Buy-side data hiring shifts from procurement to strategy roles
The headline alone signals a structural shift worth watching: hedge funds and market makers are reportedly moving beyond simple data…
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Alt Data
Alt Data’s Mainstreaming Act: Fund Managers Finally Adapt
Funds Europe flags what desks have felt anecdotally for a while: alternative data is shifting from edge-case signal to standard-issue…
GSAM Pitches Data-Driven Models for Alpha in Inefficient Markets
Goldman's asset management arm is making the case that inefficient corners of the market—where information asymmetries persist—are exactly where data-powered…
Alt-Data Appetite Hits New Highs as Funds Chase Every Edge
Business Insider's framing confirms what sourcing desks already feel in their inbox volume: the obscure-data arms race isn't cooling, it's…
TEJ Pitches Structured Earnings-Call Transcripts as Alpha Source
TEJ used the Neudata Hong Kong summit to position its transcript-derived datasets as a differentiated signal source, betting that buy-side…
Hedge Funds Eye 2025 Budget Boom for Alt-Data Spend
Signal here is less about the number and more about timing: allocators loosening data budgets in 2025 means sourcing teams…
Deloitte Maps the Alt-Data Pipeline: Discovery to Integration
Deloitte's framing here is the one every sourcing analyst recognizes: alt-data's hardest problems aren't discovery, they're what happens after the…
Lowenstein Sandler: AI Demand Keeps Alt-Data Market Expanding
Lowenstein Sandler's latest alternative data report reads like the compliance memo every data licensing desk has been waiting for: AI…
War-Zone Alpha: Funds Lean on Satellites, Tankers, Polymarket
Geopolitical shocks are pushing quant and macro funds further into the alt-data stack — satellite imagery for troop and infrastructure…
BlackRock Systematic’s AI/Alt-Data Playbook Gets a Rare Public Airing
Wealth Management flags a look inside BlackRock Systematic's use of AI and alternative data, though the piece itself offers little…