{"id":55845,"date":"2016-12-28T08:39:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T13:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=55845"},"modified":"2016-12-28T08:39:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T13:39:07","slug":"data-scientists-making-millions-vie-with-fund-managers-over-pay-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2016\/data-scientists-making-millions-vie-with-fund-managers-over-pay-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Data Scientists Making Millions Vie With Fund Managers Over Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) Portfolio managers at hedge funds have another thing to worry about: the $2 million data scientist.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Ober, who left WorldQuant for Third Point, will be paid more than $2 million by Dan Loeb\u2019s hedge fund, according to a breach of contract claim filed by his former employer. Ober, 32, who starts next month as Third Point\u2019s chief data scientist, said in a filing that he will be paid a base salary of $200,000, the same as WorldQuant gave him, plus bonuses, and disputed that $2 million in compensation is guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-12-22\/data-scientists-making-millions-vie-with-fund-managers-over-pay\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Portfolio managers at hedge funds have another thing to worry about: the $2 million data scientist. Matt Ober, who left WorldQuant for Third Point, will be paid more than $2 million by Dan Loeb\u2019s hedge fund, according to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55846,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55845\/revisions\/55846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}