The Alternative Data Podcast

System2 CEO Matei Zatreanu appeared as a guest on the Alternative Data Sector Podcast. This podcast series covers some of the latest developments in the fast-growing Alternative Data sector. Satellite imaging, news-crawling, credit card data... and many more fresh new data sources are increasingly being used by the Asset Management industry to gain a competitive edge when making market decisions. They speak to data providers, asset managers, and anyone else in the sector to better understand this dynamic phenomenon.

As a provider of alternative data analysis advice to hedge funds and corporate clients, System2 CEO Matei Zatreanu sits in the privileged position of being able to explore and seek value in a vast array of alternative datasets.

This episode’s conversation covers surviving Lehman Brothers, monthly beers with the early Alt Data community in New York, using external data to help corporates capture maximum revenues, choosing the right alternative dataset, and the ongoing poker game is the financial markets.  


Q: What's the hardest thing about data?

Matei Zatreanu, System2 “And my answer is always like, it's not the data, it's the people. I guess there's tons of hard issues with the data, but the hardest part by far is the culture.”

 

Is your firm ready to explore and seek value from the vast array of available alternative datasets? Not certain where to begin? Let’s talk data.