Cliff Asness
Hedge fund manager who co-founded AQR Capital Management, a quantitative investment firm.
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Who gave Republicans' Senate super PAC its second-biggest cheque in early October?
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SLF holds $88.42m, 2.7 times SMP
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Cliff Asness co-founded AQR Capital Management, a quantitative investment firm, and is its founding and managing principal. He gave $2.0m to the Republican Senate Leadership Fund on 6 October 2026, according to the Super PAC's pre-general report to the Federal Election Commission, filed on 22 October. That made him its second-largest donor of the fortnight, behind the National Association of Realtors congressional fund, as SLF ended 14 October with $88.42m in cash.
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