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Eagle Alpha is today making new alternative datasets available to asset managers. Data on UK residential housing and the UK auto industry are the first sets to be offered with transactional / point of sales datasets and Chinese datasets to be added in Q2 2016. The data allows asset managers to access previously untapped alternative data so they can better inform long-term investment decisions.
The housing dataset captures 80% of UK home sales including build times, geographical information, rental yields and valuations over the past 10 years. The auto dataset covers two key areas, 90,000 data points on auto miles per gallon and 355 million MOT records that can identify high failure rates.
Eagle Alpha’s team, comprised of engineers, research analysts and data scientists, identifies the best alternative data sources for asset managers, from satellite imagery to credit card transactions. This is either gathered from Eagle Alpha propriety tools or from exclusive relationships with third party sources. The data is harvested, cleansed and tested then delivered to asset managers for input into their own investment models.
Emmett Kilduff, CEO, Eagle Alpha said: “Asset managers are crying out for alternative data sources to crunch and analyse but they can’t access them or have the time to find alpha within the data. We’re addressing this challenge. There are thousands of alternative data sources out there but you need the right technology and people to identify what works and what will really make a difference to a long term investment strategy.”
Eagle Alpha enables asset managers to obtain alpha from alternative data. It is the only company that provides asset managers with research reports, analytical tools and datasets. Research reports cover both companies and macro. Analytical tools include a digital version of an expert network and a tool that provides analytics on over 80 million web sources. All have one aim; to enable asset managers obtain alpha from alternative data.
