Alpha Quantamental, an equity long/short fund that incorporates data-driven techniques into its stock-picking process, is considering an expansion into options trading at the behest of clients looking for higher risk investments.
Published research suggests that there is a relationship between mobile app usage and the financial performance of publicly traded companies. We summarise the findings of this research and also highlight several Neudata-listed alternative data providers that may be applicable for such use cases.
Knoema, a data management platform, has acquired alternative data aggregator Adaptive Management.
Datasets derived from the Internet of Things often lie on the fringe of the established alternative data universe. They are rarities or curiosities. In our IoT series, we shed light on the technologies that enable device connectivity, issues of data ownership, and alt data applications of IoT technology. In part one, we take a big picture approach by providing an introduction to IoT search engines.
Europe is moving ahead with plans to create a single market in data and establish policies to become a leader in business data collection and distribution, the European Commission announced Wednesday.
Online consumer insights provider Hitwise is ceasing operations after 20 years in business citing “events outside its control”, the company announced Tuesday.
Catalyst Funds, an alternatives investment firm, has launched a new machine learning-based fund that invests in futures contracts to gain exposure to 39 major global asset classes.
Given the recent spate of dataset terminations, we thought it pertinent to share our insight on the topic of permanency risk. For an industry reliant on the sharing of data, it comes as no surprise that the ever-growing spotlight on data privacy has huge implications for dataset permanency risk. As the alternative data space becomes increasingly saturated, it’s also the case that lower quality datasets are getting filtered out of the market more quickly. So what do these developments mean for data buyers?
Rezatec, a geospatial data analytics firm, has raised GBP 5m from Gresham House Ventures, a growth equity investor, for expansion into key global markets.
Quantitative investment managers are investigating datasets that quantify environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, as well as those that show company’s customer acquisition efforts, according to analysis of recent activity on Neudata’s Scout platform.
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