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Quote by Cliff Asness

“Market-cap based indexing will never be driven from its deserved perch as core and deserved king of the investment world. It is what we should all own in theory and it has delivered low-cost equity returns to a great mass of investors... the now and forever king-of-the-hill.”

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Cliff Asness

Limited information is available about Cliff Asness, a prominent figure in the financial industry, born on October 17, 1966. His specific profession and life experiences require further verification. more

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“When you've cooked the marrow of the sun and moon, The pearl is so bright you don't worry about poverty.”

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“My heart went out, seeking the God of my people. In thousands of homes those white candles burned tonight. I joined an invisible congregation.”

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“[Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her freedom and dignity. Every law whose yoke she accepted willingly seemed to add to her freedom: she herself had chosen . . . To enter that brotherhood. Her Judaism was no longer a stigma, a meaningless accident of birth from which she could escape . . . It had become a distinction, the essence of her self-hood, what she was, what she wanted to be, not merely what she happened to be.”