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Your comprehensive guide to understanding and leveraging alternative and market data for investment success
Request a DemoUsed by investment managers for over 20 years, alternative data is gathered from non-traditional sources to help firms uncover alpha within their investing processes. Examples include satellite image data, credit card transaction data and data that's scraped from websites.
Many investment managers consider their alternative data sources to provide a competitive edge and consistently seek out new, unique datasets.
Request a DemoMarket data is considered by many to be 'table stakes' for operating a successful trading strategy and allows investors to see a security's latest price and related information about that instrument, such as short interest, volatility and volume.
Some data users define the market data space more broadly, preferring the term traditional data, in order to capture datasets like news, geolocation, fund/asset/retail flows and human capital.
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Find the datasets most likely to help you discover alpha and achieve your investment goals.
Request a DemoHave you made some early investments in data and are disappointed by the results?
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Learn which datasets are "must-haves" for your investment use case and which ones your peers have found lacking.
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Avoid legal and compliance risks that come with selecting a bad dataset.
Benefit from Lytfoot's team of regulatory experts to ensure that your data vendors are compliant with global laws before you start testing data.
Request a Demo"Lytfoot has become a trusted partner in our research process. Whether we are approached by a vendor or are working on a new idea, our first stop is to read the Scout report and reach out to the analysts at Lytfoot to better understand the value of the data and any competitive offerings."
Asset management firm with $500bn+ AUM
"[Lytfoot events] have been really useful for me and my team because we've had some ideas prompted for things we can look out for trading and we've met both data providers we didn't know existed [and] data providers that we did know were there, but we didn't know some of the things they were doing."
Hedge fund with $15bn AUM
Your playbook to getting started with alternative data
Fast-track your learning with access to Lytfoot's library of traditional and alternative data content.
Intelligence articles: Generate investment ideas and see which vendors map to specific real-world use cases
Literature reviews: Analyse academic research on the datasets most likely to generate outsized investment returns
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