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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Amplity Health, a pharmaceutical commercialisation conglomerate, has acquired RealHealthData, a healthcare data provider that gathers information from electronic medical records within the US.
Consumer staples had a (relatively) good year last year, with the S&P500 consumer staples subindex rising 24%. It is also a sector that fares especially well on the alternative data front. This report is going well and truly back to basics – in multiple senses of the phrase – by gathering data sources from far and wide, to help highlight the options available to consumer staples investors.
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