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How EventVestor Puts Alternative Data in Context
For investment firms looking to extract signals from alternative data, finding an interesting dataset is only part of the challenge. Moving that data from research into production brings a different set of requirements around quality, timeliness, consistency and historical accuracy. Those requirements are particularly important for quantitative investment firms, where apparently small discrepancies in timestamps,…
Kadoa and the New Economics of Web Data
For investment firms seeking an informational edge, the web represents an extraordinarily rich source of potential data. Product inventories and pricing, corporate activity, technology adoption, infrastructure development and countless other indicators can all provide insights that may not be available through conventional market and financial data sources. Extracting that information reliably, however, has traditionally required…
Multiplying the Value of Unstructured Data
Financial institutions have spent years expanding the range of data available to investment, trading and risk teams. Increasingly, however, the challenge is not obtaining more data but making sense of what they already have. Unstructured data is estimated to account for 80-90% of the information generated withinfinancial institutions, encompassing everything from regulatory filings and earnings-call…
MarketCheck’s Transparent Approach to Automotive Data
Most vendor conversations begin with what a dataset covers. MarketCheck on the other hand will tell you, in some detail, what its data can’t see. The company, founded in 2012, aggregates vehicle listings from public dealer advertising across the United States and Canada, and used vehicles in the UK. It captures roughly 6 million unique…
A-Team Group Announces Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026 Winners and Launches ‘State of the Market’ Report
A-Team Group today announced the highly anticipated winners of the Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026. These prestigious awards celebrate the most innovative solution providers and financial institutions that are reshaping the capital markets technology landscape across the dynamic Asia Pacific region. In conjunction with the awards, A-Team Group has also launched the “State of…
How Much Hedge Fund Alpha Is Lost Before the Model Even Runs?
How often is a hedge fund’s apparent model failure actually a data failure in disguise? A model that stops working. A backtest that does not replicate. A risk number that needs explaining. How to tell one from the other – before reaching for the model first – was the recurring question of an hour-long discussion…
Recorded Webinar: The Data Foundation for Alpha – How fragmented data is eroding hedge fund performance
Alpha depends on more than models, talent and execution. It depends on the quality, consistency and timeliness of the data behind every investment decision. Many hedge funds still operate with fragmented datasets, inconsistent identifiers and manual reconciliation processes that slow research, distort signals and increase operational risk. As firms scale across strategies, regions and asset…
Are Firms Hunting Alpha Outside While Deleting It at Home?
A trading firm will pay for 15 years of price history from a market data vendor and, on a parallel housekeeping schedule, purge its own order flow, client activity and system logs after five to seven. The vendor history is treated as an asset worth a recurring licence fee. The firm’s own data – generated…
Is the Real Value of Intraday Alternative Data in Risk, Not Alpha?
Intraday alternative data has long been the preserve of high-frequency and systematic desks, where speed provides an edge. But ask practitioners what decision it actually changes for a discretionary book, and the answer is rarely about generating a new trade, it is more about testing the one already on. Sizing, conviction and the risk sitting…
When Correlation Breaks: Why Crowding, Not Macro, Is Testing Quant Models
In February 2025, Goldman Sachs told clients the US equity market had become a stock-picker’s market: 74% of the typical S&P 500 stock’s return was being driven by company-specific factors rather than macro forces, against a 20-year average of 58%, and the bank expected that micro-driven environment to persist. Within weeks, sweeping tariff announcements had…