Hedge fund managers who managed 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 manages 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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Expected adoption of alternative data among hedge fund managers globally 2020
In 2020, ** percent of hedge fund managers who were using alternative data globally believed that alternative data will be widely adopted in the next *** years. Only percent of them didn't think that it will become mainstream.
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