Financial, Insurance, and Equity Research

Get alternative web data

Combined with top-down research, alternative data can make the difference between an accurate model and a sub-par model. Import.io allows research analysts to get non-traditional web data, which is a key component to a modern and thorough bottom-up analysis.

Import.io extracts data from non-traditional sources such as industry blogs, social media sites, world news, social news aggregation sites (i.e. Reddit, ycombinator), ecommerce aggregators, and any website. Analysts get current web data quickly for up-to-the-minute analysis.

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Aggregrated News Articles

More and more investment firms are basing recommendations only on data. One huge source of data is news. By extracting headlines and article copy and using that data for predictive analysis, investment firms gain valuable insight into trends, events, and shifting views that affect companies and products they are tracking.

Gathering news articles manually is time consuming. Especially when global news in many languages is needed for predictive analysis. Import.io has developed a solution specifically for automatically extracting thousands of news articles continuously, because news is a continuous source of data.

Import.io uses machine learning to determine how to extract articles no matter the language or structure of the news site. Equity research firms use this aggregate news data to feed their own machine learning algorithms and predict investment success. Investment firms build strategies for their clients using this alternative data combined with top-down research.

Market data aggregation

Market information is freely available on the web, but spans across hundreds of websites, such as Angel List, TechCrunch, Crunchbase, corporate websites, and others. Combing through multiple websites and online databases by hand can be difficult to manage and isn’t always reliable.

Import.io can parse through the information and even find the latest updated data. This allows equity researchers to quickly pull the relevant information together to evaluate the necessary financials.

Financial statement extraction

Getting a financial statement into a usable format for analysis can be daunting, but analysts need hundreds of financial statements to compare data for clients. Import.io helps to get the data in a usable format by parsing the structure of financial data separate of associated text and descriptions.

Insurance

Insurance companies can use alternative web data to determine insurance risks on products, people, services, etc. With Import.io they can extract background data, customer sentiment, and ratings across hundreds of websites and use key words and ratings numbers to determine insurance cost and risk.

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