Financial Times, Money Section

2011-05-07

Enjoy investing in art and hang the expense - David Stevenson (Adventurous Investor). "The upside is obvious: art, and especially modern art, has been an enormous success in the past couple of decades, possibly even edging into bubble territory for some leading contemporary artists. Talk to experts such as Bernard Duffy at Emotional Asset Management and he’ll tell you that art as an asset class has been a superb performer in relative terms over the past few decades, and that in his very diversified portfolio of collectable assets, modern art (as compared with, say, stamps or Stradivarius violins) comprises 40 per cent of the total assets." To read this piece - click here