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Equity Data Science (EDS)
Equity Data Science (EDS)
Investment process management solutions that aggregate data and digitize front-office research and risk workflows.
Essentia Analytics
Essentia Analytics
Combine trade data with behavioral science to identify patterns and biases in investment decisions.
Venn® by Two Sigma
Venn® by Two Sigma
Make data-driven decisions through next-generation analytics for asset allocators.
Extracting Value From Your Data
Historically, when asset servicers speak of data, it’s been about the mechanics: capture, validation, processing, and delivery. While those things are crucial, it’s only half the story. What you do with that data is what drives measurable business outcomes, and ultimately investment performance.
Through a network of partnerships with leading technology firms, Northern Trust’s Investment Data Science capabilities offers a curated suite of solutions – fully integrated with our asset servicing platform - that combines Northern Trust’s foundational data with both data science and behavioral analytics. The power of these tools helps institutions digitize their investment process, enabling faster and smarter investment decisions.
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Scientific, Data-Driven Solutions for Your Investment Process
Investment Data Science pairs Northern Trust’s core data and hallmark service with some of the industry’s leading technologies to offer a customizable ecosystem of cutting-edge capabilities.
Enhance your investment process with a cloud-based platform that unifies research idea generation, portfolio construction, and risk analytics. EDS connects qualitative and quantitative data in one transparent environment, helping managers execute, measure, and refine their investment approach with greater clarity and consistency.
Pair historical holdings and transaction history with behavioral science to identify the psychological factors that drive (or undermine) investment performance, and identify strengths and hidden biases that link investment decisions to outcomes.
Take our traditional ex-post risk and attribution analytics a level deeper with factor analyses, stress testing, and workflows designed to help asset allocators get to the “why” of investment performance and digitize their investment research, portfolio construction, and asset allocation practices.
C-Suite
Realize efficiency in the front office, improve transparency and collaboration, and optimize alpha generation at a far lower cost than home grown solutions.
Portfolio Managers
Digitize and streamline your full investment process across idea generation, research management, portfolio construction, and risk—enabling faster insight, better collaboration, and more consistent decision-making.
Research Analysts
Simplify research workflows and improve communication of your best ideas through a centralized, structured, and collaborative research environment.
Asset Allocators
Take traditional analytics a step further and facilitate the execution of your strategy through online collaboration and tools to enable real-time, data-driven allocation decisions.
Investment Data Science is one piece of a continuum of solutions to support your entire business. Our ecosystem of proprietary, vended, and partnered solutions helps meet the strategic, operational, and technological needs of our clients’ Whole Office.
Meet Our Expert
Paul Fahey, Head of Strategic Partnerships
As Head of Strategic Partnerships, Paul works with asset managers and allocators to better understand the investment decision process and to improve future decision making.
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The Latest Investment Data Science Insights
Discover how asset owners are prioritizing decision-ready data to improve investment decision-making, strengthen risk oversight, and unlock greater value from AI and analytics.
Northern Trust highlights how data and behavioral analytics are reshaping investment decisions—helping asset managers reduce bias, improve performance, and scale smarter strategies.
The complex, sophisticated strategies employed by hedge fund managers require a deep understanding of market dynamics, sentiment, and risk.
AI’s Evolution in Financial Services and Its Impact on the Future
Generative AI has the potential to revolutionize investment data analysis for decision making.
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Investment Data Science