Understanding active investing tools and technology
Expert Hub contributor Evan Schnidman published an article in IR Magazine discussing how the use of AI and NLP is not only not ubiquitous, but also not uniform across active investors.
Expert Hub contributor Evan Schnidman published an article in IR Magazine discussing how the use of AI and NLP is not only not ubiquitous, but also not uniform across active investors.
Alternative data vendors often do not understand the nuances of the fund management industry and the need of the buyside to have datasets mapped to some identifier, symbol or ticker.
As part of our 2020 virtual conference, Tim Baker, Head of IEX Cloud provided a keynote on the imperative of ticker mapping.
Two sessions from our 2020 virtual conference: Is Alternative Data Changing How Private Equity & Venture Capital Approach Deal Origination & Due Diligence and How Innovative Firms Leverage Data Lakes in Private Equity.
The following is a synopsis of one of the presentations at Eagle Alpha’s ESG roundtable on 20th August 2020. The accompanying deck can be found on the right.
Stephen discussed the creation of a separate mutual ecosystem and how signals, creating actionable intelligence can be used for the benefit of the data owners and the related set of needs within a system.
We summarized expert responses to the question: "Is AWS the best cloud solution for working with alternative data, or are Azure and GCP viable alternatives?”
In increasingly efficient markets, the challenge for investment professionals to generate value beyond commoditized smart beta factors has intensified. This has put a spotlight on creating alternative datasets from big data and extracting value not already reflected in the market.
We discussed some of the ways we can speed up code in Python like Numba or Cython. However, it is important to note that it often requires time to rewrite the code to maximise the speed up.
In this interview with Athan Mavrantonis, Senior Data Analyst at Eagle Alpha, we discussed alternative data visualization tools and challenges.
Daniel McCarthy, Professor of Marketing at Emory University and Founder of Theta Equity Partners, delivered the presentation on practical applications of the CBCV model.
In this interview with Professor Derek Greene from UCD we discussed machine learning trends relevant for the asset management industry.