Handbook of Alternative Data in Finance, Volume I motivates and challenges the reader to explore and apply Alternative Data in finance. The book provides a robust and in-depth overview of Alternative Data, including its definition, characteristics, difference from conventional data, categories of Alternative Data, Alternative Data providers, and more. The book also offers a rigorous and detailed exploration of process, application and delivery that should be practically useful to researchers and practitioners alike.
Features
- Includes cutting edge applications in machine learning, fintech, and more
- Suitable for professional quantitative analysts, and as a resource for postgraduates and researchers in financial mathematics
- Features chapters from many leading researchers and practitioners
Author(s): Gautam Mitra, Christina Erlwein-Sayer, Kieu Thi Hoang, Diana Roman, Zryan Sadik
Series: CRC Press/OptiRisk Series in Finance
Publisher: CRC Press/Chapman & Hall
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 477
City: Boca Raton
Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Editors and Contributors
Abbreviations
CHAPTER 1: Alternative Data: Overview
PART (I): ALTERNATIVE DATA: PROCESSING AND IMPACT
CHAPTER 2: Contemplation and Reflection on Using Alternative Data for Trading and Fund Management
CHAPTER 3: Global Economy and Markets Sentiment Model
PART (II): COUPLING MODELS WITH ALTERNATIVE DATA FOR FINANCIAL ANALYTICS
CHAPTER 4: Enhanced Corporate Bond Yield Modeling Incorporating Macroeconomic News Sentiment
CHAPTER 5: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Quantitative Models
PART (III): HANDLING DIFFERENT ALTERNATIVE DATASETS
CHAPTER 6: Asset Allocation Strategies: Enhanced by Micro-Blog
CHAPTER 7: Asset Allocation Strategies: Enhanced by News
CHAPTER 8: Extracting Structured Datasets from Textual Sources -- Some Examples
CHAPTER 9: Comparative Analysis of NLP Approaches for Earnings Calls
CHAPTER 10: Sensors Data
PART (IV): ALTERNATIVE DATA USE CASES IN FINANCE
(PART IV.A): Application in Trading and Fund Management (Finding New Alpha)
CHAPTER 11: Media Sentiment Momentum
CHAPTER 12: Defining Market States with Media Sentiment
(PART IV.B): Application in Risk Control
CHAPTER 13: A Quantitative Metric for Corporate Sustainability
CHAPTER 14: Hot Off the Press: Predicting Intraday Risk and Liquidity with News Analytics
CHAPTER 15: Exogenous Risks, Alternative Data Implications for Strategic Asset Allocation – Multi-Subordination Levy Processes Approach
(PART IV.C): Case Studies on ESG
CHAPTER 16: ESG Controversies and Stock Returns
CHAPTER 17: Oil and Gas Drilling Waste - A Material Externality
CHAPTER 18: ESG Scores and Price Momentum Are Compatible: Revisited
PART (V): DIRECTORY OF ALTERNATIVE DATA VENDORS
ALEXANDRIA TECHNOLOGY
BLOOMBERG L.P.
CHINASCOPE
EXANTE DATA
FACTEUS
FACTSET
GTCOM Technology Corporation
INFOTRIE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS
MARKETPSYCH DATA
NIKKEI FTRI
NOWCAST INC.
RAVENPACK
REFINITIV
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