If you can find some good data, hedge funds will hire you
In March, we said that data strategists were hot. It's September and this is still so.
Tudor Investment Corporation has just hired a new data strategist in London. He is Conor Taggart and he will seemingly be Tudor's data strategy lead.
Tudor declined to comment. Taggart did not read our message. He appears to have arrived at Tudor recently.
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Data strategists source, evaluate, clean and render into usable formats, data that might be used for hedge funds to generate alpha. Good data is very valuable. Good data strategists are in demand.
Before he worked for Tudor, Taggart worked for Eagle Alpha. Before he worked for Eagle Alpha, he worked for Millennium.
Various other data strategists have also swapped jobs this year. Dan Ostermueller arrived at Jane Street in July after previously working for Citadel. Kevin Chiu arrived at Tower Research in August, after previously working for BlackRock. Adam Brown arrived at Jump Trading, also in August, after previously working for Morgan Stanley. Rokos hired Meredith Brown in New York as a macro data strategist in July.
Quants can work in data strategy too. In Citadel's large data strategy team, for example, there are quant researchers who describe their function as, turning "noisy data into outputs that are intuitive, timely and directly usable."
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