Although the alternative data market has taken off in the past few years, current dataset challenges have limited its integration for systematic macro and multi-asset strategies. Finding datasets that can produce trading signals across asset classes with global coverage and adequate historical data isn’t always easy. In this report, we highlight different types of alternative datasets that overcome these hurdles and can be applied to these trading strategies.

With 2024 underway, we look back at 2023’s contribution to the alternative data landscape.

We outline the key datasets available to monitor the industrials sector, highlighting datasets better suited for quantitative and fundamental strategies. The sub-sectors in focus are machinery/heavy equipment, building materials, transportation and chemicals.

In the past couple of years, the outcomes of several high-profile legal battles involving website operators and web-scrapers set differing precedents on either side of the Atlantic. In this report, we look closer at some of the cases and what they mean for the legality of web-scraping.

We outline the challenges offshore users face as China develops its regulatory approach for the data industry.

We summarise a study that uses machine learning to identify the most relevant factors for early-stage venture capital investors.