Catalyst Funds launches algorithmic fund
Catalyst Funds, an alternatives investment firm, has launched a new machine learning-based fund that invests in futures contracts to gain exposure to 39 major global asset classes.
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Rezatec raises GBP 5m for expansion plans
Rezatec, a geospatial data analytics firm, has raised GBP 5m from Gresham House Ventures, a growth equity investor, for expansion into key global markets. -
The State of Permanency Risk in 2020
Given the recent spate of dataset terminations, we thought it pertinent to share our insight on the topic of permanency risk. For an industry reliant on the sharing of data, it comes as no surprise that the ever-growing spotlight on data privacy has huge implications for dataset permanency risk. As the alternative data space becomes increasingly saturated, it’s also the case that lower quality datasets are getting filtered out of the market more quickly. So what do these developments mean for data buyers? -
Quant funds dial up interest in human capital, ad spend data
Quantitative investment managers are investigating datasets that quantify environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, as well as those that show companies' customer acquisition efforts, according to analysis of recent activity on Neudata’s Scout platform. -
SEC adds alt data to 2020 examination priorities
The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations has added alternative data usage to its list of examination priorities for 2020. -
Clickstream data provider hits pause after Jumpshot controversy
Clickstream data providers are assessing the commercial viability of their datasets after news broke last week that Avast would stop providing user web-browsing data to its subsidiary Jumpshot. -
Back to Basics: Weather Data
In this report, we discuss what weather data is, how it is collected, how investors can access it, and the various investment use cases of weather data. -
LinkedIn granted extension to file hiQ appeal with Supreme Court
LinkedIn is making good on its promise to fight back against hiQ Labs in the notorious web-scraping case that has gripped the alternative data community for the last two years. -
January Tidbits: Frohes Neues Jahr
Our first tidbits of 2020 features the launch of Neudata News, trouble in paradise for consumer transactional and clickstream data, as well as some key takeaways from our recent seminar in Zurich. -
Avast drops Jumpshot following data collection scrutiny
Avast has indicated that it intends to stop providing user data to Jumpshot and will begin winding down its subsidiary’s operations effective immediately, according to a statement released today by Ondrej Vlcek, Avast’s CEO.