Alternative Data
Non-traditional datasets and the marketplaces that source and evaluate them — card spend, web traffic, satellite, app data.
We currently map 14 vendors in alternative data within research & insight, 7 with detailed profiles covering funding, size, and positioning. The landscape below shows who leads, who challenges, and how each platform approaches the problem.
From edge to table stakes
Buying alternative data is easy; proving it pays is not. The work has moved from sourcing to evaluation — measuring signal decay, overlap with existing factors and the true cost per basis point of alpha.
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The top software vendors firms use here, and the features those tools actually ship.
Market landscape
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