In this workshop, we were delighted to be joined by employment data experts exploring use cases and trends including the relationship between employee turnover and firm performance, the rise of the chief sustainability officer, and employee perception analysis of DE&I in the Fortune 100.
As part of this panel on our September virtual conference we held a deep data-driven discussion around the key developments of the COVID-19 vaccine race.
Alternative data and analysis from Measurable AI highlighted that Food Panda was growing strongly and gaining share across the markets in Asia that it operates. When Delivery Hero reported 1H results the company pointed to rapid growth and share gains.
Buy-in from the top is essential but everyone in the investment process from engineers to data scientists, PMs and analysts all need to be on board, or risk failure.
The following is a synopsis of one of the presentations at Eagle Alpha’s ESG roundtable on 20th August 2020. Derryck Coleman, Director of Research Analytics at Audit Analytics discussed the consequences of the WireCard collapse.
Riyaz Nakhooda, VP of Strategic Partnerships at Accern, discussed how Artificial Intelligence can be applied to ethically driven investing.
Managers need to build out the capabilities, personnel and legal departments to address the ESG market. But funds should do it anyway as there is alpha potential in ESG investing. ESG outperforms so why not do it. Put the effort in it will pay off in performance and alpha.
We discussed the corporate announcements from BP, Amazon and Microsoft on their de-carbonization strategies and changes in corporate strategy as a new trend.
The panel discussed the relationship between ESG scoring and credit spreads and the relationship seen in Hermes research.
Richard Excell, ex UBS trading and hedge fund manager, discussed the criteria and conditions for a bubble. Looking at ESG indices there is inconsistency in performance which means benchmark selection is a major factor.
