Hedge fund managers who manage about 720 billion U.S. dollars in assets in total
Supplementary notes
Alternative data is used by investors to evaluate a company or investment that is not within their traditional data sources. For example, app usage or credit/debit card transactions fall under alternative data sources.
The source splits hedge fund managers into "market leaders" - defined as those managers that have been using alternative data for more than five years - and the "rest of the market", which includes managers that have been using alternative data for less than half a decade.
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Number of alternative data sets used by hedge fund managers globally 2020
In 2020, more than ** percent of hedge fund managers classified as alternative data market leaders used or more alternative data sets globally, while only percent of the rest of the market used at least alternative data sets. This highlights the difference between the level of alternative data experience between the two groups. Using *** or more alternative data sets was the most popular approach across both groups with ** percent of market leaders and ** percent of the rest of the market doing this.
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