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David Loaiza: Roughly 80% of alternative data sold by vendors is duplicated

David Loisa · Panel: Alternative Data in Financial Services (FirstMark's Data Driven) · Mar 24, 2017 · at 41:51

David Loisa is at Point72. He discusses the low uniqueness of alternative data sets pitched to hedge funds by third-party vendors.

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“You see people taking data from that set, and you compare it, it's about 80% the same data that someone is selling it.”

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Roughly 80% of alternative data sold by vendors is identical to data from other existing datasets.

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