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Webinar Preview: Buy-Side Best Practices to Navigate a Challenging Data Landscape

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The buy side is facing fresh challenges as rapid digitalisation, shifting geopolitics and economic uncertainty force investors to evolve their investment strategies.

While firms are turning to data to make sense of, and react to, these new volatilities, that surge of information is posing its own set of challenges too, particularly on how to manage it.

Further, the erosion of boundaries between the front- and back-office means, also, that the traditional division of responsibilities between them has changed and there is now a greater flow of information throughout the enterprise. Traders, risk managers, research and sales teams must now work together as never before to ensure the entire firm is working from the same data page.

Adding to their difficulties, the information they need has changed. No longer are they working solely with standardised market or enterprise data. Increasing volumes of unstructured data is flowing into buy-side systems as new technologies, including artificial intelligence, enables the digitalisation and standardisation of information found in such source as reports, transcripts and even social media posts.

A-Team Group Webinar

As buy-side demand for ever-more sophisticated data management tools swells, A-Team Group’s latest Data Management Insight webinar will bring leading names in the sector together to discuss the best practices that will ensure firms get the most from their data.

The webinar, entitled “Best practices for buy-side data management across structured and unstructured data” will be held on November 14 and moderated by A-Team Group’s Sarah Underwood.

Speakers will comprise Christina Schack, Head of Data Operations and Strategy at Vontobel Asset Management; Gurprit Singh, Global Head of Data and Analytics at Partners Capital; John Joseph, Head of Sales Engineering at Xceptor; and, Sam Barber, Head of Data Services Product Development Rimes.

Changed Markets

As the nature of buy-side activities has changed, so have their workflows, and the data on which they operate.

Alternative markets have become very important to the buy-side as investor appetite for non-listed equity and private credit assets has surged. Data on these opaque markets is often difficult to obtain, posing obstacles to drawing new investment and risk workflows around them.

Similarly, investor and regulatory demands for ESG integration into buy-side strategies has forced firms to invest in sustainability ratings and risk models, all of which require sophisticated – and often costly – new data feeds.

The buy-side is also subject to tougher reporting standards, not only from regulators – who continue to pile compliance requirements onto firms – but also from clients who want greater granularity in post-trade analyses and insights.

These new input requirements have fed into the sector’s ongoing efforts to reduce overheads as fees continue to be compressed and margins eroded.

New Environment

With this challenging new environment in mind, webinar speakers will discuss the state of play on buy-side data management, the challenges presented by structured and unstructured data, and how to resolve these challenges and improve data management.

They will also look at the potential of modern data management platform solutions, offer practical guidance on planning and implementation and examine the business benefits of best practice data management.

  • A-Team Group Data Management Insight’s webinar “Best practices for buy-side data management across structured and unstructured data” will be held on November 14 at 10am ET/ 3pm GMT/4pm CET. Register your attendance here.

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