The Rise of the Star Manager

The amount of information in the world has grown exponentially and we were not being able to tap into it because it was just too big, too complicated. We stuck 25 data scientists in the middle of the investment floor, said it's a free resource and told them to go and disrupt what we were doing. And I'll give you a simple example: The brand database that we have is something like 30 billion rows long. Well, you can't give that to a portfolio manager and say, go figure, you need a data scientist sitting with them to help them interpret it. So this is not about running quant funds. This is about giving fundamental analysts really good insights into what's going on in