The recent ESG backlash has led to increased scrutiny. This report provides an overview of third-party datasets that can help investors compare ESG disclosures with material sustainability performance.

The tracking of corporate jets continues to develop as a data category. We’ve seen an uptick in client numbers, decreased prices and an increase in the coverage and overall capabilities of data providers in this space. As a result of datasets becoming more sophisticated in this space, certain providers have emerged as a must-have dataset for jet-tracking investors. In this piece, we outline incumbent datasets that are popular with investors as well as free and paid alternatives. We also highlight some limitations that investors may face when using these datasets.

We outline the key datasets available to monitor the industrials sector, highlighting datasets better suited for quantitative and fundamental strategies. The sub-sectors in focus are machinery/heavy equipment, building materials, transportation and chemicals.

Last year, we observed that the POS alternative data market lacks products with a consolidated market view across diverse channels and product types. We predicted that a wave of mergers would arise to offer solution to this structural shortcoming. A year later, we can confidently state our prediction on increased merger activity was accurate. That said, the market today remains far from mature. In this report, we summarise the activity we’ve observed in the POS data landscape across 2023.

Korean ecommerce platforms have experienced a surge in business during the past three years as consumers have shifted online. In this report, we explore alternative datasets that help to understand Korea's ecommerce industry, as well as the shifts in the country’s overall retail landscape.

We return to an alternative data sector that consistently interests our readers – healthcare. In this report, we pull together all the healthcare resources on our platform to revisit key vendors, highlight common use cases and introduce new vendors, while also re-examining the sector from a compliance perspective.

In 2019, Forbes said the race to deploy 5G reflected a geopolitical rivalry that would determine political and economic fortunes for decades. Amid rising tensions between the US and China, Donald Trump declared “the race to 5G is a race that America must win”. Fast-forwarding to today, we outline the real 5G timeline, reasons for the slow rollout and alternative datasets that investors can use to monitor the space.

Conflict in Ukraine, increased attention around the climate crisis, and China’s recent lead in EV production have fuelled concerns around global energy security and the green transition. In the US, the Biden administration has demonstrated its commitment through the Inflation Reduction Act, allocating $369bn to energy security and climate change. As the energy transition accelerates, we summarise the alternative data marketplace across renewables. 

China’s automobile exports surpassed Japan's for the first time in 1H23, making it the largest car exporter in the period. Electric vehicles, accounting for around a third, were the main driver of growth. Considering China produces 60% of the world’s motive batteries used to power EVs and interest we receive at Neudata on this topic, this report highlights datasets to help monitor China’s lithium-ion battery supply chain.

The recent closure of Pacific Epoch lends a timely opportunity to review the Chinese ecommerce data landscape since our last summary three years ago. In this report, we focus on the symbiotic relationship between China’s ecommerce giants and the l...