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Auction: an exceptional lot of Romanée Conti

guru — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 05:00:18 +0000

Auctions have the means of shaking up collectors nerves. In the following months, auctions presenting exceptional lots such as a collection of 114 Romanée Conti bottles are going to be on the market!

Sotheby’s is organizing an auction in Hong Kong on the 4^th of October of this year, in which this fabulous lot of 114 bottles of Romanée Conti, as well as a private collection of Gran Crus, from Netscape’s founder, Jim Clark, containing a lot of Henri Jayer magnums.
This auction should move the great collectors and Burgundy amateurs in all of Asia. Of the 778 lots proposed, 40% will be represented by Burgundies, weighing for more than 70% of the total value, that’s estimated at in between 4,5 and 6,7 million dollars.

A lot of 114 bottles of Romanée Conti is a unique event, probably in one’s lifetime. This auction should leave it’s mark for years to come.

Acker, Merall Condit’s are organizing an auction in New York on the 6th of September. Again, Bordeaux and Burgundy Grand crus, will have collectors drooling. Such as a vertical of Châteu Lafite, or a lot of 5 “millésimes” from DRC Richebourg, from 1990 and 2006.

Fine and rare wine auctions, are continuously growing, reaching more amateurs and collectors from all over the world.

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Buying a unit trust plan

guru — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 07:00:04 +0000

Not a day goes by, that I ask myself “why do investors continue to invest in traditional placements such as unit trusts, instead of diversifying their investments in products where they control the totality of the process, from purchase to re-sale, knowing in advance the real fees and the different costs pertaining to this operation over the years?”
To buy a unit trust, implies delegating the management of a securities portfolio, according to precise specifications, but when the manager makes abstraction of this, it can only lead to bad surprises.

For further information (In French): http://votreargent.lexpress.fr/placements/quand-les-gerants-de-fonds-derapent_361675.html#3zlzgqfUumzghHeG.99

Placements in art or wine, have always been contested by investment professionals dealing with common unit trusts, stock exchange, mutual fund investments, life insurance etc. bringing forward many and often obscure reasons, the most important one being: a crass ignorance of the product.
Art and wine are by definition tangible investments that are perfectly controlled.
Why, you may ask? Well, simply because you are the sole and unique owner of this asset, that’s stocked in a secured environment, totally managed by yourself as well as knowing in advance the custodial fees; thereby you know the buying price and the costs involved.

You won’t know the sales price, same as all the glowing investments supposed to bring two or even three times the investment! But with wine, you will never navigate in unfathomable waters, since the price of wine is directly related to the offer and demand principles, and as far as the Grand Crus are concerned, as you certainly are aware, there is a, much larger demand than the actual offer! Have a close look around you, why are so many people buying French wines? 155 million cases of 12 bottles each sold on the Chinese market, in other words 1 860 000 bottles! To some extent some will be drunk, but what about the great vintage bottles at more than a 1000 $ a bottle? Be they Chinese, Americans, Russians, English or Brazilians and even from the Indian subcontinent, they have all understood that wine has the most speculative value on today’s markets, and of course should the windfall cease, at least, they, can drink their investment!!!

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The wine market, an authentic placement

guru — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 07:20:50 +0000

Whilst the sounds of boots marching over Crimea are being heard the world over, an ill wind of panic is blowing on the international stock markets. As it is often the case with any major international political crisis, investors are the first casualties, loosing their virtual assets when it is not their initial investment, the latter requiring several years to recuperate.
Paris – 2,66%, Frankfurt -3,44%, Moscow -10%, London – 1,49%, Wall Street – 1,27% and this is only the beginning!
For the year 2014, one can expect a high volatility level to the detriment of assets such as shares, forcing investors to notice alternatives such as: Gold, (being a relatively uncertain value), rare metals, art and wine.
Those investors diversifying their assets will be protected from the vicissitudes of the stock exchange markets. Art and fine wines are sterling placements that are both tangible and certainly not virtual.

Whilst the world demand for fine wines has exploded and has not diminished, that the international auctions beat all time records, that climate has taken an important part in the market place, imposing a new factor; bad weather. This climatic change has reduced production, hence automatically raising prices!

A good number of professional financial investors, or investment counselors, refuse to propose the wine option to their clients as an alternative investment, it is to wonder if this is due to a lack of information, which seems to be absolute nonsense, or simply a voluntary attitude!!!

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