In 2020, almost 50 percent of hedge fund managers who were classified as alternative data market leaders named having appropriate infrastructure as their main challenge when using alternative data. As for the rest of the market, 54 percent of alternative data users considered having a good infrastructure to be a challenge.
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Challenges experienced by hedge fund managers when using alternative data worldwide in 2020, by alternative data experience level
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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