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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
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
People Moves (15 Oct): Citadel, DE Shaw, Ravenpack and more

In this week's round up, we report on people moves at Citadel, DE Shaw, Ravenpack and more. If you'd like to submit your new job or promotion, email us at press@neudata.co.

News 15 Oct 2020
Back to basics: Human capital and labour market data (Part II)

In part II, we continue our analysis of employment-related datasets. Specifically, we explore the investment use cases and alternative sources for talent tracking, salary data, employee sentiment and labour relations information.

Intelligence 15 Oct 2020
Can I Scrape [LinkedIn]?

We constantly hear concerns related to scraping. Many of these concerns are still expressed at a high level, indicating broad uncertainty even in the face of the hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corporation decision.

Sentry 13 Oct 2020
People Moves (8 Oct): Blackrock, Geospark, Captify and more

In this week's round up, we report on people moves at Blackrock, Geospark Analytics, Captify, DMALINK and more. If you'd like to submit your new job or promotion, email us at press@neudata.co.

News 8 Oct 2020
Is inflation higher than official figures?

Academic research suggests that official CPI figures in the post-pandemic era have not been an accurate reflection of consumer prices. We summarise key findings from a recent study and outline the alternative data sources that can help build a more accurate gauge of inflation.

Literature Review 7 Oct 2020
For The Long Haul: Alternative Datasets For The Logistics Sector

3Q20 saw logistics giants FedEx and UPS observe the best quarterly performance in decades. And with the holiday season just around corner, analyst consensus indicates that this streak might not be stopping any time soon. In this report, we highlight the various alternative datasets available to logistics investors.

Intelligence 6 Oct 2020