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How investors can use alternative data to gain an edge

In 2024, you don’t need to be a hedge fund giant to find useful edges beyond financial statements
December 14, 2023
  • You don’t need to be an active investor for financials to matter
  • But an over-reliance on financial data can act as a set of blinkers
  • alternative data can take various forms

More than most publications, the Investors’ Chronicle cares (and writes) a great deal about the numbers. Without price data, financial figures, valuation metrics and forecasts, the job of weighing up the average investment case, or digesting a half-year report, would be considerably harder.

Our stock screens take this even further. By filtering entire markets through a quantitative lens, we try to turn combinations of certain numbers and measures into investment advantage.

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