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

Data from Coalition Greenwich shows that alternative data continues to grow rapidly with its perceived value increasing, while firms work towards improving how best to utilise these alt data sets.

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 ...

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 ...

Alternative data—generally, data generated as a byproduct of other business activities—has been the darling of hedge funds over the past half-dozen years. But after a blinding start, has the alt data ...

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 ...