Dan Villalon

Biography:

Dan Villalon serves as principal and co-head of the portfolio solutions group at AQR Capital Management. In this role, he oversees the team responsible for advising clients on portfolio challenges as well as creating investor-oriented thought leadership, such as alternative thinking and other published research. Additionally, he founded, co-wrote and hosted AQR’s podcast, The Curious Investor. Prior to joining AQR, Villalon was a senior business analyst at Mitchell Madison Group and an investment analyst in the private bank at JPMorgan Chase & Co. He earned a B.A. in physics from Pomona College and an MBA with a concentration in analytical finance from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Villalon is a holder of the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and a member of the advisory board of the Journal of Investing.