Vinesh Jha, ExtractAlpha Alternative Data & Crowdsourcing Financial Intelligence | #391

Published: Feb. 16, 2022, 6 p.m.

b'Our guest is Vinesh Jha, founder and CEO of ExtractAlpha, an independent research firm dedicated to providing unique, actionable alpha signals to institutional investors.\\nIn today\\u2019s episode, we\\u2019re talking all things quant finance and alternative data. Vinesh walks through his background at StarMine, which built a Morningstar-esque company for equity research, and then dives into what he\\u2019s doing today at ExtractAlpha. He shares all the different ways he analyzes alternative data, whether it\\u2019s looking at sentiment and ticker searches or using natural language processing to analyze transcripts from earnings calls. Then he shares whether or not he thinks alternative data can help investors focused on ESG.\\xa0\\xa0\\nAs we wind down, we touch on ExtractAlpha\\u2019s merger with Estimize and the ability to crowd source financial intelligence.\\n-----\\nFollow Meb on Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube\\nFor detailed show notes, click here\\nTo learn more about our funds and follow us, subscribe to our\\xa0mailing list\\xa0or visit us at cambriainvestments.com\\n-----\\nToday\\u2019s episode is sponsored by The Idea Farm. The Idea Farm gives you access to over $100,000 worth of investing research, the kind usually read by only the world\\u2019s largest institutions, funds, and money managers. Join today and get access to quarterly CAPE ratios, an excel quant backtester and the entire research library.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'