Skate's Art Investment Handbook

The fine arts represent one of the oldest and most consistently profitable investment vehicles. Yet, despite its maturity and the tens of billions of dollars generated each year through art sales, the art market has remained uniquely resistant to the social and economic forces, new technologies, and other potent drivers that have revolutionized virtually every other investment class. Until now. Thanks to the pioneering research of author Sergey Skaterschikov, institutional and private speculators can approach both active and passive investment in the global art market with a higher degree of transparency, unavailable to previous generations of investors. The only how-to guide of its kind, i Skate's Art Investment Handbook/i demystifies art investing. It provides a detailed, dispassionate look at the global art investment market, introducing readers to the major players and various art investment vehicles currently available. More importantly, it outlines an original analyticalmodel and a set of rational strategies for profiting from this alternative asset class. Drawing upon more than a century of statistical data, original valuation metrics, and other powerful proprietary tools, Sergey Skaterschikov describes proven techniques that allow you to: Correctly value art assets Accurately forecast their long-term values Precisely track and forecast trends in the notoriously fickle art market Expertly deploy strategies for optimizing returns on art investments Confidently invest in funds, derivatives and other passive art investment vehicles Taking art investing out of the murky realm of sentiment and aesthetics and into the bright light of financial valuation and market statistics, Skate's Art Investment Handbook is a book whose time has come.