There have been recent incidents of individuals and groups falsely claiming to be associated with AQR on social media platforms. These imposters have engaged in a variety of unauthorized conduct, including soliciting customers to carry out trading activities with them, impersonating AQR using the genuine names of AQR senior executives or employees to offer investment opportunities, claiming to offer investment training courses that are supposedly provided by AQR or claiming that AQR is backing certain initial coin offerings or is otherwise engaged in crypto related trading activity. There have also been fake websites and mobile applications that claim to be AQR (or associated with AQR) when in fact they are not. These are scams and not authorized by AQR in any way.

Please be aware that AQR does not engage in any investment activities, provide training or financial services, or conduct other regulated activities through social media platforms or messaging apps. Similarly, AQR, its executives and employees do not contact prospects, clients or members of the public via social media platforms or messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Discord and Telegram to offer investment opportunities. AQR does not offer direct investments in cryptocurrencies or other digital assets, it does not provide a trading platform to members of the public, it does not have a mobile app, and it does not offer investment training courses to the public.

AQR and its partners, employees, directors, officers, advisors, successors, and agents are not responsible for any conduct by unauthorized parties and channels, nor are they responsible for the services or information provided by such unauthorized parties and channels. If you have any questions or wish to ascertain whether you are communicating with an authorized representative of AQR, please contact us at https://www.aqr.com/Contact-Us. If you believe that you or someone you know has been a victim of fraud, please report the matter to your local law enforcement or other relevant authorities. For India residents, you may lodge a report at the national cybercrime reporting portal (https://cybercrime.gov.in).

Laura Serban

Principal

15 years of experience

14 years at AQR

A.B., M.S., Ph.D., Harvard University

Laura Serban is a Principal and portfolio manager at AQR Capital Management, where she is the Co-Head of Global Stock Selection. In this role, Laura leads alpha research, portfolio implementation research as well as portfolio management across all of AQR’s equity strategies. Her research on quantitative long-only portfolio construction and supply chain climate exposure measurement have been published in the Journal of Investing and Financial Analysts Journal. Prior to joining AQR, she was a financial economist at the SEC, a researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research and held multiple teaching fellow positions in the finance and computer science departments at Harvard University. Laura earned a B.A. in applied mathematics and economics, an S.M. in computer science and a Ph.D. in business economics and finance, all from Harvard University.

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