General Investing >> Money Manager Interviews >> June 16, 2003

Robert Arnott – First Quadrant Lp

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 and

describe your responsibilities there?

Mr. Arnott: I am Chairman of First Quadrant, LP, and of Research

Affiliates, LLC. First