NBER profile: Andrew Ang.

• Position: National Bureau of Economic Research - Brief article

Andrew Ang is a Research Associate in the NBERs Program on Asset Pricing and the Ann R Kaplan Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. He has been on the faculty at Columbia University since 1999, when he received his Ph.D. from Stanford Business School. Andrew grew up in Australia, and graduated with an actuarial studies degree from Macquarie University in 1994. He spent just under a year in the real world before starting graduate school, a move which was Pareto-improving for him and industry. He was appointed a Faculty Research Fellow of the NBER in 2001 and a Research Associate in 2006.

Ang's research agenda seeks to characterize the nature of risk and return in asset prices. His work spans bond markets, equities, asset management and portfolio allocation, and alternative investments. He has received a variety of grants from government and...