There has been an increasing momentum on the topic of alternative data. The Economist, Fast Company, HFM Week (attached) and Wall Street Journal have all recently published articles with an industry overview. Below are interesting datasets that were mentioned.
On the 29th of July, we published a research note on Fitbit highlighting the company’s success both in activity tracker and running watch categories. Two new products were launched in Q1 of 2016, the Blaze and the Alta, and gained significant market shares in Q2.
Quants and quantamental firms have been leveraging alternative data for years. Why haven’t more firms with fundamental strategies started alternative data pods / teams?
Lululemon has been on the strong run since the lows of November last year with the stock rallying 70% and the market expectations were elevated ahead of their Q2 2016 numbers.
We arranged this interview with Mark Townsend in order to understand the current recruitment trends within the asset management industry.
Joseph Hooley, chairman and CEO of State Street Corporation, in a recent article for Institutional Investor gave three examples of how investors can use alternative data sources to identify new opportunities as well as potential risk exposure:
On the 12th of August, we published a research note on HPQ highlighting changes across four product categories and the company confirmed our findings when it reported its earnings on the 25th of August:
Pokémon Go has been significantly affecting Nintendo Co. Ltd.’s share price with analysts also noticing secondary plays. The game passed the mark of 100 million installs and reached $10 million in daily revenues, however it appears that Pokémon Go’s peak is now behind us.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced it would further improve its Complaint Database by giving consumers an option to “rate the company’s handling of his or her complaint on a one-to-five scale and provide a narrative description in support of the rating.”
inkedIn decided to sue 100 individuals for using bots collecting user profiles.
Fundamental data can often be a lag or at best coincident indicator of an asset value, but when combined with alternative data such as investor positioning/sentiment we can build a much clearer outlook for future price direction.
Descartes Labs, a startup analyzing satellite imagery data, announced that it would make its corn yield forecast available for free and updated every week throughout the 2016 growing season.
