Alternative data
ESG Disclosures Will be a Data Sourcing Headache for the Buy Side
The draft technical standards for the EU's updated disclosures regulation will impact most market participants, analysts say.
UBS Evidence Lab Uses Machine Learning for Maritime Datasets
Financial services firms have been looking to maritime data for economic insight during the coronavirus pandemic.
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IHS Markit Rolls Out New Buy-Side Derivatives Risk Modeling Platform
The product combines emerging technologies to offer speed, scale, and new perspectives on credit spreads and portfolio performance by overlaying financial data with alt data.
BlackRock’s Head of Sustainable Research: Covid-19 Could Bring Green Recovery
The ESG space is gaining attention as asset managers try to navigate today's volatile markets. Andre Bertolotti believes this to be more than fad.
Start-up Fund Manager Hunts for ‘Joy’ During Pandemic
Infusive Asset Management is blending traditional and alternative datasets to find companies and services that bring “joy” to consumers.
FISD Advances Alt Data Standards, Taps Pritchard to Boost Engagement
Explosive interest in the alternative data sector is driving FISD membership growth as demand to participate in its alternative data group soars.
Four Asset Managers Explain How They Incorporate ESG Data
Execs From UBS AM, Lazard AM, DWS, and East Capital look at incorporating ESG data into their investment practices for more holistic views of risk and opportunity.
Geolocation Data Spotlights Covid Recovery
Hedge funds are using geolocation data to both spot signs of a pandemic recovery and to see its ripple-effect damages.
To Tackle ‘Covid Economy,’ Facteus Adds Real-Time Consumer Spend Data to Revenue Predictor
When Facteus (then known as ARM Insight) designed Enlightmint prior to the coronavirus outbreak, it never envisaged that its target users would be interested in receiving data in real time.
Balyasny AM's CDO: Going Quantamental with Alternative Data
Carson Boneck shares his thoughts on Balyasny's efforts to marry the best of its fundamental and quant teams.
Morningstar Wades Further into ESG Space with Sustainalytics Acquisition
The ESG data space has seen a fair amount of M&A activity in recent years, and that is likely to continue, sources say.
Covid-19 Tumult Tests AI Fund Returns
Some machine learning strategies have coped well, but others began to struggle as panic mounted.
Bloomberg Enhances Mapping Tool to Track Covid-19 Impact
The data giant is releasing regional features and functionality to more closely monitor the coronavirus across companies and sectors.
Morgan Stanley’s AlphaWise Uses Alt Data to Track Coronavirus
The bank’s research business is using artificial intelligence, traditional consumer surveys, and visualization techniques to monitor the impact of Covid-19.
Covid-19 Is Raising the ESG Stakes
Unlike in past financial crises, ESG is taking center stage as social and governance data is directly relevant to all companies weathering the coronavirus pandemic. That makes the holes in that data, which still remain, all the more apparent.
Lazard Asset Management Looks to Reinvent Asset Classifications
The firm is developing themed asset categories for investors by finding new correlations in alternative datasets.
Alt Data Market Could Take Deep Hit Due to Coronavirus
If hedge funds and VCs tighten their spending in 2020—a likely outcome—it could be the alternative data market taking the brunt of the punishment.
FCA Sizes up Alt Data for Insider Trading, Irking Funds
The UK regulator is examining new data sources’ potential to confer an unfair market advantage.
Thasos Group Assets Acquired By Market Service Inc.
The location data specialist has been sold after falling upon rough times last year.
Ex-Hedge Fund Data Exec Sets Up Alt Data Advisory Firm
Petrescu is already working with a handful of new and established data providers on product development and strategy for financial markets.
Data ‘Disconnect’: New ML Tools Stuck Solving Old Data Problems
Experts advise using machine learning to solve data quality challenges before applying it to alpha-generating strategies.
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In order to find a real trend, people must first dig through a load of crap.
Alt Data Lends a Different Light to Coronavirus Impact
Smog, traffic data—even movie rentals—help analysts track economic effects of the virus.
IHS Markit Builds Out Alt Data Library for Research Signals
The data service provider is widening its coverage of alt datasets for signals in cyber risk and controversy data.