Leveraging alternative datasets, investors can identify promising healthcare startups, assess the efficacy of new therapies, and predict market shifts with greater accuracy.
Fixed income securities traditionally include bonds, treasuries, and other debt instruments. When evaluating these securities, asset managers estimate creditworthiness and risk-return characteristics, yield curves, interest rates, and macroeconomic factors.
In this article, we provide an overview of academic research in sector rotation strategies and discuss how alternative datasets can be used in sector rotation strategies. We highlight news sentiments, ETF flows, employment data, and satellite data.
On April 25th, we were joined by a range of AI and NLP experts to discuss the rise of generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). We specifically focused on how alternative data stakeholders have been adapting their operations across infrastructure, modeling, and application.
Financial data is a broad category that includes datasets that fall between traditional and alternative data. We have broken this data category into four key sub-categories: 1) tick and pricing data; 2) flow data; 3) fundamental data; and 4) trading signals.
In today’s globalized world, economic conditions are constantly changing. That is why accurate and early forecasts of global trade flows can provide a good read on economic activity both at the macro and micro levels.
Cryptocurrency, or "crypto" as it's become widely referred to, has been one of the quickest moving trends in the investment space in recent years, with retail and institutional investors throwing their hat in the ring.
Asset managers use expert views to gain additional insights into specific industries, companies, or markets that may not be readily available through other data sources.
Pricing datasets contain information on the prices of various products or services. These datasets typically include information such as the vendor, product name, unit price, currency, and date.
On February 21st, 2023, we were joined by Seth Leonard and Matei Zatreanu of System2 (also known as Team PandaGon) who won the Hackathon at our most recent conference in New York in January 2023.
This report explores business insights as an alternative data source and how it can be used in investment analysis. We also examine leading vendors providing business insights.
This report explores open data as an alternative data source and how it can be used in investment analysis. We also examine leading vendors providing open data analytics.
