Alternative Data Industry Events

Join STR on Friday, 18 June at 12:00 P.M. (Singapore time) as STR's Jesper Palmqvist, Christine Liu and Matthew Burke outline the latest data and insights on hotel performance in key markets around the region.

Join Home Industry Experts Joe Derochowski and Pam Wood as they review changes in the home market over the past year. As the vaccine roll-out progresses in Canada, what can be learned from the U.S. to help the Canadian appliance and housewares industry prepare for the near future? Explore prominent trends and see which ones are expected to persist as NPD move into the next stages of retail recovery.

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is an evolving field within machine learning that is empowering financial market participants by extracting value from textual content at scale. The technology has been instrumental in the continued adoption of alternative data in the investment industry, and is contributing to the ever expanding data mosaic available to hedge funds and asset managers. CAIA provide concrete examples of how media attention, sentiment, and actionable events are driving financial markets across multiple asset classes and investment horizons.

Thomas Emanuel, Director at STR, hosts this exclusive session on the outlook for UK hotels. He’ll be joined by industry experts to discuss how the sector has been performing so far in 2021 together with expectations for the rest of the year.

In this virtual session, chaired by Bruno Dupire, Leif Andersen will present his current research, followed by several “lightning talks” of five minutes each in quick succession. This format gives the audience the opportunity to be exposed to a wider variety of topics.

Applications of Alternative Data in Fintech are growing at a great pace; the question is how to discover new sources of alpha and create strategies and signals. Here the challenge is to discover hidden coupling of multiple data sources. Text analysis, Natural Language Processing and analysis of News, Micro blogs, investor sentiment are well established. Bringing all these advances together new applications in trading, fund management and risk control have continued to emerge.

Join Global Retail Research Director Maureen Hinton on the 24th June at 3pm as GlobalData examine the future of European retail post covid and discuss the following topics; COVID's impact on the European retail sector and consumer behaviour, recovery trends of key European markets and winners & losers in Europe post COVID.

GlobalData’s upcoming webinar on Electric vehicles will focus on the key trends and outlook for electric vehicles. The webinar will cover the following points; growth in electric vehicles, key factors driving growth, impact of Covid-19 on the EV market

The ability to seamlessly ingest new datasets for backtesting can be a laborious and complex process. Crux and SIGTech will break down modern use cases to quickly process data from dataset identification to signal generation.

Join us for our first installment of Visible Alpha’s showcase series, Discovering Insights. In this 60-minute webcast, learn time-saving tips for earnings season, how to highlight your differentiated investment thesis and how short-term events can impact longer-term revisions. Can't make it June 30? Register to receive the recording after the live event.

In the past few years, many have heralded the increased importance of alternative data to the investment research process of hedge funds, mutual funds and pension funds. Simultaneously, many industry analysts have suggested that the traditional investment research industry is struggling due to pressures brought on by the decline in commission rates, MiFID II, and the shift to passive investing. Despite these trends, there are growing signs that the investment research and alternative data industries are converging as firms try to provide investors with both unique insights, signals, and the data that drives these insights and signals. On June 30th, 2021 a panel of two experienced executives from the alternative data industry will discuss this trend, and will identify the challenges and opportunities this creates for both producers of alternative data and research, and the consumers of this content.

The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we do business, socialize, educate our children. But how much has it changed the way we invest? Our annual Global Investing Conference will take a deep dive, beyond short-term trends, as we work to surface those with long-term implications for portfolio construction.

Gather new insights on how your business can leverage data in smarter ways to fuel your growth. The Essential Conference offers a comprehensive program of workshops and panel discussions on the biggest trends affecting the markets, and product demonstrations that will give you a better understanding of new ways to unlock value from S&P Global solutions.