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Predicting Chinese Auto Revenues using Alternative Data
In this report, we demonstrate the value of Eagle Alpha’s China Auto Insight (CAI) dataset in analyzing the Chinese auto industry.
PSD2: Increase in Availability of European Consumer Data
PSD2 – Revised Payment Services Directive – is soon to cause a disruption to Europe’s financial system.
A Guide to Structured Web Data
The attached white paper was prepared by Webhose.io, a company providing access to structured web data. This paper gives an overview of technological issues associated with extracting web data from various and fragmented sources.
NN IP Benefits from Sentiment Analysis
NN Investment Partners, asset management division of NN Group N.V. with AUM of approximately $224 billion as of September 2016, pointed out the gains it achieved by using online news and sentiment analysis in its investment process.
Quantamental Investing
Gurraj Singh Sangha, quant trader and data scientist, prepared the below presentation in order to explain recent trends in quantamental investing.
Lululemon Q3 Earnings: Eagle Alpha Signal Proves Correct
On 22 Nov 2016, Eagle Alpha published a note on Lululemon highlighting the following potential implications: “Lululemon has seen same-store sales (SSS) growth decelerate since the beginning of 2016, and Q2 numbers particularly disappointed.
Google Trends Anticipated a Shortfall in Finish Line SSS
On 5 Dec 2016, we published a note on Finish Line using Google Trends data. The figure below shows that our trends signal pointed to a strong uptrend prior to the August 2016 quarter when the company reported better than expected results.
Satellite Data Used to Analyze Retailers and Restaurant Chains
Satellite data company provides investors with actionable insights on year-over-year traffic trends based on proprietary quantitative analysis of satellite data, retail parking lot imagery, store locations, and climate data.
Estimating iPhone Sales Using Trade Data
In this note we highlight a use-case for estimating iPhone sales using data from our trade data partner. Please see below for further use cases of the data.
Third Point Hires WorldQuant’s Data Scientist to Support Its Quantamental Strategies
Dan Loeb, founder of $17 billion AUM Third Point LLC, plans to employ quantamental strategies. His idea is to use “data to support our existing fundamental strategies.”
Hedge Fund’s AI System Built by Anonymous Data Scientists
Numerai is a San Francisco-based hedge fund run by the 29-year old former quant trader Richard Craib. Its strategy, however, is quite different from what other asset managers employ: