Eagle Alpha hosted events in NYC (April 26th) and London (July 26th) to discuss the legal considerations of alternative data which were attended by more than 170 people in total.
Clifton Global, an international executive search firm specializing in the placement of quants and big/alternative data executives, published the attached report that examines hiring trends for alternative data focused asset managers.
Negative growth in active job listings and Google search data were used to correctly call worsening momentum for Chipotle.
Heidrick & Struggles is a global executive search firm founded in 1953 in Chicago, Illinois. The company recently published a paper (attached) titled “Building a Quantamental Investing Team”
Socialgist aggregates, organizes, and provides managed access to the rich social media data with their enterprise-level APIs and streaming services. We arranged this interview with Socialgist Managing Partner Mike Madarasz to better understand how the company works with social media data.
We arranged this interview with a provider of in-store and street-level location data to learn more about potential applications.
Earlier this week, Goldman Sachs announced that Bridgewater’s senior manager Jeff Wecker is joining them as Chief Data Officer. His role will be across all of GS, including GSAM.
We arranged this interview with a provider of email receipt data to learn more about potential applications. The data is gathered from aggregated purchase receipts extracted from the US-based panel of email and assistant mobile app users’ mailboxes.
Trade nowcasting indicators provide valuable insights into international trade and industrial production.
Over the last 2 weeks Eagle Alpha has presented at 7 alternative data events worldwide. The events were in London (Citi and Accenture/Investit events), Charleston (Citi equity derivatives conference), Hong Kong (BoA and Factset events) and Singapore (Factset and Quantcon).
Cross-sectional analysis of our partner dataset, performed by J.P. Morgan, generated annualized returns of 16.2% and a Sharpe ratio of 1.13.
