Matt Ober

9 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 25, 2019 by Matt Ober · across every show →

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Feb 25, 2019 negative
Opinion
Ober: Satellite car-counting data rarely drives hedge fund investment decisions
“I don't think that there's a lot of firms really counting cars in parking lots, and that's what's really making their, ah, decision making.”
Matt Ober Feb 25, 2019 ▶ 8:34 Fireside Chat: Matt Ober, Chief Data Scientist at Third Point (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Feb 25, 2019
Disclosure
Ober: Third Point looks to outsource data structuring and ingestion
“It's something we do do ourself. I think it's one of those areas where data structuring, even data ingestion and onboarding data sets is something that us and most firms are looking at how do we, you know, outsource that to another company because we're only s…”
Matt Ober Feb 25, 2019 ▶ 30:44 Fireside Chat: Matt Ober, Chief Data Scientist at Third Point (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Feb 25, 2019
Opinion
Ober: Culture is the biggest hurdle for fundamental hedge funds
“I mean, I think the culture is the biggest Hurdle that all these funds face.”
Matt Ober Feb 25, 2019 ▶ 17:50 Fireside Chat: Matt Ober, Chief Data Scientist at Third Point (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Feb 25, 2019
Insight
Ober: Simpler financial models outperform complex machine learning over time
“Going back to the very basics, you kind of find that, like, the simpler it is, the better it actually performs over time, if you're not trading at this higher frequency.”
Matt Ober Feb 25, 2019 ▶ 16:05 Fireside Chat: Matt Ober, Chief Data Scientist at Third Point (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Feb 25, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Matt Ober: Alternative data adoption expanded from quants to private equity and mutual funds
“Yeah, I mean, I think obviously at the beginning it was definitely all quantitative hedge funds that were consuming as much data as possible. I think now if you go to some of these conferences like Battlefin, where you can have hundreds of data meetings in one…”
Matt Ober Feb 25, 2019 ▶ 26:55 Fireside Chat: Matt Ober, Chief Data Scientist at Third Point (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Feb 25, 2019
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ober: Alternative macroeconomic data will eventually become widely accessible
“Now maybe it's only a few people that are leveraging it, and it's alpha, and eventually it becomes something that everybody has access to.”
Matt Ober Feb 25, 2019 ▶ 25:29 Fireside Chat: Matt Ober, Chief Data Scientist at Third Point (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Feb 25, 2019 bullish
Disclosure
Third Point aims to centralize thousands of datasets for instant company analysis
“As a team, it's, you know, how do we incorporate and leverage all this rich and unique data that's out there and kind of bring it into one real centralized place. So to really understand companies and coming from thousands of different data sets so that we can…”
Matt Ober Feb 25, 2019 ▶ 23:09 Fireside Chat: Matt Ober, Chief Data Scientist at Third Point (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Feb 25, 2019 neutral
Insight
Ober: Quant funds require two years of backtestable daily data before purchasing
“If you're going to sell to a quantitative hedge fund, anything less than two years of daily data that's really been stored point in time that you can really back test is really going to be tough to make that ten million dollar sale.”
Matt Ober Feb 25, 2019 ▶ 11:39 Fireside Chat: Matt Ober, Chief Data Scientist at Third Point (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Feb 25, 2019 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ober: The era of multi-million dollar single-dataset sales is over
“The multi-million dollar data sales was maybe something that you saw three, four, five years ago. I think now that, you know, people are understanding what data is actually worth they're maybe not trying to get exclusive access to just one data set because the…”
Matt Ober Feb 25, 2019 ▶ 10:08 Fireside Chat: Matt Ober, Chief Data Scientist at Third Point (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
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