Amy Dafnis, analyst at Neudata, presented to attendees at the firm’s Zurich Summit about opportunities and challenges that arise when forecasting and “nowcasting” economic indicators and recommended several datasets for investors to consider.

Industry players are expecting greater consolidation among data providers, more dataset terminations and an increase in competition among vendors to provide more robust analysis in 2020, said Daryl Smith, Neudata’s head of research, at the firm’s Zurich Summit on Tuesday.

Asset managers can use data sources from third parties and company stakeholders to build a holistic and objective picture of the ESG quality of companies, according to Julia Meigh, VP of ESG research at Neudata.

Ian Webster, senior VP at Neudata, presented to a group of asset management firms on consumer transactional data on Wednesday.

McLaren is a racing team that has long been defined by its approach to data analysis, so it was a crowd-puller when the company’s Head of Modelling and Data Sciences Dr Karl Surmacz presented at the Neudata London Summit 2019.

A packed Neudata summit held at the Science Museum in London’s Kensington was the scene this week for two days of speakers, knowledge sharing and one-to-one networking for global experts in the alternative data market.

It hasn’t happened yet, but a range of alt data sources are key indicators for the repercussions of the UK’s (expected) exit from the European Union, delegates heard at the Neudata London Summit 2019.