In this article, we document a timeline of mergers and acquisitions in the alternative data industry over the years and present exclusive commentary from industry leaders.
For many private equity funds, vital push factors are driving the move to alternative data. Historically, low-interest rates pushed more investors to consider private equity a viable investment. However, this area's institutional and pension fund allocation has also been a driver for ESG reporting.
Edition 2 of this web scraped data paper considers rapidly developing changes across the alternative data landscape in the later part of 2021 and the first half of 2022.
On June 2nd, 2022, we hosted a focused 1-hour webinar to update funds and investors on the latest data and use cases relating to alternative data for macro applications.
Access to accurate and timely information is the lifeblood of the insurance industry, and alternative sources of data can contribute to success on a range of fronts including underwriting, risk mitigation, and claims management.
On April 6th, we held our UNBOUND conference in midtown New York. This session, led by Niall Hurley, explored a consistently popular topic in the alternative data space – human capital and employment.
Employment data has continued to see significant interest on the Eagle Alpha data discovery platform. It has been the 4th most popular category over the past 12 months, seeing a 40% YoY increase in the number of employment datasets onboarded.
On March 15, 2022, we hosted a webinar alongside Gerald Garvey, Head of Sustainability Research at BlackRock, and Adam Gustafsson, a Quantitative Researcher at UBS.
On our September Alpha Workshop, we were joined by expert speakers from System2, Alternative Macro Signals, and Revelio Labs to discuss the unique insights alternative data can provide into the inflation debate, particularly employment data and online news sources.
On Thursday, April 15th, 2021 we held a workshop deep-dive following the success of our February Hackathon event in February where teams of data hackers competed against each other using a mix of datasets provided by Eagle Alpha data partners.
This case study deck outlines alternative datasets that can be used by investors to monitor the technology hardware and equipment markets.
In this paper Jianming Sun, Data Sourcing & Partnerships for Eagle Alpha outlines the most popular datasets for China. The datasets that are explored are listed below.
