Violin as Investment
Few investors of fine art are aware of the extraordinary market potential of investment in a vintage violin.
This small and rarefied market has produced high returns for discerning investors comparable or outstripping traditional investments.
We invite you to read the following article from "How to Spend it" magazine in the London Financial Times:
A Second String to Your Bow
Investing in a fund that buys remarkable, rare violins and cellos and then loans them to gifted musicians benefits the instrument itself, the players’ careers – and even one’s bank balance, says Claire Wrathall. Photograph by George Ong.
Back in 2002, a 12-year-old from Cheshire called Jennifer Pike was named BBC Young Musician of the Year. She won the competition playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor on a Stradivarius borrowed from the Royal Academy of Music, one of an estimated 550 such instruments still in existence.
