Andrew Ang

Andrew Ang has been a prolific author for the Research Foundation and for the Financial Analysts Journal and serves on the Journal’s Advisory Council.

Andrew Ang is a well-known financial economist specializing in quantitative investing. Author of over 100 publications in equities and fixed income, optimal asset allocation, macro, sustainable investing, and private markets. His research helped start the “low risk anomaly” literature which led to minimum volatility ETF strategies. Ang was previously a managing director at BlackRock and was the head of systematic factor, sustainable, and investment solutions. He also served as advisor to BlackRock Retirement Solutions and was a founder of BlackRock Tax Managed Equity strategies. Before joining BlackRock, he was the Ann F. Kaplan Professor of Business at Columbia Business School and chair of the Finance and Economics Division. Ang holds several patents and has won prizes including the Harry Markowitz award and the Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy award. His book Asset Management: A Systematic Approach to Factor Investing (Oxford University Press 2014) has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.

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