Analytics-powered enterprise-level data management for quantitative hedge fund

  • 13

    years of partnership

  • 80%

    reduction in data-quality issues and alerts

  • 1,000+

    data sets managed across teams


CLIENT CHALLENGES

  • The client – a USD10bn US-based quantitative hedge fund – mainly sought to enhance data ingestion and data quality controls by leveraging data engineering.
  • Tasks included:
    • Onboarding new data sets
    • Cleansing, normalising, and standardising increasingly large amounts of data to maintain an efficient edge
    • Operational support for productivity gains and revenue-related risk mitigation

OUR APPROACH

  • Acuity Knowledge Partners assisted the client with staff augmentation, primarily focusing on data engineering to manage new/existing data pipelines and conduct back-testing/analysis.
  • The team supported trading-related operations such as reconciliation and analysis affecting profit and loss, adjustments and corporate action (processing and research).
  • Support activity also covered web scraping, vendor data sets, ingestion, standardisation, normalisation, testing, database, and alphas or output.

IMPACT DELIVERED

  • Access to well-integrated specialist team with a mix of domain expertise and technical skills to support scalability​
  • Efficient data management and enhanced data quality​ to mitigate risks related to revenue/cost
  • Effective change management and vendor communication ​by monitoring patterns
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