Hedge funds’ secret sauce is obscure data like satellite images. Here’s how the people in charge of spending millions on this data find the stuff worth buying.

BattleFin's Discovery Day packed 1,000 people from hedge funds and alternative-data companies into a pair of ballrooms at the Plaza hotel last week.

June 27, 2019   |   View Online »

Hedge funds' secret sauce is obscure data like satellite images. Here's how the people in charge of spending millions on this data find the stuff worth buying. Bradley Saacks | BattleFin's Discovery Day packed 1,000 people from hedge funds and alternative-data companies into a pair of ballrooms at the Plaza hotel last week. Read More »

Citi's AI-powered tool for catching suspicious payments and thwarting cyber crime is opening up to customers across the world Alex Morrell | The tool, first piloted in late 2017, helps protect the $4 trillion in payments the bank processes each day for thousands of multinationals globally. Read More »

'Wizard of Oz' Greg Coffey's new fund is up nearly 7% so far this year as he stages a comeback Bradley Saacks | Greg Coffey's Kirkoswald Capital, which launched last year in London, beat comparable hedge-fund benchmarks over the period. Read More »

Billionaire investor Howard Marks explains why the Fed's recent behavior is delaying an inevitable recession — and ensuring the next one will be even worse Christopher Competiello | Howard Marks reveals his philosophy behind excessive central-bank stimulation and why he thinks we're 'closer to the end' of the US economic recovery. Read More »

A Wall Street quant guru outlines the 11 trades an investor needs to build the perfect portfolio Christopher Competiello | Bernstein makes a compelling case for the perfect portfolio holdings amidst heightened market volatility. Read More »

This Amazon exec helped Alexa work with 60,000 devices, but says he only really understood its power when his kid came home from school Julie Bort | Daniel Rausch runs Alexa's smart home team which has helped put Alexa on everything from bikes to microwaves. But his big aha moment came from home. Read More »

This 26-year-old stared down financial ruin to raise $340 million for his delivery app that's now beating Uber and Deliveroo in huge markets Charlie Wood | Oscar Pierre is the cofounder and CEO of Glovo, a Barcelona, Spain-based delivery app with a presence in 178 cities across 23 countries. Read More »

A former Google exec reveals the 3 questions you should ask yourself before making a career change Shana Lebowitz,Sherin Shibu | Making a career change can be intimidating. Gusto COO and former Google exec Lexi Reese uses the same simple approach every time she switches jobs. Read More »

The Pentagon stands by its decision to reject Oracle's bid for the $10 billion JEDI cloud contract: It's 'not in the same class' as Microsoft and Amazon Benjamin Pimentel | Pentagon again rejected Oracle's bid for the $10 billion JEDI cloud project, and accused the database giant of making misleading claims. Read More »

Here's what Amazon's, Microsoft's, and Google's clouds are each best at, according to a survey of 452 IT professionals Rosalie Chan | Spiceworks surveyed 452 businesses. Here's what they had to say about what Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud are the best at. Read More »

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