Financial Services

Alternative Data For Hedge Funds & Portfolio Management

2020 & 2021 thus far have not been business as usual. Last year started with a continued run of the longest bull market run in modern economic history, which traces its beginnings to the previous market low post-sub-prime mortgage triggered the financial crisis in early March 2009.

Using Alternative Data for Insurance & Credit Scoring

Whether we are talking about the credit-granting or insurance underwriting arena, alternative data usually refers to datasets not inherently related to an individual's credit or insurance claim behavior.

How To Leverage Alternative Data In Asset Management

Whether you are managing a hedge fund trying to find innovative sources of alpha or are an analyst looking to future proof your company’s financial investments, as big data continues to disrupt the investment research landscape, getting on top of these alternative datasets as early as possible is the key to capturing the immense alpha left in this data.

Navigating compliance when extracting alternative data for finance

When it comes to using web data as alternative data for investment decision making, one topic rules them all: compliance.

The rise of web data in hedge fund decision making

Over the past few years, there has been an explosion in the use of alternative data sources in investment decision making in hedge funds, investment banks, and private equity firms.

Witness the power of web scraped product data for investors

A Sneak Peek Inside What Hedge Funds Think of Alternative Financial Data

Unbeknownst to many, there is a data revolution happening in finance. In their never ending search for alpha hedge funds and investment banks are increasingly turning to new alternative sources of data to give them an informational edge over the market.

Want To Predict Fitbit’s Quarterly Revenue? Eagle Alpha Did It Using Web Scraped Product Data

Throughout the history of the financial markets information has been power.