June 2, 2026

Art Investor

Art Investor

Masterworks Automates Currency Conversion for Cross-Border Investments

[ad_1] Masterworks turns each artwork purchased into investible shares through an SEC-qualified offering and works closely with investors, through its advisory affiliate, to build portfolios across artworks. Masterworks then manages the artwork, including insurance, storage, conservation and public display, until the artwork is resold and proceeds are returned to investors. To simplify payments for international

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Two Buyers of Hunter Biden’s Art Have Been Unmasked, Despite Attempts to Keep Their Names Secret

[ad_1] Hunter Biden’s art career is back in the headlines. It turns out one of his collectors is a Democratic donor—a Los Angeles philanthropist and real estate investor named Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali who gave $13,414 to President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign and was later named to his Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad.

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Nadra Moussalem: The French-Lebanese investor blending finance and art

[ad_1] Nadra Moussalem, the Franco-Lebanese head of the investment fund Colony Investment Management, posing at the Molitor Hotel in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, which he owns. (Credit: David Atlan.) Last April, French-Lebanese investor Nadra Moussalem’s Colony Investment Management acquired a 51 percent stake in Perrotin, the renowned contemporary art gallery founded by Emmanuel Perrotin.This

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Leonardo DiCaprio Joins the Magnus App as an Investor and Advisor

[ad_1] Leonardo DiCaprio has been a familiar presence in art fairs, auction-house skyboxes, and museum galas for years, building a reputation as a collector hungry for new art—sometimes even acquiring it with the help of his Instagram account. Now, the Oscar-winning actor has become an investor in Magnus, the controversial app company that bills itself as a “Shazam

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Inigo Philbrick, the Art World’s Mini-Madoff, and Me

[ad_1] lnigo Philbrick, left, and the writer, in St. Moritz on New Year’s Eve in 2015. Photo: Courtesy Schachter When I first met Inigo Philbrick in 2012, he was all of 25, looked an awful lot like Justin Timberlake, and was running an art gallery called Modern Collections in London’s Mayfair district. Despite sounding like

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An Expert Guide To Investing In Art

[ad_1] How does art stack up as an alternative asset class? Avid collector Johnny Hon, founder and chairman of the Global Group, offers some rules of thumb when weighing a purchase For as long as art has existed, it has been funded by rich patrons. From pharaohs to Athenian statesmen to Renaissance financiers, art

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What’s it take to be super fund of the year?

[ad_1] What does it take become superannuation fund of the year? We asked Australian Retirement Trust (ART), which recently won the Morningstar Super Fund of the Year 2026. According to Morningstar, the Australian Retirement Trust (ART) won its super fund of the year award due to its skilled investment team;, superior returns, coupled with its high-conviction

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Art as an investment: How to build an art collection from scratch

[ad_1] The idea of a global pandemic driving purchases of fine art may sound absurd, but that is exactly what occurred during the lockdown. Dinesh Vazirani, CEO and co-founder of Saffronart, an international auction house with nearly five hundred auctions to its credit, chalks it down to the fact that people were more involved in

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Double Dutch: This Old Masters Dealer Has Discovered Yet Another Previously Unknown Rembrandt

[ad_1] The Dutch Old Masters dealer Jan Six says he’s discovered that a painting previously attributed to a “Netherlandish School” is actually by Rembrandt. Six spotted the work, titled Let the Children Come to Me, at German auction house Lempertz in 2014, where it was being sold with a pre-sale estimate of €15,000-20,000. He and an

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ART unveils ‘carefully curated’ choice investment range for members

[ad_1] Australian Retirement Trust (ART) members will have access to 15 “carefully constructed” choice investment options that cover a broad range of objectives and investment timeframes from 1 July. According to the fund, the product suite was curated to best meet members’ goals and life stages. Commenting on the new investment menu, ART chief of

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