Eagle Alpha Spotlight - Alternative Data for Healthcare
Leveraging alternative datasets, investors can identify promising healthcare startups, assess the efficacy of new therapies, and predict market shifts with greater accuracy.
Leveraging alternative datasets, investors can identify promising healthcare startups, assess the efficacy of new therapies, and predict market shifts with greater accuracy.
Fixed income securities traditionally include bonds, treasuries, and other debt instruments. When evaluating these securities, asset managers estimate creditworthiness and risk-return characteristics, yield curves, interest rates, and macroeconomic factors.
Financial data is a broad category that includes datasets that fall between traditional and alternative data. We have broken this data category into four key sub-categories: 1) tick and pricing data; 2) flow data; 3) fundamental data; and 4) trading signals.
In today’s globalized world, economic conditions are constantly changing. That is why accurate and early forecasts of global trade flows can provide a good read on economic activity both at the macro and micro levels.
Alternative data opens a firm to new opportunities and sources of alpha or insight, but it also potentially opens the firm to new risks. This is edition two of a report that was first published in April 2021
Cryptocurrency, or "crypto" as it's become widely referred to, has been one of the quickest moving trends in the investment space in recent years, with retail and institutional investors throwing their hat in the ring.
Asset managers use expert views to gain additional insights into specific industries, companies, or markets that may not be readily available through other data sources.
Pricing datasets contain information on the prices of various products or services. These datasets typically include information such as the vendor, product name, unit price, currency, and date.
This report explores business insights as an alternative data source and how it can be used in investment analysis. We also examine leading vendors providing business insights.
This report explores open data as an alternative data source and how it can be used in investment analysis. We also examine leading vendors providing open data analytics.
This report aims to educate asset managers and provide some clear and relevant use cases supplied by event data providers hosted on our data discovery platform.
Buyside funds and data vendors with varying levels of alternative data experience completed detailed surveys over a one-month period in late 2022. Below are the key takeaways from these surveys. Also attached is a link to the full report.