Hedge funds and asset managers are constantly seeking Alpha, that is, an edge that enables them to beat the market. They have always looked for better information and especially for information that others don’t have. That gives Alpha. While many funds and managers turn to Increasingly complex data analytics on existing data, more and more are turning instead to alternative data. Here are some examples of alternative data sets. Social media posts: if a new product or brand ar

DISCLAIMER: SEE AT THE END OF THIS BLOG.... We've been asked about a tricky situation: when a data subject makes a request for data, but employees at our client have added personal remarks, sometimes derogatory or uncouth, to the data subjects' file. Here's how we can approach that: GDPR Article 15 states that "The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller… access to the personal data" that the controller has on that data subject. On the face of it, if a