SEC adds alt data to 2020 examination priorities
The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations has added alternative data usage to its list of examination priorities for 2020.
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Clickstream data provider hits pause after Jumpshot controversy
Clickstream data providers are assessing the commercial viability of their datasets after news broke last week that Avast would stop providing user web-browsing data to its subsidiary Jumpshot. -
Back to Basics: Weather Data (Part One)
In this Intelligence series, we take a deep dive into the alternative data segment that is weather data. Part One will discuss what weather data is, how it is collected, how investors can access it, and the various investment use cases of weather data. -
LinkedIn granted extension to file hiQ appeal with Supreme Court
LinkedIn is making good on its promise to fight back against hiQ Labs in the notorious web-scraping case that has gripped the alternative data community for the last two years. -
January Tidbits: Frohes Neues Jahr
Our first tidbits of 2020 features the launch of Neudata News, trouble in paradise for consumer transactional and clickstream data, as well as some key takeaways from our recent seminar in Zurich. -
The ‘S’ in ESG – where to find the data
Relative to governance and environmental dimensions, investors find social factors the most difficult to incorporate into ESG analysis. Difficulty in defining social factors, their qualitative nature and the lack of corporate reporting on social issues are barriers to integrating these factors into investment decisions. Alt data sources, however, can offer investors ways to quantify qualitative social factors that need not rely on corporate disclosure information. In this report, we outline where to find datasets that measure social factors and how they can be integrated into an ESG strategy. -
Investors look to data to explain coronavirus impact
Asset managers are turning to alternative data sources in the wake of China’s coronavirus outbreak in order to identify the impact the epidemic will have on their investments in the region. The human toll of the virus is still hard to fully quant... -
Avast drops Jumpshot following data collection scrutiny
Avast has indicated that it intends to stop providing user data to Jumpshot and will begin winding down its subsidiary’s operations effective immediately, according to a statement released today by Ondrej Vlcek, Avast’s CEO. -
Zurich Seminar: Vendor shakeups and shakeouts on the cards for 2020
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. -
Zurich Seminar: Macroeconomic data use cases garner investor interest
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.
