Antti Ilmanen
Investment expert and author
Antti Ilmanen works at AQR Capital Management as a principal and wrote Expected Returns. He has about thirty years in the investment industry.
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About Antti Ilmanen
Ilmanen co-leads the Portfolio Solutions Group at AQR Capital Management, where he is a principal. The group advises institutional investors and helps shape the firm's wider investment ideas. He came to AQR in 2011. Before that, he managed portfolios at Brevan Howard for seven years in a senior role, and he spent ten years in several roles at Salomon Brothers/Citigroup. He started out managing portfolios at a central bank in Finland. He wrote Expected Returns and its monograph, Expected Returns on Major Asset Classes. Investing Amid Low Expected Returns is his second book. His advisory work has included institutional investors: Norway's Government Pension Fund Global is one, as is the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation. His articles have appeared in many finance and investment journals and earned him a Graham and Dodd award, the Harry M. Markowitz special distinction award and several Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy awards. In 2017 the CFA Institute gave him its Leadership in Global Investment Award. Ilmanen studied economics and law at the University of Helsinki, earning master's degrees, and completed a doctorate in finance at the University of Chicago.