Alternative Data for Luxury Asset Markets
The conventional sources of financial insight stop at the edge of public markets. ALT/FNDATA begins where they end, turning the real transaction record of luxury collectibles into institutional-grade alternative data you can query, chart and model.
What is alternative data?
Alternative data is information that sits outside the conventional filings, broker notes and exchange feeds that traditional analysis depends on. In public markets it might mean card spending or shipping movements. In the world of tangible assets it means something more fundamental: the prices that watches, paintings, motor cars and jewels actually command when they change hands. That record is the truest signal a collectible market produces, and for most of history it has been scattered across thousands of sale rooms and private deals, impossible to study at scale.
Alternative asset data, built from real transactions
ALT/FNDATA gathers that record and makes it usable. Every sale becomes a structured row in a single schema, normalised across houses and converted to a common currency, so a result from a Geneva watch auction and a New York jewelry sale sit side by side and compare cleanly. This is not a survey or an index estimate. It is the transaction itself, captured across every major category of passion asset.
Each category carries depth rather than a recent snapshot, with more than a century of history behind the headline numbers. Browse the full datasets or read the latest market reports to see the data in use.
How the data is built
A record begins as a primary source: a lot result, a catalogue entry, a private sale. It is captured, classified and de-duplicated, then reconciled and priced using nearest-date exchange rates, and finally enriched with the attributes that matter to each market, from brand and model to materials and provenance. Quality gates sit between collection and publication, so what reaches the dataset is clean, comparable and ready to analyse. The same discipline that governs institutional market data governs ours.
Who relies on alternative asset data
Investors and analysts use it for price discovery and signal generation in markets where official benchmarks are thin or slow. Wealth managers and family offices value client holdings against real comparable sales. Insurers and appraisers set replacement values with evidence rather than estimate. Academics and researchers study the long-run behaviour of assets that have never had a clean public record. Wherever a luxury asset needs a defensible number, this is the data behind it.
How ALT/FNDATA compares to other data platforms
Every market has its reference data platform. Against the institutional players, ALT/FNDATA is the equivalent for tangible alternative assets. Against the category specialists, it covers their market and every other collectible in one place.
Institutional data platforms
Category specialists
Frequently asked questions
What is alternative data?
Alternative data is information that sits outside the conventional financial filings, broker research and exchange feeds that traditional analysis relies upon. It is used to find insight that is not yet priced into a market. For tangible assets, the most valuable alternative data is the transaction record itself: the prices that watches, paintings, motor cars and jewels actually command when they change hands.
What is alternative asset data?
Alternative asset data is alternative data about alternative assets, meaning the luxury and collectible markets that fall outside stocks and bonds. ALT/FNDATA structures this into a single schema across every major category, drawn from auction houses and private sales worldwide and converted to a common currency, so it can be queried, charted and modelled like any other dataset.
How is alternative data used in finance?
Investors use alternative data for price discovery, valuation and signal generation in markets where official benchmarks are thin or slow. In luxury collectibles, funds track momentum across categories, wealth managers value client holdings, insurers and appraisers set replacement values, and researchers study long-run returns on passion assets.
Which asset classes does ALT/FNDATA cover?
Coverage spans luxury watches, fine art, classic and collector cars, jewelry and gems, designer handbags, wine and spirits, motorcycles, and aircraft, with more categories added over time. Each carries deep history rather than a recent snapshot.
How far back does the alternative asset data go?
The record reaches back more than 130 years, assembled from over 850 auction and private-market sources and refreshed continuously as new sales are reported.