Eco Mission

Eco Mission

Our mission

At Infopro Digital we are committed to taking a sustainable approach to our end to end event management. We will strive to put sustainability at the forefront of everything we do.  

Providing the best experience for our customers whilst maintaining a positive impact on others as well as our environment. 

Our main objective in 2020 is to cease onsite printing at our events.  To reduce the amount of printed branding materials and reuse as much as we can. We will select seasonal and local produce for catering where possible to reduce our carbon footprint. We pledge a zero tolerance to single use plastic at all of our events. 

It’s important to be clear, though, about what the data shows – and what it doesn’t. The filings are required every month for all mutual funds regulated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission – about 20,000, in total – but the data is only released publicly 60 days after the end of each quarter.

The filings collects basic information about each trade that is on the books of each fund at the reporting date. Trades that start and end between these dates will not show up in the public record – and trades with a longer lifespan will be captured repeatedly, when adding up the figures for multiple quarters.

So, the quarterly snapshots don’t capture all trades within that quarter; and adding up the quarterly figures means grossing up some of the same trades.

We think the best way to use the data is as a gauge of quarterly activity, and to look at each quarter as part of a time-series, revealing trends, patterns and anomalies. Summing the quarters gives an all-in measure of the biggest managers and dealers, but with double- or triple-counting of some trades.

There are other things to be wary of. Although the filings we take the data from contain the same set of fields, funds do not always interpret them in quite the same way. As one example, they do not all use the same conventions when identifying the dealer counterparty – in the case of at least one manager, prime brokers are listed as the counterparty instead of the executing broker. Flaws of this kind mean a small proportion of trades cannot be tied to a specific dealer. The trades have still been included in the dataset, grouping them with the ‘counterparty not specified’ label. (Other decisions we make when collecting and cleaning the data are described in the more detailed Methodology document).