Wellington Management uses AI-powered alternative data dashboards that give approximately 200 members of its investment teams access to non-traditional data sets — such as credit card spending and job opening figures — to help anticipate company growth trends and consumer patterns.

Wellington has publicly described a system in which roughly 200 investment team members use dashboards built on alternative data (e.g., credit card transactions, job postings) to help anticipate company growth, hiring trends, consumer behavior, and product changes. This supports the idea-generation phase of the investment process. The firm's Investment Science Group, which has grown to more than 68 specialists, oversees these data science capabilities alongside 100+ portfolio managers who have been trained to code in Python to analyze data and implement machine learning algorithms.