Eagle Alpha has introduced two new alternative data sets to help asset managers to gain alpha.
The company offers help in gaining alpha from alternative data through providing research reports, analytical tools and data sets.
Access to new, previously un-tapped, alternative data could help asset managers to make better long-term investment decisions.
The first data sets are on UK residential housing and the UK auto industry. Transaction and point of sale data and Chinese data are expected to be available in Q2 2016.
The housing data set encompasses approximately 80 percent of UK home sales, and includes data such as build-time, geographical information, rental yields and valuations over the last 10 years.
The auto set coves two areas: auto miles per gallon, for which it has 90,000 data points; and MOT records, to help identify high failure-rates, for which it has 355 million records.
Data is gathered through Eagle Alpha’s proprietary tools or through relationships with third parties, before it is harvested, cleaned and tested, and delivered to asset managers.
Emmett Kilduff, CEO of 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.”
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