Andrew Lo

Andrew Lo
Lo at the 2012 Time 100 gala
Born	1960 (age 56–57) Hong Kong, China
Alma mater	Yale University Harvard University
Thesis	Essays in Financial and Quantitative Economics (1984)
Doctoral advisor	Andrew Abel Jerry A. Hausman
Notable awards	American Association for Individual Investors Award Graham and Dodd Award
Website http://alo.mit.edu

Andrew Wen-Chuan Lo (Chinese: 羅聞全) (born 1960) is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Lo is the author of many academic articles in finance and financial economics. He is the chairman and chief investment strategist of the AlphaSimplex Group.

Lo is the director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial Engineering, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the NASD's Economic Advisory Board

He is the founder and chief scientific officer of AlphaSimplex Group, a quantitative investment management company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. AlphaSimplex specializes in quantitative global macro and global tactical asset allocation strategies, beta-replication products, and absolute-return risk analytics.

He is an associate editor of the Financial Analysts Journal, The Journal of Portfolio Management, the Journal of Computational Finance, and Statistica Sinica. He is a former governor of the . He previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

He has testified in front of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the U.S. House of Representatives.