Antti Ilmanen

Antti Ilmanen is a Principal at AQR Capital Management and the author of "Expected Returns" (Wiley, 2011) as well as its monograph, "Expected Returns on Major Asset Classes." Antti’s second book "Investing Amid Low Expected Returns" will be available in Spring 2022. A renowned expert on financial investments, Antti has three decades of experience in the investment industry, where he has skillfully served as a bridge between practitioners and financial academic research. At AQR, Antti co-heads the Portfolio Solutions Group, the team responsible for advising institutional investors and developing the firm's broad investment ideas. Prior to joining AQR in 2011, Antti spent seven years as a senior portfolio manager at Brevan Howard and a decade in a variety of roles at Salomon Brothers/Citigroup. He began his career as a central bank portfolio manager in Finland. Over the years, he has advised many institutional investors, including Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global and the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation. Antti has published extensively in finance and investment journals and has received a Graham and Dodd award, the Harry M. Markowitz special distinction award, and multiple Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy awards for his articles. He also received the CFA Institute's 2017 Leadership in Global Investment Award. Antti earned M.Sc. degrees in economics and law from the University of Helsinki and a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Chicago.