Background According to our 2021 buyside survey of funds implementing an alternative data strategy, data budgets were forecast to grow by over 20% in 2021, and with the average spending on datasets becoming larger for recent alternative data adopters than more...

Background As asset managers invest resources into building out alternative data initiatives, data sourcing is seen as an integral part of the process, with in-house and outsourced professionals finding and introducing datasets and data vendors. With datasets rapidly...

The following guest article was written by Ihor Dusaniwsky, Managing Director of Predictive Analytics, S3 Partners, a market-leading financial data and technology company that provides Pricing and Analytics for Capital Markets and Solutions that connect clients to...

Introduction: Alternative data is increasingly being used in private markets, including private equity, real estate, credit, and infrastructure, across deal origination, due diligence, and post-acquisition value creation and risk mitigation. Initially, interest in...

Background Employment data has been the 4th most popular alternative data category on the Eagle Alpha data discovery platform over the past 12 months, seeing a 40% YoY increase in the number of employment datasets onboarded. Job listings data provide asset managers...

Cryptocurrency, or “crypto” as it has become widely referred to, has been one of the quickest moving trends in the investment space of late, with retail and institutional investors throwing their hats in the ring. In a recent conversation with Netherlands-based...