u/Dramatic_Mammoth5720

I have a DC pension with Aviva from my previous job and one with WTW (LifeSight) from my current role.

Both are in the highest risk fund (default for my age).

Over the past 5 years, the aviva fund is up around 50%. LifeSight is up 94%.

Over the past 1 year, aviva is up 25% and LifeSight is up 34%.

I’m aware that past performance is no promise of future returns, but would it be wise or unwise to transfer my aviva pension to LifeSight?

I’ve been building some python models recently, just for fun. So far, I’m using the FRED API to bootstrap yield curves and the yfinance library to access option chain data.

Since I’m just doing this for fun, data lag isn’t an issue. Data quality isn’t super important. What matters more to a that the data is free (or very cheap) and ideally accessible by API.

‘Data’ is intentionally vague - most market data would be worth having if it’s free to access and I’m sure I’d find a use for it. However, specific examples of data I’m hoping to use are:

* CDX spreads would be particularly useful at the moment though.
* Interest rate derivatives (probably not possible, since most are OTC).
* European option prices (tbh I don’t actually know if these exist - most actually traded options seem to be American)

Regarding the last one: I thought it would be fun to try and approximate the value of the “Americanism” of options (relative to their European counterparts). It would therefore be awesome if I could access prices for both American and European options on the same underlying to validate the accuracy of my approximations. However, it seems unlikely to me that such options exist (or that deep liquid markets for both option styles exist on the same underlying).