Waters Wavelength Ep. 339: Northern Trust Asset Management’s Jan Rohof
This week, Jan Rohof from Northern Trust Asset Management joins to discuss how asset managers and quants get more context from data.
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This week’s guest is Jan Rohof, Asia-Pacific director of quantitative strategies and solutions at Northern Trust Asset Management
0:00 – Tony and Shen delve into two documentaries he recently watched
11:00 – Jan joins and talks about how he built a multi-factor model in high school
17:30 – The four Vs of data
20:30 – Efforts and resources required for good data infrastructure
26:30 – Focus on the economic fundamentals and reasoning
30:00 – NTAM’s research to implementation process
40:30 – Alternative data should be a misnomer
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Episode 337: Interop.io’s Bob Myers
Episode 336: Tokenization mania
Episode 335: Some tech talk...kinda
Episode 334: BofA’s Krishnan and McInnes
Episode 333: Baseball, analytics, and therapy
Episode 332: DTCC’s Val Wotton
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