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Recorded Webinar: Navigating the Build vs Buy Dilemma: Cloud Strategies for Accelerating Quantitative Research

For many quantitative trading firms and asset managers, building a self-provisioned historical market data environment remains one of the most time-consuming and resource-intensive steps in establishing a new research capability. Sourcing data, normalising symbologies, handling corporate actions and maintaining infrastructure can take months and absorb significant budget before a single model is tested. At the...

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Testing an Assumption: Do AI Signals Really Decay?

Alpha decay is one of the foundational assumptions in quantitative finance. The empirical literature, beginning with McLean and Pontiff’s 2016 study of 97 anomalies and replicated and refined across multiple subsequent studies, has repeatedly found that returns degrade out-of-sample and degrade further once published. The assumption sits inside almost every institutional model risk framework as...

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Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference, Fall, New York, hosted by A-Team Group

Now in its 8th year, the Eagle Alpha Alternative Data Conference managed by A-Team Group, is the premier content forum and networking event for investment firms and hedge funds.

Alternative Data in Capital Markets Handbook 2026

Alternative data adoption in capital markets has moved into a more disciplined phase. Simply possessing a dataset is no longer a differentiator – the priority now is how data is sourced, synthesised and deployed, and how quickly granular, disaggregated signals can be turned into validated, decision-ready insight. The 2026 edition of the Alternative Data in...