- You don’t need to be an active investor for financials to matter
- But an over-reliance on financial data can act as a set of blinkers
- alternative data can take various forms
More than most publications, the Investors’ Chronicle cares (and writes) a great deal about the numbers. Without price data, financial figures, valuation metrics and forecasts, the job of weighing up the average investment case, or digesting a half-year report, would be considerably harder.
Our stock screens take this even further. By filtering entire markets through a quantitative lens, we try to turn combinations of certain numbers and measures into investment advantage.