What a year 2020 has been! As we neared the end of the year and got ready to wrap things up, we reflected back on what we achieved together - from feedback-driven product releases to our most viewed content, this was Venn’s biggest year yet.

Year in Review: 2020
6 New Key Areas (And More!)
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Crowding Factor Joined the Crowd1
- Added a new factor that represents short exposure to stocks with a wide investment community holding of short positions
- Explains close to 6% of hedge fund risk on average
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3 New Data Integrations2
- Launched portfolio integrations with BNY, Northern Trust, and Addepar
- Integrations sync portfolio data automatically without requiring user uploads - if interested in integrations - listed above or others, please reach out!
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Factors Got Faster3
- Launched a weekly factor performance email, building off the launch of daily factor returns which are also now available every day in Venn
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Saved the day with Save + Export/Share4
- Launched Saved Analyses: 1/4 of our Pro accounts* (*Analyzers) already using Save
- New Export and Share: Sharing increased 17% since launch of our new export features
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While everyone was indoors, Venn Got Extreme (Scenarios)5
- Launched a regime based scenario analysis model allowing users to apply shocks up to 1.5x the largest observed historical negative and positive monthly performance for indices on Venn
- In some cases this allows users to apply shocks 4x as large as they previously could
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You Asked, We Delivered (HFR)6
- Onboarded the long-awaited HFR hedge fund benchmarking dataset as an add-on available to certain Pro accounts
- This was the most requested dataset over the last 3 years
Factor Performance
* Data through 11/30
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Best Performing Factor▲
- Momentum +18%
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Worst Performing Factor▼
- Value -30%
Venn Thought Leadership
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Most-Read Blog Post
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Most-Watched Webinar
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50+ Venn Publications
- 43 blog posts (through 11/30)
- 7 webinars
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3 Venn ebooks