Venn’s Top Five Favorites of 2022

As 2022 comes to a close, we hope that this note finds you well and you are beginning to wind down from another busy year. Global macro events, market volatility, and inflation were top of mind for all our clients this year. At Venn by Two Sigma, we were fortunate to continue investing in our platform, grow the Venn team, and deepen relationships with our community. While there were many milestones, here are five things that excited us the most in 2022:

2022 was filled with quantitative platform enhancements based on insightful feedback from our clients, including:

• Forecasting enhancements: select and adjust custom periods to use when calculating the factor exposures, which are a key part of forecasts. 
• Private asset enhancements: you can now select any custom public proxy when interpolating illiquid, quarterly return streams on Venn.
• Lots of new, essential metrics: autocorrelation, rolling autocorrelation, downside correlation, rolling correlations, rolling beta to benchmark, and batting average. 
• Residual attribution for portfolios: get insight into what is driving the idiosyncratic risk and return in your portfolio.

One of the most commonly requested workflows we kept hearing from clients was output customization and reporting. This year, we: 

• Released Report Lab (for select clients). Report Lab is a new workspace that empowers users to create customized reports for internal and external presentations. With it, we also released the Document Archive, which stores all final exports from Report Lab. Building proposals and slide decks has never been more streamlined on Venn.
• A new permissions-based framework allows certain users to only access and edit select parts of the platform. For our wealth clients, this means that advisors may only need to have access to client reporting while investment researchers may need more detailed access to the forecasting frameworks on Venn.
• Throughout the year, we also held a limited beta test of Studio, which empowers users with more flexible and customizable on-screen analysis. Look out for continued investment in this area. 

• Our partnership with eVestment went live early in 2022, giving clients a new source for investment manager data spanning public and private markets. 
• Our strategic alliance with Coin Metrics, a leading institutional crypto financial intelligence provider, brought digital assets return data to Venn.  
• To get the most out of these new data sets, be sure to check out our recently released advanced search and filtering capabilities within our Data Library. This new functionality  helps to both better track existing investments and source new investment ideas. 

• We launched a Monthly Digital Asset Digest to give insights into the state of capital allocation in crypto.
• Our new Pillar Series dove into Venn’s four factor principles: Holistic, Parsimonious, Orthogonal, Actionable.

Last but not least, we were thrilled to meet many of you in person, some for the first time. We also continued finding opportunities for virtual events that strengthened the Venn community. Highlights included: 

• We covered several timely topics on webinars this year, including: navigating market volatility with Addepar, discussing how asset allocators can evaluate crypto with Coinbase, examining hedge fund market trends with HFRI, a discussion on risk with eVestment and, as always, our ongoing live demo series.
• In October, we welcomed clients, partners, and prospects into our offices as we hosted our first ever in-person Venn social event.
• In November, we officially launched our Client Advisory Board, consisting of a group of engaged clients who will regularly meet with Venn leadership to share insights and feedback.

Looking ahead, we are excited to continue innovating, especially in the areas of reporting, private investments capabilities and functionality to support our growing wealth management client base.  Also be on the lookout for even more opportunities to connect with us live or virtually.

We hope you have a safe, restful and happy holiday season, and best wishes for the new year!

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