Post-acquisition Management
capital growth and no income at all, property of various types provides the ideal investment. Property can be in gold and jewellery, fine art, land and buildings, collectors'pieces, wine, and anything else that may appreciate in value with age.
However it should be remembered that many of these items have very limited markets, and the saleable value (particularly of lower value collectors'pieces) will only be a small fraction of the price quoted in catalogues.
Similarly, jewellery has little value above the value of the metal and stones used in it, unless the piece is of exceptional craftmanship. Your wedding ring and other domestic jewellery is not an investment. Its saleable value will rarely be more than half what you paid for it.
To invest in fine art requires a specialist's skill. The auction houses offer a comprehensive valuation service and produce indices of how prices have moved for particular categories of fine art.
Land and buildings provide the safest security of all, but again specialist knowledge is needed. There are moves to allow shares to be sold for specific properties, so you could, for example, own 2% of an office block. This is likely to happen in the next few years, but in the meantime the objective can be achieved by buying shares in a property company.
It is possible to buy shares in a British ship. There are often 64 shares to a ship. If investing in property, remember that your capital growth must also cover the expenses of insuring the property and, probably, such things as storage, val
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