Back to Basics: Weather Data
In this report, we discuss what weather data is, how it is collected, how investors can access it, and the various investment use cases of weather data.
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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. -
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. -
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. -
Zurich Seminar: ESG data interest picks up despite data quality concerns
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. -
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. -
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. -
Fasanara launches quant fund
Fasanara Capital, a London-based hedge fund with nearly EUR 1bn of assets under management, has opened its machine learning-driven fund to outside investors following a three-year proprietary trading period. -
Bloomberg’s alt data head joins Ascential
Jeremy Baksht, formerly the global head of alternative data at Bloomberg L.P., has joined retail consultant Ascential as the head of a new division dedicated to selling the firm’s digital economy data to hedge funds and private equity firms.