Jason is Founder and CIO of Rayliant Global Advisors, a quantitative + fundamental asset manager specializing in Asian equities. Jason also co-founded Research Affiliates, which is a 160B asset manager specializing in Smart Beta indices and asset allocation.
Jason sits on the editorial board for the Financial Analyst Journal, the Journal of Investment Management, the Journal of Investment Consulting and the Journal of Index Investing. Jason is also adjunct professor in finance at UCLA Anderson and holds visiting professorship at Kyoto University in Japan and National Chengchi University in Taiwan.
Jason is author to 40+ journal articles and contributing author on 8 handbooks in finance and economics. Jason’s research has won 2 Graham and Dodd Scroll Award awarded by the CFA Institute, 2 Bernstein/Fabozz-Jacob/Levy Outstanding Research Award and 3 William Sharpe Best Research Award. Jason was recognized by Institutional Investor in 2008 as 1 of the 20 rising stars of the industry, and his co-invention, the Fundamental Index, won best index from the Global Pension Magazine for 2007/2008/2009.
Jason received his Ph.D. in finance from UCLA Anderson Business School. He received his MS from Stanford and BS from Caltech.
