Clifton Global, an international executive search firm specializing in the placement of quants and big/alternative data executives, published the attached report that examines hiring trends for alternative data-focused asset managers.
Estimize, an open financial estimates platform, launched a series of one-day conferences called Learn 2 Quant.
Greenwich Associates published a new report (attached) that examines how asset managers and hedge funds are finding, using, and benefiting from alternative data sources
Quinlan & Associates published a 50-page report on the use of alternative data in the asset management industry.
Digimind is a social media monitoring and competitive intelligence company that provides information on brands and products in more than 200 languages. We arranged this interview with Digimind Director Ross Martinez to better understand how asset managers could use social media data.
Organizations struggle with an endless flow of data they collect in different formats and from a wide range of sources. Businesses have to deal with the speed of data flows, manage infrastructure costs and ultimately find meaningful insights from all this information.
FNGO provides high frequency and comprehensive South Korea export data to institutional investors. We arranged this interview with FNGO CEO Min Kim to understand the possibilities that trade data brings.
Alternative data consists of newly available data sources that arise from recent technological changes.
PeerLogix, an advertising technology and data aggregation company, tracks and catalogs over-the-top (OTT) viewership and listenership in order to determine consumer trends and preferences based upon media consumption.
GSAM’s Emerging Markets CORE Equity fund reported impressive results: the returns equaled 52% over a three-year period and assets under management increased by more than 75% in H1 2017.
WorldQuant, a quantitative investment management firm, published an overview article about the alternative data space.
