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As digital transformation advances in the investment industry, demand for data to power investment processes continues to intensify at a rapid pace.

Access our data to help you unearth interesting research and articles as well as highlight trends emerging around unstructured and alternative data. Identify previously unconsidered datasets to add to your research and models.

Our research is based on Refinitiv content sets which power the investment processes at many of the world’s most sophisticated hedge funds and asset management firms.

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Blogs

Alibaba and the Chinese crackdowns

Has the time come to be greedy regarding Alibaba Group? Charlie Munger believes this is the case. His company, The Daily Journal, started a position in the first quarter of 2021, acquiring 165,320 shares of Alibaba worth around $37M. How could a turn in sentiment initiate bullish momentum for Alibaba share price?

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Breaking ESG controversies online

With the emergence of vociferous and watchful online communities, stocks have become more sensitive to environmental, social and governance (ESG) controversies breaking online.
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5 min

A roadmap to sustainable open identifier schemes

Open identifiers are key to capital markets’ data infrastructure and are growing in number and strength as the industry acknowledges their potential value. A report by Refinitiv and the Open Data Institute (ODI) notes that to be sustainable in the long term, identifier schemes must balance openness and independence with financial viability. This, it says, is no mean feat.
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7 min

Identifying accounting controversies to enhance portfolio risk management

With the rise of meme stocks and online investment mobs, long-time professionals are looking for advantages in the changed market dynamics. How can media analysis of accounting controversies help them to manage portfolio risk?
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5 min
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Videos

What is alternative data?

Roger Hirst is joined by various guests to discuss what alternative data is and how it is being used in the financial industry and more broadly today.

How to integrate ESG in quantitative strategies: your 2021 roadmap

How can you use ESG data to fuel your quantitative research? There are ways to break through the noise and design alpha-generating strategies - despite the ever-changing ESG data methodologies. 

Python Quants Tutorial 1 - Getting Started on Windows

Kicking off with the basics, we focus on getting started with Windows OS and cover installation, configuration and first steps.

Exploring 4 ESG Trends Accelerated By The Pandemic

What are the 4 key trends that were accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis? Tune into our interview with Guillaume Mascotto, Vice President, Head of ESG & Investment Stewardship at American Century Investments, to find out.

Reports

The Performance of Refinitiv StarMine Credit Risk Models

We present an update on the performance of StarMine’s suite of credit risk models

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Sustainable stewardship of open identifiers

We assess recent trends in relation to open identifiers, governance considerations and investment required to create, assess, use and share sustainable identifiers.

Can probability of default predict the direction of the credit default swap rate?

We investigate the one-month forward credit default swap (CDS) rate change as a function of the trailing one-month probability of default change.

Does board centrality predict future financial performance?

We investigate whether corporations with board members that are simultaneously on several corporate boards perform better than corporations whose board members aren't as well-connected.

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