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ALTERNATIVE DATA FOR ALPHA

Big data and NLP technologies to collect, structure, and reveal events from news articles, press releases, and financial social media and share it with our clients via dashboards or API

FIRST TO INVEST

ALTERNATIVE DATA FOR ALPHA

Big data and NLP technologies to collect, structure, and reveal events from news articles, press releases, and financial social media and share it with our clients via dashboards or API

Data-driven firms are increasingly augmenting their decision-making processes using alternative data sources from news and social media.

In today’s noisy environment, it is essential to have a bigger and clearer picture of companies and countries financial activities by being able to collect, structure, and reveal important events in order the capture alpha.

Using big data and NLP technologies powered by dedicated classifiers, dictionaries and clusters for the financial industry, provides the opportunity to sift through the noise and find only the relevant events which impact financial outcomes of companies and countries.

To empower the technology, a hybrid model of machine and human is being used to provide accuracy of data classification, context, and sources to ensure maximum value for our clients.

The output is an accurate and clean dataset contains only the important events where each is scored based on its impact on the company’s performance, which indicates the direction (bullish/bearish) and duration (long/short term).

The data is presented via visually compelling, interactive dashboards or as CSV file via FTP or API.

Our data and system are being used by world-leading quants, quantamental, fundamental hedgefunds and assets managers, private equity and corporates.

NLP

Use case

Quants / Quantamental

Input data feed in quantitative models

Dataset

  • Clean dataset using a hybrid model for accuracy and advance clusters for data relationship

  • Each event is scored based on its impact on the company’s performance, which indicates the direction (bullish/bearish) and duration (long/short term)

  • Structure machine-readable dataset

  • Delivered daily via S3, API, FTP

  • Trusted by top tier quant shops

  • A trial period for backtesting

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Private equity / Venture capital

Alternative data provides an element of nuance that can be valuable to PE investors

DD on target company

  • Use alternative data to identify fast growing companies by monitoring events of a target company to make data-driven decisions: new product launch, fundraising, expansion to new markets, partnerships, joint venture, acquisition, management change, changes in product pricing model, regulatory decisions, financial reports, and compare the data with public-traded peers

Portfolio companies

  • Track portfolio companies’ corporate events to monitor their business activities and make the right adjustment to their strategy

Special projects

  • Short-term DD, industry analysis and monitoring a basket of Private companies

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Corporate

Decision-makers understand that combination of alternative data and in-house data resources provides more understanding around their customers and competitors

Competitors monitoring

  • Track competitor’s corporate events such new products, management change, M&A, new deals, new agreements, expansion to new markets, ESG and more

  • Benchmark against other peers and industry performance

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January 2020

Industry overview using alternative data: Oil & Gas Integrated

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Alternative data for Quantamental

Alternative Data for Quantamental Quantamental investing is a term that is now being used to describe a combination of these methods on different data sets to improve on the accuracy of predicting outcomes – such as stock prices or a company (or country)’s financial performance. In the most [...]

Alternative data for private equity funds

Alternative data for private equity funds In today’s fast-paced M&A environment, deal making is increasingly a challenging task. Competition is only increasing as private equity (PE) firms, strategies, and other investors aggressively vie for the most attractive targets. The biggest PE managers are investing in alternative data to [...]

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Use case

Quants

Input data feed in quantitative models

Dataset

  • Clean dataset using a hybrid model for accuracy and advance clusters for data relationship

  • Each event is scored based on its impact on the company’s performance, which indicates the direction (bullish/bearish) and duration (long/short term)

  • Structure machine-readable dataset

  • Delivered daily via S3, API, FTP

  • Trusted by top tier quant shops

  • A trial period for backtesting

Portfolio managers

Embrace alternative data and effectively adopt a more quantitative approach

Analysis levels

  • Markets

  • Indices

  • Sectors

  • Industries

  • Companies

  • ETFs

  • Portfolio

  • Countries

Functionality

  • Friendly and easy to use interface

  • Event-driven score by date range

  • ML data query

  • Import/Export lists

  • Key influencer factor indicator

  • Advance filtering

  • Export to xls, csv, pdf, ppt

  • Email and phone alerts on event-driven score changes

  • Share notes and other information with colleagues to encourage organized collaboration

Privet equity

Alternative data provides an element of nuance that can be valuable to PE investors

DD on target company

  • Use alternative data to identify fast growing companies by monitoring events of a target company to make data-driven decisions: new product launch, fundraising, expansion to new markets, partnerships, joint venture, acquisition, management change, changes in product pricing model, regulatory decisions, financial reports, and compare the data with public-traded peers

Portfolio companies

  • Track portfolio companies’ corporate events to monitor their business activities and make the right adjustment to their strategy

Special projects

  • Short-term DD, industry analysis and monitoring a basket of privet companies

Corporate

Decision-makers understand that combination of alternative data and in-house data resources provides more understanding around their customers and competitors

Competitors monitoring

  • Track competitor’s corporate events such new products, management change, M&A, new deals, new agreements, expansion to new markets, ESG and more

  • Benchmark against other peers and industry performance

February 2020

Coronavirus and companies reaction on its implication

Coronavirus and companies' reaction on its implication The World Health Organization official said other governments need to prepare for“domestic outbreak control” if the disease spreads in their countries. The spread has spooked global markets and threatened prospects for economic growth. an updated number as for Feb 09 reach [...]

January 2020

Industry overview using alternative data: Oil & Gas Integrated

Industry overview using alternative data: Oil & Gas Integrated An integrated oil and gas company is a business entity that engages in the exploration, production, refinement, and distribution of oil and gas. Given the high entry costs relating to many oil and gas industry operations, many of the world's [...]

Alternative data for Quantamental

Alternative Data for Quantamental Quantamental investing is a term that is now being used to describe a combination of these methods on different data sets to improve on the accuracy of predicting outcomes – such as stock prices or a company (or country)’s financial performance. In the most [...]

Alternative data for private equity funds

Alternative data for private equity funds In today’s fast-paced M&A environment, deal making is increasingly a challenging task. Competition is only increasing as private equity (PE) firms, strategies, and other investors aggressively vie for the most attractive targets. The biggest PE managers are investing in alternative data to [...]

December 2019

Alternative data corporate event 2019 statistics

Alternative data corporate event 2019 statistics The stock markets will finish 2019 with double-digit gains for the 8th time out of the last 11 years. During 2019, our system capture 38K events (68% bullish events vs. 32% bearish once). Here is 2019 statistics: We are excited to see [...]

Alternative data: ESG Case Study

Alternative data: ESG Case Study Environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) refers to the three central factors in measuring the sustainability and ethical impact of an investment in a company or business. These criteria help to better determine the future financial performance of companies (Wikipedia). ESG is growing [...]

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