Braxton Mckee, CEO of Ufora - a data consulting and technology company - explained what signs indicate that a hedge fund is taking Big Data seriously.
Baidu Inc. started using its own data in order to gauge China's economy. The goal is to construct better indicators compared to the ones using the official government figures.
Gene Ekster, CFA is Eagle Alpha’s advisory board member who works with asset management firms and data providers in a consulting capacity to help integrate alternative data into the investment process.
Eagle Alpha has spent over 2 years perfecting proprietary indices using a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) approach.
Jeff Shen, co-chief investment officer of BlackRock’s Scientific highlighted the importance of unusual sources such as satellite imagery, Q&A transcripts, online search and social media.
Tonia Ouellette Klausner, a partner with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, and a member of their Internet Law and Strategy Group, explained how buyside firms are using web crawling software and how legal risks could be mitigated.
German fund manager, Catana Capital, decided to launch a hedge fund solely based on Big Data analysis. The idea is to process massive datasets using artificial intelligence algorithms and make investment decisions according to independent signals. Catana Capital is pursuing a four-step strategy.
Eagle Alpha gathers alternative data sources to analyse the Auto Industry in different ways, some details are described in our case study.
Daniel Goldberg is Eagle Alpha’s advisory board member who ran TangentDS – a company which turned email receipts into actionable insights. Prior to this, Mr. Goldberg was an analyst at Hunter Global and Bear Stearns.
There is a wide variety of data related to the Auto Industry and not all of it is available via conventional ways.
Eagle Alpha published a white paper detailing case law regarding web crawling and emerging best practices and organized web crawling events in NYC (16 March 2016) and London (7 April 2016).
Winton Capital Management, a London-based CTA with $34.5 billion AUM, decided to open a San Francisco office in order to advance its data gathering and interpretation capabilities.
