Once the head of fixed-income research at Nomura, where he was also a top currency strategist, Jens Nordvig, 46, left the Japanese bank to found Exante Data in 2016. As its name suggests, Exante uses data sources—many untraditional—to help forecast economic and financial conditions. It was this focus on data that helped the firm see just how big a problem Covid-19 would be—and how to navigate it. Read here.