Alternative data can better inform and structure investment decisions, uncover investment opportunities, generate alpha, enrich risk models and reduce research costs.

• "80% of institutional investors want greater access to alternative data”

• Buy-side spending on alternative data tripled over the last 3 years

• Number of funds deploying alt data grew x4 in the last 4 years

• 90% of managers get an ROI on their spend on alternative datasets

• Number of alternative data providers (DP) has grown >10-fold since 2000. Accelerated growth in the last 6 years.