Asia investors boost use of unorthodox data sources in battle to beat benchmarks

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Sometime in the third quarter of 2016, Blackrock’s scientific active equity team, which manages $80 billion (£62 billion) globally, began picking up increased signs of construction activity on the ground in China by using satellite imagery.

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