On April 6th, we held our UNBOUND conference in midtown New York. Josh Kazdin presented the keynote for the event. Josh leads sustainability alpha research at BlackRock’s Systematic Active Equity group.
On April 6th, 2022, we held our UNBOUND conference in midtown New York. This session, led by Apptopia, kicked off with an overview of app data capabilities and the type of insights investors can get from it.
On April 6th, 2022, we held our fifth Data Hackathon (sponsored by Exabel) during our UNBOUND conference in midtown New York. The Data Hackathon is an Eagle Alpha event that brings data vendors and experienced analysts/data scientists together around a single research question.
This European-based hedge fund heavily invests in R&D and mainly hires PhDs in physics, mathematics, and economics for its research teams. The company uses an academic approach when constructing its strategies, paying close attention to potential alpha decay.
On May 17th, 2022, we were joined by Matthew Bernath, Head of Data Analytics at Rand Merchant Bank to discuss alternative data for investment banking.
On April 6th, we held our UNBOUND conference in midtown New York. This session, led by Niall Hurley, explored a consistently popular topic in the alternative data space – human capital and employment.
On April 6th, we held our UNBOUND conference in midtown New York. This session, led by Bartt Kellermann, explored one of the hottest trends in the alternative data space – crypto.
This session, led by TripleBlind, started with a discussion exploring the development of approaches, feelings, and regulatory pressures on data privacy. The panel also discussed solutions and technologies used to approach data privacy issues.
A ground-breaking court case related to web scraped data reached a conclusion. The U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals affirmed its original decision in hiQ Labs vs. LinkedIn and ruled that web crawling is legal.
Eagle Alpha rounds up some of the most relevant legal and compliance articles surrounding the alternative data space over the past month.
In our May 2022 legal workshop, we were joined by our partners from Schulte, Roth & Zabel – Ben Kozinn, Jessica Margolies, and Kelly Koscuiszka – to discuss SEC’s recent EXAM risk alert published on April 26th, 2022.
Employment data has continued to see significant interest on the Eagle Alpha data discovery platform. It has been the 4th most popular category over the past 12 months, seeing a 40% YoY increase in the number of employment datasets onboarded.
