How Covid-19 has driven investors to embrace new data sources

Investment managers have used data more than ever since the Covid-19 pandemic, but they continue to face difficulties assessing relevance and making sense of the data, say asset owners and fund managers.  Executives hailing from the likes of Australian pension fund Aware Super and Conning Asia Pacific said they have adopted the use of new types of data, such a real-time or non-financial data, made available during the pandemic, and combined it with old models to derive insights. …