge those that best address the real-world challenges investors face in asset allocation, security selection, portfolio implementation, risk management, and more.

Submissions may address any investment-related topic with clear implications for the practice of investment management. Authors will be asked to submit a brief additional note (no more than 250 words) summarizing the practical implications of their research.

Up to 5 finalists will be invited to present their research to AQR’s investment teams in Greenwich, CT, with all expenses paid.

 

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Deadline for paper submissions was 12 midnight EST on January 15, 2012.

INSIGHT AWARD SELECTION COMMITTEE:
For full biographies of the AQR Insight Award committee, click here

Gregor Andrade, Ph.D. (AQR Principal, former finance professor at Harvard Business School)

 

Cliff Asness, Ph.D. (AQR Founding and Managing Principal)

 

Andrea Frazzini, Ph.D. (AQR Senior Researcher, former finance professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and former NBER Research Associate)

 

Marco Hanig, Ph.D. (President of AQR Funds)

 

Ronen Israel (AQR Principal)

 

David Kabiller, CFA (AQR Founding Principal and Head of Business Development)

 

John Liew, Ph.D. (AQR Founding Principal)

 

Michael Mendelson (AQR Principal)

 

Mark Mitchell, Ph.D. (CNH Partners Founding Principal and former finance professor at Harvard Business School and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

 

Tobias Moskowitz, Ph.D. (Fama Family Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, NBER Research Associate and consultant to AQR)

 

Lasse Pedersen, Ph.D. (AQR Principal, John A. Paulson Professor of Finance and Alternative Investments at the NYU Stern School of Business and Research Associate at CEPR and NBER)

 

Todd Pulvino, Ph.D. (CNH Partners Founding Principal and former member of the finance faculty at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management)

Andrew Sterge, Ph.D. (AQR Vice President)

ABOUT AQR:
The prize is funded by AQR Capital Management, a $40 billion asset management firm based in Greenwich, CT. For more information on AQR, visit www.aqr.com/about.htm

CNH Partners, LLC is an affiliate of AQR.