We outline our predictions for how the Biden administration will impact the alternative data landscape, specifically through changes at the SEC and a possible federal consumer privacy bill.

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.

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.

In Part II of our Getting the Price Right Series, we explore whether certain factors influence how much you can charge for your data. We also analyse the willingness of funds to pay for some of the most expensive datasets.