Andrew Ang

Dr. Andrew Ang is a highly regarded financial economist, author, and academic who serves as the Head of Factor Based Strategies at BlackRock. Prior to his career in asset management, he was the Ann F. Kaplan Professor of Business at Columbia Business School, where he specialized in empirical finance and risk management.

He is the author of the definitive financial text Asset Management: A Systematic Approach to Factor Investing. The book bridges the gap between rigorous academic finance and practical portfolio management, explaining how investors can harvest risk premiums through factor-based strategies rather than traditional asset class allocations.

Ang’s pioneering research has fundamentally changed how institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, and pension plans approach portfolio construction. His insights continue to drive modern quantitative finance and evidence-based investing globally.