Given that we are fully supportive of the Taking It Easy lifestyle, we relay the following without judgment, and perhaps even with a bit of “break me off a piece of that.”

One of AQR’s founding partners, Robert Krail, has been completely absent from the firm for almost three years now. He moved out to Hollywood and bought a $20mm house. Arguably, this is in violation of the key personnel provision in most of the firm’s investors’ offering memorandum. If anyone is trying to get out of the lockup they could use that.

Comments (35)

  1. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 12:28 PM

    Bob is the smartest of them all. Cashed out and rode off into the sunset. Good for the guy.

  2. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 12:29 PM

    This is all well and good. But when do we start getting leakage about the stress tests?
    Have Jamie, Ken, Vikram, etc., been summoned?
    Have the final answers been given?
    Who will be diluting the piss out of their shareholders first?

  3. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 12:30 PM

    @2- no, no, and BAC/C.
    any other questions?

  4. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 12:31 PM

    Bob will be one of the main characters in the upcoming season of Californication
    Go Bob!!!!!

  5. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 12:32 PM

    The only “key personnel” mentioned in legal documents is Dr. Cliff Asness. Everyone knows AQR = Cliffy. The other guys are water boys.

  6. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 12:33 PM

    @4 really?

  7. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 12:34 PM

    Something seems funny about a guy cashing out and moving to the gay part of Los Angeles.

  8. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 12:35 PM

    @7- you have not seen Bob’s wife. The other partners’ wives look like overweight, disease-ridden whores compared to Mrs. Robert Krail.

  9. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 12:36 PM

    I thought I saw Bob in a recent episode of Entourage when the boys were hanging out at Hyde

  10. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 12:44 PM
  11. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 12:46 PM

    How do I know if I am prestigious enough for GS?

  12. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 12:47 PM

    -@11
    You asked, so you are not.

  13. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 12:51 PM

    Arsenal or Manchester United?

  14. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 12:55 PM

    12 WON

  15. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 12:57 PM

    @9 I was literally thrown out of Hyde once. Not easy to do as the stairs leading up to the back door are steep. Didn’t see Bob tho.

  16. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 12:57 PM

    @10- that house is sweet

  17. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 12:58 PM

    rebuttal from cliff in 3, 2, 1…

  18. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 1:03 PM

    The real problem is that Bob is still taking his founding partner’s share of the income. This is a huge source of friction among the principals.

  19. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 1:06 PM

    Is there a former or a current AQR employee that is not on the DealBreaker boards?
    And 12 does win.

  20. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 1:08 PM

    “The real problem is that Bob is still taking his founding partner’s share of the income. This is a huge source of friction among the principals.”
    well, yeah.

  21. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 1:21 PM

    @22 The $20m is in West Hollywood

  22. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 1:29 PM

    I look at pictures of that house and then I visualize my apartment.
    Then I look outside at the 50 degree rain in May.
    After nailing your mother, I ask myself, why do I in fact live in New York?

  23. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 1:30 PM

    @14 ManU = gay.
    But the f*ckers will still win.

  24. Posted by Lowly Assistant | May 5, 2009 at 1:43 PM

    24,
    Take everyone on the 4/5 in the morning, give them blow w/no alcohol, and you’re still not even close to achieving the full level of obnoxiousness which is Los Angeles. (Although the women kill this horse and pony show, so there’s that…)
    For argument’s sake, I’d do Pasadena.

  25. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 1:55 PM

    @26 Los Angeles story ->My girl and I were at a pool party (birthday party no less) and at this party was Eva Angelina just hanging out as a friend of a friend. It took me about 15 minutes of where do I know her from?

  26. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 2:17 PM

    @27
    I give up, were you like first year analyst training buddies at Jeffries or something?

  27. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 3:08 PM

    …and who do you think it was? Emilio Estevez! The Mighty Duck man himself! And I was like “EMILIO!”
    best birthday pool party EVAR

  28. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 3:32 PM

    I fell into the LaBrea tar pits and had to be fished out with a crane
    The Guy From Delaware

  29. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 3:40 PM

    @TGFD you’re not dead? hurrah!

  30. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 3:45 PM

    Not 31 here, but what is the real story with TGFD. Did he pass away or was that just some sort of joke?

  31. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 3:54 PM

    apparently he suffered a “Cerebral Enema”
    check closing bell from yesterday.

  32. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 3:57 PM

    stfu about TGFD. this is about AQR.

  33. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 4:05 PM

    Fuck AQR. Worst move of my career.
    l8r b1tches!

  34. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 8:51 PM

    Who cares what Clifford says. AQR is a sham built on bad theories and is down a zillion percent the last couple of years. Some “alpha”.

  35. Posted by guest | May 5, 2009 at 9:07 PM

    @7
    Wow you sound like a 1st class douche bag.

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