SimilarWeb raises $120m for acquisitions, R&D
Clickstream data provider SimilarWeb has raised USD 120m to grow its platform through acquisitions and internal R&D efforts.
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The Little Black Dress: Alternative Data for Apparel & Cosmetics
According to Coco Chanel, "The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive." In this Intelligence piece, we attempt to strike a balance between the two by highlighting a variety of free and commercial datasets that are highly relevant to the fashion and cosmetics investor. -
Glassdoor touts direct API access for funds
Glassdoor is encouraging funds to access its labour market data through its direct API, citing a tightening of its standards around sharing its API with third parties. -
People Moves (22 Oct): Acadian, FQS, Point72 and more
In this week's round up, we report on people moves at Acadian Asset Management, FQS Capital Partners, Point72 and more. If you'd like to submit your new job or promotion, email us at press@neudata.co. -
Event recap: Macro, credit investors seek alt data for global view
At our Macro & Credit Deep Dive last Thursday, Neudata analysts Julia Asri Meigh and Nicholas Ravazzani shared the types of data that could be used to track economic activity and recovery, central bank policy and trends in the fixed-income investing space. -
Rethinking how we evaluate and access alternative data
A recent academic paper suggests that institutional investors may benefit from rethinking how they engage with alt data. We summarise the key findings from this research. We also present the authors’ framework for which to evaluate alt datasets. -
Search-ing for the answer
Search volume data features heavily in academic research as a proxy for both investor and consumer attention. In this piece, we consider the strengths and weaknesses of this dataset type, as well as both free and commercially available alternatives (or complements) to the ubiquitous Google Trends. -
GPIF expands manager selection research with explainable AI
Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund is studying the integration of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) into its portfolios, as part of its on-going research into applying data-driven methods to the manager selection process. -
People Moves (15 Oct): Citadel, DE Shaw, Ravenpack and more
In this week's round up, we report on people moves at Citadel, DE Shaw, Ravenpack and more. If you'd like to submit your new job or promotion, email us at press@neudata.co. -
Back to basics: Human capital and labour market data (Part II)
In part II, we continue our analysis of employment-related datasets. Specifically, we explore the investment use cases and alternative sources for talent tracking, salary data, employee sentiment and labour relations information.