Earlier this year, both Citi and J.P. Morgan published reports on asset managers innovating their investment processes with alternative data sources.
hiQ Labs is a tech startup that collects public LinkedIn profiles and sells analytics to companies wishing to improve management of their workforces (e.g. reduce turnover, increase organizational agility).
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), to be implemented on May 25th 2018, is designed to ensure and strengthen data protection procedures for individuals within the EU.
Eagle Alpha analysts have spent over three years finding the best way to use online search data to predict economic indicators. Eagle Alpha has devised its own proprietary methodology that leverages all relevant academic research, as well as accepted best practices in the field.
Crawled data is one of the most widely used categories of alternative data. It is relatively inexpensive to collect and can often provide a strong signal for consumer related companies.
Eagle Alpha analysts have spent over three years finding the best way to use online search data to predict economic indicators. Eagle Alpha has devised its own proprietary methodology that leverages all relevant academic research, as well as accepted best practices in the field.
Google Trends is a public web facility based on Google Search that shows how often a particular search term is entered relative to the total search volume over time across various regions of the world.
On March 23rd 2017, Eagle Alpha published a research note analyzing the launch of Ubisoft’s (UBI:FP) flagship game for the quarter, Ghost Recon Wildlands. The game significantly underperformed against last year’s major launch, the Division, on key online metrics.
Asset managers constantly ask Eagle Alpha for case studies that demonstrate how alternative data can add value to their investment process. In response to this demand Eagle Alpha will regularly publish a compilation of case studies. This document is the first in this series.
Asset managers have been integrating alternative datasets in their processes but they should be highly attentive and avoid sources that contain personally identifiable information (PII).
Eagle Alpha Web Queries is a query based tool that enables clients to obtain analytics on over 90 million web sources including: blogs, image and video sites, forums, review sites, social media and news sites. It is especially useful when analyzing consumer reactions to new releases.
CRISIL, majority-owned by S&P, prepared a report (attached) analyzing the state of big data adoption in the asset management industry. CRISIL surveyed asset managers finding that in 2017 over 80% of their respondents were planning to increase investments in big data (figure 1).
