and what it means to you
07.12.17 – Wine Investment – “Steel Rally’s So Powerful It’s Now Back To Lehman-Crisis Levels” was the Bloomberg headline that caught our eye this morning, making us ponder that the global economy must be in decent shape after all. It seems no time since we were reading doom-laden scenarios for commodities like Iron Ore because […]
29.11.17 – Wine Investment How not to write a wine investment review A few weeks ago we talked about how important it is to de-mystify not only the economics side of the fine wine investments world, but also the consumption side. This raised a lot of supportive comment, but left some people wondering where to […]
It’s quite difficult to dispute the suggestion that the fine wine investment market, as represented by the Liv-ex 100, awoke from its slumber almost exactly 2 years ago and has moved ahead at varying degrees of acceleration. Therefore, we thought it might be revealing to look at wines which have underperformed over that period, to […]
07.11.17 – Wine Investment At Amphora we spend a lot of time scouring the fine wine investments market for bargains. Occasionally, we take a blanket view across all wine investment regions to see if there’s anything notable from a top-down perspective. We’ve spoken recently about the value resident in pretty much every 2009 and 2010 second […]
Eagle-eyed readers of last week’s post have pointed out that you can ‘throw a blanket’ over the prices of five quite different Petit Moutons, and are wondering what exactly this means for a tactical approach to the market. Does it mean, for example, that considerations of quality are irrelevant and that all wines eventually polarise […]
25.10.17 Amphora fine wine investment was invited to Japan by the American Chamber of Commerce to speak to its members on the subject of fine wine investment, hard on the heels of the trip to India. The ACCJ has in recent times presented experts in the field of a variety of “passion investments” and it […]
24.10.17 Amphora’s client base in Japan has been growing steadily over the last few years. We visit Japan every three months and spend time in Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo. The last trip saw James Fletcher flying out to Tokyo to meet David Jackson who was on the tail end of a trip from India. To […]
18.10.17 In its continual quest to spread the fine wine investment message worldwide, Amphora visited Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi two weeks ago to conduct presentations and blind-tastings as guests of one of its new Indian wealth management partners, Altamount Capital. It has selected Amphora to spearhead its drive into the world of alternative investments. Trips […]
27.09.17 Analysing the price movements of fine wines One of the interesting findings from the analysis of fine wine price movements, that we’ve been conducting post-Brexit referendum, was the differentiated performance of sectors within the market. As well as learning that there was no premium in terms of price-rise accorded to older (pre-1996), and therefore […]
19.09.17 Sterling’s effect on fine wine investments The interest created by last week’s currency blog was so great that we have been asked to investigate this fine wine investments phenomenon further. As the real shock arrived with the referendum result, we have taken the analysis back to that point. The question therefore becomes: which wines […]
Tracking the ups and downs of the currency and fine wine markets over the past few years, it’s surely no coincidence that they match up rather closely and with that correlation come opportunities. Whichever way you look at the above five year chart, the indices it records appear to bottom in July 2014, before taking […]
07.09.17 “Quelle dommage”, as they would say in Bordeaux. Last weekend the Sunday Times ran an article in its ‘Money’ supplement about alternative asset performance and seems to us to have somewhat missed a trick. True, it trotted out all the recent performance figures, which are helpful to a point, but it failed to address […]