General Investing >> Money Manager Interviews >> June 16, 2003
ROBERT D. ARNOTT serves as Chairman of First Quadrant, LP, and as
Chairman of Research Affiliates, LLC. He also serves as Editor
of the Financial Analysts Journal. He has authored over 60
articles for journals such as the Financial Analysts Journal, the
Journal of Portfolio Management and the Harvard Business Review.
He has received four Graham and Dodd Scrolls, awarded annually by
AIMR, and two Bernstein-Fabozzi/Jacobs-Levy awards, awarded by
the Journal of Portfolio Management and Institutional Investor,
for the best articles of the year. In 2002, he established
Research Affiliates in order to offer products and services which
were not consonant with the mission of First Quadrant, including
subadvisory services, software and asset management models. He
has joined forces with PIMCO, serving as a subadvisor, to offer
the first global asset allocation product to make active use of
alternative markets, beyond conventional stocks, bonds and cash.
He also serves as a Visiting Professor of Finance at UCLA. He
serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Portfolio
Management and two other journals, and on the Product Advisory
Board of the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Profile
TWST: Can you start with a brief overview of First Quadrant anddescribe your responsibilities there?
Mr. Arnott: I am Chairman of First Quadrant, LP, and of Research
Affiliates, LLC. First