Strategic Insights

Private Equity: Profiting From Alternative Data
Alternative data is increasingly being used in private markets including private equity, real estate, credit, and infrastructure, across deal origination, due diligence, and post-acquisition value creation.
Alt Data Adoption
Interview with an Employment Data Provider
The company’s vision is centered around being the global leader in delivering perfect job market information. We do that with a very unique approach to the online job space in that we only index job openings directly from company websites.
Interview with a Social Media Data Provider
This vendor is the leader in audience-based social media measurement for financial services firms that want to understand the impact and effectiveness of marketing and social media campaigns on their portfolio investment firms.
Interview with a Business Insights Data Provider
This vendor’s data tracks executives and alerts asset managers to changes in the C-suite’s potential to deliver positive business outcomes and maintain a highly functional, stable, and performance-driven executive management team.
Philip Brittan from Crux Informatics on Data Integration Challenges
Data is a very complicated area and there is a number of big challenges of different kinds. Investors need to tackle all of these challenges to be successful in using data in their investment strategies.