As of 2021, China’s population exceeds 1.4 billion people according to United Nations data, which excludes Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. This number makes up approximately one-fifth of the global population, and with the rapid rise in technology in recent years, it...
Like most forms of ESG analysis, governance analysis has traditionally relied almost exclusively on self-reported information, or metrics derived from self-report information. This reliance on self-reported information is likely even greater when it comes to the topic...
This paper is a compilation of alternative data insights relevant to engineers and data scientists from Eagle Alpha’s vast library of content on the Data Strategy solution. The Data Strategy solution helps our clients to build and innovate their alternative data...
Undoubtedly, alternative data has become more accessible to data buyers of all shapes and sizes, with the most accessible avenue into alternative data being web crawling, or web scraping as it’s also known. Web crawling has been utilized by hedge funds and corporates...
Data science and engineering teams at 10 buyside funds completed surveys over a two-week period in August 2021. Although the survey sample is small, there is a great similarity in respondent profiles. This report breaks down the responses by Methodology, Challenges,...
In the ESG landscape, some of the pain points for asset managers, are a lack of comparable, high-quality, high-frequency raw data, a lack of standardized definitions of sustainable activities, conflicting ESG taxonomies, and divergence in scoring methodologies across...
