Andrew Ang, PhD, is a well-known financial economist specializing in quantitative investing. Author of over 100 publications, Dr. Ang ’s research includes security selection strategies in equities and fixed income, tactical and strategic asset allocation, and private markets. His research helped start the “low risk anomaly” literature which led to minimum volatility ETF strategies. His book, Asset Management: A Systematic Approach to Factor Investing, has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.

Dr Ang was previously Managing Director and Head of Factors, Sustainable and Solutions at BlackRock . He was responsible for BlackRock’s factor investing strategies, which included passive and active factor ETFs and proprietary long-only and multi-asset, long-short solutions. His research on factor timing was incorporated in BlackRock’s first active ETF. Dr. Ang also served as Senior Adviser to BlackRock Retirement Solutions and was the co-founder of BlackRock Tax Managed Equity strategies.

Before BlackRock, Dr. Ang was the Ann F. Kaplan Professor of Business at Columbia Business School and Chair of the Finance and Economics Division . As a professor, his work with industry was recognized by aiCIO naming him one of the top 10 most influential academics in the institutional investing world.