guide for your personal artinvestment: STRATEGIES

Welcome to Personal Artinvestment

Independent research of true values of art and their adept financial evaluation will be the basis for your success as a collector and investor. It's not easy to find the best pathes in the jungle of the artworld. Hundreds of art magazines and feature stories in daily newspapers or financial magazines can inform as well as confuse you.

What kind of art, which epoches, which artists and what kind of background story will be important as a basis to make your decision for selling or buying? Do you believe in mainstream or do you prefer individual strategies? What will be the best moment to sell or to buy? Do you really know the art market - local, national and global?

Art is an expression of thinking and feeling. To collect art is as individual as your own personality. To invest in art can give a lot of benefits to you as well as incredible high profits. Since the beginning of art market, more than 2000 years ago, it was always an important item for the rich and powerful to collect art. And it is important to know, that the interest was divided on old and contemporary art as well. Beside of real estates and gold nothing else could save and grow up fortunes. Art has not just unpayable emotional and social effects, but it was always a save currency, easy to store and easy to transfer.

Maybe you are a tough manager or a well educated self-made-man, do you you have really enough time to study arthistory, the artmarkt and all the stories and strategies behind the beauty of art? If you don't like to miss to built up a prestigious collection and to grow up your fortune, you need very much time, a lot of experience, academical knowledge, direct contacts to collectors, dealers and secrete sources, and a lot more before investing your money successfully. It need really professional engagement to connect enjoyment and investment. ArtExpert is one of the oldest independent professional networks to give all the necessary aid to the collector and investor. Imagine, to feel comfortable in the jungle of art as well as in the jungle of economy, it needs a guide who knows the map of this labyrinth. It is important to know somebody, you trust in, who will work just for your interests, who will able to tell yuo the truth and you is currently involved in the permanent development of science and the market. Define your budget, think about the real reasons of your interests for art and find out your personal partner to fullfill your aims.

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Guideline to the artcollector or investor

Art as an i n v e s t m e n t

Historical capital worth
Since the beginning of our culture art is beside the emotional value a capital worth. In the interaction of offer and inquiry pieces of art are defined after quality, recognition and general public effect. A frequent question is: Where, nevertheless, economically are the differences to conventional investments like stocks or real estate?

Profitability
If we assume for art a long-term investment more than at least 8 to 15 years, a worth growing up to more than 100% are absolutely possible. All available statistics show that art correlates as an investment medium positively in the long term with the finance markets, that means, that at rising stock exchanges also the value of art increases.

Unusual material and immaterial results are to be done in particular with the acquisition of artistically high-quality discoveries. In this case it can turn out extremely attractive to invest in the often protracted scientific investigation for the protection of the attribution as well as the necessary restoration. Nevertheless, a main condition are enthusiasm for the piece of art, suitable liquid means for the treatment and patience to be able to wait for the result.

Security
The complete loss of worth is practically impossible, provided that one compensates the damage by destruction and theft by a suitable art assurance.

Authenticity and origin
are the most important criteria to guarantee the quality of a piece of art and to avoid, to come to the possession of phoney, stolen or robbed works. Therefore, before purchase or sales expert-advice should be taken to the avoid errors. Such costs are in no relation to financial losses and disappointments.

Conservative art banking
The investment in art should be seen generally under long-term points of view. Thus the art market changes, for instance, in comparison to stock market more slowly, the market trends reproach longer and the owner of art is not defeated by the stress of permanent possible course variations.

Tax consideration
Depend of the individual tax system. Ask your tax-adviser or ask for general information info@artexpert.de

Recommendation
If we look at art not only under the aspect of the investment, but also under the aspect of spiritual enrichment, art hits always investment possibilities. Besides all profits,the emotional and social dividend, the joy which one can have with a piece of art, is not payable.

Saturday, May 15, 2010

STRATEGIES

Strategies

The predominant number of collectors don’t think of an alternative investment, thus of art in place of an investment of funds, but wants to acquire works, which fit their profile and at the same time hold their value or rise in the value. As a material value it should be handled with care. All the best strategy will be orientated on a long-term concept. Who acquired end of the 70's for example Beckmann or Kirchner, an immense increase in value experienced. The same development can be seen for contemporary art of the 70’s: The Black Marilyn silk screen by Warhol, once sold under 1000 $, obtained to 30.03.2010 in London more than 200.000 GBP.

Short term transactions, i.e. in one period of approximately 3-7 years, can throw also considerable profits off, require however special technical and market knowledges - and above all entrance to particularly favorable sources for the purchase. It is valid to note with works of art, that contrary to shares or loans, similarly as with real estate, a sale is to be converted not within a dail into money-currency. A completion can last between some weeks and months for the broker up to one year in the auction trade.

A the estimated investor will get advise from his bank broker he should think about advise of an experienced art expert. Experts such as ArtExpert, ACF kind fund trust, USB kind banking or Deutsche Bank art advisors guess/advise meanwhile, if possible, to direct art acquisition and/or work of artwork-referred fund investments. Indepence in advisory and deep knowledge could give additional security to the collector as well as to the investor.

Note: You have to think about this maxim. Take only the best to invest your money.

Decision

Decision basis are often the market data, which can be read partially in the internet or art magazines and the economic features of daily papers. Even the layman can in-select itself by mouseclick within a few minutes into the world-wide offer of the dealers and auctioneers, proof offers and compare prices.

Special software offers analyse of the market situation and of the price history of an artist. The availability of so many data could favour the entrance of new investors by getting a first overview . Practice shows however that a successful investment depends still on resuming information and in particular it is important to recognize future trends. A further, not underestimating aspect are the special fiscal advantages, which exist in the most countries.

Security

A work of art can vary in the price, however its value will never completely lose. And especially in times of crises very important: a artwork is mobile, as well as the sale conttract doesn’t depend from the place , where the artwork is stored. This is very different to currency and bank papers, which will loose it’s value by higher politicalman economical interesest. Annually very much money at the stock exchange is lost. The risk of wrong art investment can not be compared . Even frauds are really a very high risk , probably not more frequently than in the museums stocks. A network of experts, brokers, specialist dealers and auctioneers supplies large security before unpleasant surprises and the network of the big insurance companies, the Art Lost Register, gives information over the fact whether a work of art is possibly as stolen registered or is otherwise burdening.