Dear Friends and Colleagues Markets are non-linear. We have seen dramatic examples of this in Q2: the turn in China...
Jens Nordvig
Letter (Q1 2023): Big Macro Shocks Keep Coming…
Dear friends and colleagues, It has been a crazy busy time. A continued stream of macro shocks has hit global...
Exante Data’s Chris Marsh Referenced Extensively by Martin Wolf in the Financial Times
Here is the link to Martin Wolf’s piece: Lessons from the Great Reflation, which draws extensively on the substack we...
Eighth Annual Letter: The Future of Research and Investing in 2023
What is the same? Back in 2016, in our inaugural Exante Data letter, we discussed the future of research (link)....
Letter: Asset Management vs Asset Ownership
Dear Friends and Colleagues, We have transitioned from a stimulative policy regime that boosted asset values (and...
Profile Interview in Barron’s with Focus on the Dollar
“Why the Dollar Could Be on Its Way to a Record Year”...
Exante Data Spins Out MarketReader FinTech Venture
The vision of Exante Data has always been to use alternative data and a differentiated human strategy approach to help...
6th Annual Letter: Democratizing Research
Dear Friends and Colleagues, How the future looked in 2016… When I founded Exante Data in 2016, I wrote about the...
Tech Executives Novoselsky, Primdahl, and Schaary join Advisory Board to Accelerate Exante Data’s Expansion
Dear Friends and Colleagues When we founded Exante Data back in 2016, our mission was to deliver superior markets...
Letter: The Reverse Cliff Effect for Vaccine Supply Will Allow Global Reopening
Dear Friends and Colleagues, We want to communicate with the public, and stay in touch with all our contacts around...
5th Annual Letter: After a challenging year…
Exante Data is 5 years old today. It has been an incredible ride, and 2020 was frankly the most challenging year on...
4th Annual Letter: Moss & Fintech
Dear Friends and Colleagues, The year gone was a very eventful one for Exante Data Inc. On the people front, we added...
Launching Our New Blog/Substack: Money Inside and Out
Freedom of expression is a wonderful thing. I felt that when I founded Exante Data in 2016, after working for years...
Fixed income is dead, long live FX (Part II): A New Regime With Different Risk Characteristics
In early August we declared that ‘Fixed Income is Dead, Long Live FX’. Over the past month, this view has become...
Fixed Income is Dead, Long Live FX
In 2019, fixed income was king. Many macro funds turned to rates RV and duration trading, and many went as far as...
Amelia Bourdeau and Tor Vollalokken joins Exante Data
Dear Friends and Colleagues, We are pleased to announced two senior additions to the Exante Data team, which will help...
Open Letter to the ‘Frugal Four’: What kind of Europe do you want in the decades ahead?
By Jens Nordvig, Founder and CEO of Exante Data Inc. Europe is facing an unprecedented shock from the coronavirus, and...
What I Learnt From Managing Teams Remotely (During 8 Weeks of COVID Lockdown)
A couple of points about what I learnt about managing teams while working remote with the crew at Exante Data since...
On Optimal Social Distancing – How Long Must We Do This?
This letter draws on research previously published for Exante Data clients. It is meant to reach a broader audience as...
Letter: On the edge of public service
Since its founding in 2016, Exante Data has been focussed on serving the world’s most sophisticated investors. But...
Exante’s COVID analysis featured in WIRED
We normally get quoted in the financial press (Bloomberg, WSJ, Reuters, CNBC, FT etc). But our use of alternative data...
Letter – COVID: In A Time of Macro Crisis: We Would Like to Thank our Clients
It has been an extraordinary past month in global financial markets, and for Exante Data as well. We are writing today...
A Primer On Real-Time China Activity Indicators
Since the shock from the coronavirus hit China, we have been tracking real time activity indicators. Our basic...
Ankit Sahni and Alex Etra Announcements
Exante Data Inc. today announces that Mr Ankit Sahni is joining Element Capital Management, as Director within...
Announcing our new CTA flow prediction models + Application to UST yields spike this week
Dear Friends and Colleagues, We are constantly adding new data and product lines to our service. Today, we are...
Exante / Simon Potter Event in NYC
Yesterday, we hosted a client event with Simon Potter in Mid-Town. We would like to thank Simon for agreeing to...
Announcement: Grant Wilson Joins Exante Data as Head of Asia Pacific
Dear Friends and Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that Grant Wilson has joined Exante Data as Head of Asia...
Announcement: Brad Setser Joins Exante Data As Senior Advisor
Dear Friends and Colleagues, We are very happy to announce that Brad Setser has joined Exante Data as a Senior...
2nd Capital Flow Round-table Insights & Observations
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Last week, we hosted our second Capital Flow Round-table at the Harvard Club in NY, to...
Letter: 3rd-Year Anniversary: It is Fun to Grow
New York, September 4, 2018 Dear Friends and Colleagues, Exante Data LLC was founded 3 years ago, in a ‘broom...
Letter: Raw Data And The Human Touch
Dear Friends and Colleagues, The holistic angle to capital flow analysis is a cornerstone of our approach at Exante...
Letter: Trumps Socialism
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Socialism means something different in different countries and at different times. In...
Letter: Simplexity In Research
New York, May 3, 2018 Dear Friends and Colleagues, Last year, I was on a conference call with an old contact who...
Letter: An Expensive Penny
March 8, 2018 Dear Friends and Colleagues, US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was on TV over the weekend. He was...
2-Year Anniversary Letter: Out Of The Broom Closet
New York, January 5, 2018 Dear Friends and Colleagues, Anniversaries are a good a time for reflection, as well as...
Letter: NAFTA Blowup Risk (interview with Wouter Jongbloed)
New York, November 6, 2017 Dear Friends and Colleagues, We are excited to announce that Wouter Jongbloed will be...
Letter: Poking The Crypto Hornet’s Nest
New York, September 22, 2017 Dear Friends and Colleagues, A month ago, I suggested to Web Begole, who manages...
Letter: Are Technicals The New Fundamentals?
There is a big debate happening about the changing structure of markets. The role of passive investors and the...
Letter: Flow Philosophy and The Euro
Let me start with an anecdote from many years ago. Back in 2008, I was a speaker on a panel at the Milken conference...
Letter: Populism And Data Science
The French presidential election on 23 April is going to be a nail-biter. It is already captivating the media and...
Letter: Europe’s Haunted House
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Evil spirits have again laid siege to the European continent. Based on the economic...
Letter: Launching: China Flow Analytics
The mission of Exante Data™ is to provide better answers to key macro questions through superior data and analytics....
Letter: The Times They Are A-Changin
Dear Friends and Colleagues, We have gotten used to certain questions having simple answers. But times are changing. A...
Letter: China: Cracks Under The Surface
Dear Friends and Colleagues, I will start this Letter with three paragraphs on China, and then turn to a quick update...
Letter: Cognac & Redbull and Other Strange Cocktails
Dear Friends and Colleagues, It has been another busy week. Key central banks had important meetings, and at least...
Letter: Blurred Times
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Exante Advisors and Exante Data are both six months old today. It has been an incredible...
Special Letter: Europe’s Achilles Heel
Dear Friends and Colleagues, This newsletter was supposed to be about the progress we are making in terms of building...
Inaugural Letter: The Future Of Research
Dear Friends and Colleagues, This is the inaugural Exante Data newsletter (I left my position as head of research at...