Institutional Investor (May 17)
“Having witnessed the Cambridge Analytica-Facebook disaster…. Asset managers are getting behind a new set of voluntary best practices in using data that includes personally identifiable information, or PII.” This January, the Investment Data Standards Organization was launched with members including “data vendors and users, such as hedge funds. It has published a set of standards that it views as a work-in-progress, meant to govern and adapt to the fund industry’s early and exploding use of alternative data.”
Tags: Asset managers, Best practices, Cambridge Analytica, Data vendors, Disaster, Facebook, Hedge funds, Investment Data Standards Organization, Personally identifiable information
Inc. (May Issue)
“Building a company to last and building a company to sell are the same thing.” Young entrepreneurs shouldn’t “be seduced by shortcuts” and they should “implement best practices.” In short, “you should build it as if you were going to have it forever and yet, at the same time, build it so that you could sell it tomorrow for as much money as possible, even if you don’t intend to.”
Tags: Best practices, Company, Entrepreneurs, Forever, Money, Sell, Shortcuts