Alternative Data M&A is Heating Up: Looking Back and Ahead
New industries are typically fragmented with numerous small players competing for market share. Industries then consolidate as they become more mature. According to A.T. Kearney’s study, all industries go through a consolidation life cycle which consists of five...
Satellite Data for Investors: A Note on Recent Market Trends and Demand Drivers
Satellite data also referred to as geospatial data, is photographic images collected by satellites orbiting the earth and can be enhanced with data from drones and radar. Asset managers first tried using satellite data back in 2010 with CNBC reporting that “Cold...
The View from the Lakeshore
Building a Data Lake Ops Platform that Can Handle the Reality of Data The Data Circus Much has been said in the data world about ideal states: “Data at your fingertips”, “Plug-and-play insights”, “Empower your whole organization with data”, and “Democratizing insights...
Data Sourcing: The Key to Any Alternative Data Initiative
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 end to end challenges of evaluating alternative data: And how Exabel and Eagle Alpha have partnered to solve them
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...
Most Squeezable U.S. Stocks | S3 Partners Guest Blog
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...