News Timeline was developed by a team of 4 members to help forming insight in the hedge fund industry. I was part of the project during my studies at the London School of Economcis.

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2. Funds Need Information
“Know what you own, and know why
you own it.” – Peter Lynch
“Risk comes from not knowing what
you’re doing.” – Warren Buffet
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3. What They Use
Primary data sources Aggregation
Research Companies Automated Analysis
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4. The Pain of Research
£10 billion80%
of
available data &
information
every week per
analyst on
research
1 day
on earnings
every year
Hedge Funds research too inefficiently! They…
waste… can’t capture… lose…
…despite spending £1bn pa. worldwide on research
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Sources:
- Basex. 2009. Intel’s War on Information Overload: A Case Study.
- Citi Prime Finance. 2012. 2012 Hedge Fund Business Expense Survey: Industry-Wide Benchmarks for Managing a Hedge Fund
Organization.
- Deloitte. 2011. The economic impact of the ‘Information Glut’. Hitachi Data Systems.

5. Our Solution
1. Collecting
2. Organising
3. Contextualising
Faster research through automated
consolidation of information by…
…Data in the form of:
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6. The Advantage!
In 3 hours, you…
...research
...analyse
Current Methods With Us
120 min 20 min
60 min 160 min
Less research. More analysis.
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7. Time
Insight
News Timeline
Business Intelligence
Search Engines / Databases
Market Research
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Value
Getting More Insight!

8. Market Potential
£1bn
£200m
Hedge Funds’ annual research expenditure
In the UK Worldwide
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Sources:
- Citi Prime Finance. 2012. 2012 Hedge Fund Business Expense Survey: Industry-Wide Benchmarks for Managing a Hedge Fund
Organization.
- TheCityUK. 2014. Key Facts About UK Financial And Related Professional Services.

9. The Product
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBeIhtZLTWwVideo:
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10. Technical Process
1. Retrieve unstructured data and store it in our database
2. Automatically organise data into clusters based on textual analysis
3. Display the information on any search topic in the form of
automatically curated news timelines
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11. Key Differentiation
1. Data Hunt 2. Assembly 3. Analysis 4. Form insight £
Decision Process:
- Currently +60% of time is spent manually hunting and
assembling data
- But, value is really generated at the analysis stage
- That’s why we bring focus to analysis quicker
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12. Product Shot
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