Omega Point's Optimization Engines and Factor Models - Are They Really Turn Key?

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Omega Point has teamed up with Barra, Axialma and Wolf Research. The company's software is built to help fundamental investors cook their own stew. Alpha-driven ideas are put together in a turn key fashion so that the manager doesn't have necessarily the background in quant. It gives them insight into what decisions are being made by the computer.

After March 2020, a growing research interest of mine was the question, “how do strategies reflexively impact the markets they trade?” Beyond crowding risk, can adoption of strategies fundamentally change market dynamics.

In Season 3 Episode 11, I spoke with Omer Cedar, who argues that equity quants have done precisely that. The mass adoption of factor models, whether for alpha or risk, fundamentally changed how baskets of stocks are bought and sold. For a discretionary manager to ignore this sea change is to ignore a fundamental shift in the current of the water they swim in.

In this clip from the episode, Omer discusses how quants have changed the market and how fundamental managers should use this information to sharpen their edge.