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SEC reportedly scraps changes to 13-F filings

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has reportedly backed down from its proposal to reform 13F filing requirements, which would have reduced the number of funds required to report their equity holdings each quarter. On Tuesday, Bloomberg rep...

News 29 Oct 2020
SimilarWeb raises $120m for acquisitions, R&D

Clickstream data provider SimilarWeb has raised USD 120m to grow its platform through acquisitions and internal R&D efforts.

News 28 Oct 2020
The Little Black Dress: Alternative Data for Apparel & Cosmetics

According to Coco Chanel, "The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive." In this Intelligence piece, we attempt to strike a balance between the two by highlighting a variety of free and commercial datasets that are highly relevant to the fashion and cosmetics investor.

Intelligence 28 Oct 2020
Glassdoor touts direct API access for funds

Glassdoor is encouraging funds to access its labour market data through its direct API, citing a tightening of its standards around sharing its API with third parties.

News 23 Oct 2020
People Moves (22 Oct): Acadian, FQS, Point72 and more

In this week's round up, we report on people moves at Acadian Asset Management, FQS Capital Partners, Point72 and more. If you'd like to submit your new job or promotion, email us at press@neudata.co.

News 22 Oct 2020
Event recap: Macro, credit investors seek alt data for global view

At our Macro & Credit Deep Dive last Thursday, Neudata analysts Julia Asri Meigh and Nicholas Ravazzani shared the types of data that could be used to track economic activity and recovery, central bank policy and trends in the fixed-income investing space.

News 21 Oct 2020
Rethinking how we evaluate and access alternative data

A recent academic paper suggests that institutional investors may benefit from rethinking how they engage with alt data. We summarise the key findings from this research. We also present the authors’ framework for which to evaluate alt datasets.

Literature Review 21 Oct 2020
FactSet to acquire TruValue Labs

FactSet has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ESG data provider TruValue Labs, the companies announced on Tuesday. TruValue, which was founded in 2013, applies natural language procession (NLP) to over 100,000 unstructured text source...

News 20 Oct 2020
Search-ing for the answer

Search volume data features heavily in academic research as a proxy for both investor and consumer attention. In this piece, we consider the strengths and weaknesses of this dataset type, as well as both free and commercially available alternatives (or complements) to the ubiquitous Google Trends.

Intelligence 20 Oct 2020
GPIF expands manager selection research with explainable AI

Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund is studying the integration of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) into its portfolios, as part of its on-going research into applying data-driven methods to the manager selection process.

News 15 Oct 2020