Funds use to compare companies against each other with specialized datasets to make an investment. Now, managers need to see the bigger picture.

The use of alternative data can be a differentiator for an investment firm, but the effort it takes to accumulate and analyze the data can be lengthy and expensive. As a result, alt data has ...

Fundamental investment managers are mining alternative data, but some worry that the same data sets have been sold to too many people and the strategies may be overcrowded. Experts at a recent panel ...

Sophisticated investment managers learned long ago that its more and more difficult to find actionable info before the market can react to it from traditional sources of financial data – such as SEC ...

Banks and investment firms have increased their consumption of alternative data sets, but there are still challenges around selecting the most relevant data for trading purposes, according to ...

To understand the big-picture story of alternative data, one could look no further than Greg Munves. Munves joined 1010data fresh out of college in 2004 at a time when the term "alternative data" had ...

In April 2017, during an atypical criminal case fitting for an era driven by technological advancements, a jury convicted Nan Huang, an experienced data analyst at Capital One Financial Corp., of ...