We discuss an industry report that polled hedge fund managers on their alternative data usage. We highlight the major challenges that respondents reported and provide a brief discussion of our own findings.

In our first-ever Sentry Intelligence report addressing data providers, we provide insights into some of the most common problems that we see data providers encounter in getting through buy-side clients’ compliance reviews. This report is for vendors, but we encourage buy-siders to refer to it and share comments with us as we work to make the scouting process more efficient for both sides of the market.

Neudata has identified over 1,500 data vendors providing 5,300+ alternative datasets to the investment management community, according to an analysis of its Neudata Scout platform. Among the datasets for which Neudata has detailed information (~1,...

We summarise a 2019 paper that discusses the barriers investors face when adopting alt data, presents a new characteristics framework to evaluate alt data, and establishes how to implement a future-proof alt data strategy.