Tag: Investment

  • The beauty of buying time

    The beauty of buying time

    This article was first published in the ‘Collector’s Corner’, Sunday Business Post, Feb 2000 under the title ‘Timely reminders’, and March 5th 2000, under the above title, ‘The beauty of buying time’ With the hullabaloo from the millennium celebrations and universal obsession with recording that moment now relegated to distant memory, it is worth looking…

  • Beauty can be profitable.

    Beauty can be profitable.

    This article first appeared in the February 2000, in the Sunday Business Post Considering the current activity within the equity markets, especially with technological stocks on the Nasdaq, it is easy to forget that long before the performance of firms like Microsoft, Iona and Baltimore Technologies were part of dinner party conversations, the profit motive…

  • If you go down to the woods today.

    If you go down to the woods today.

      This article was first published in Collectors Corner, Oct 1st, 2000 in the Sunday Business Post In case you hadn’t noticed from the masthead, today is the first of October. This is of no major consequence except for the fact that from now until the end of the year, we can expect to be…

  • Auction houses to pay for collusion

    Auction houses to pay for collusion

    This article was first published in the Sunday Business Post, October 1st 2000 News was emerging last week of a possible denouement to the long running price fixing dispute between the two leviathans of the fine art auctioneering  world, Sotheby’s and Christie’s It now appears that both firms will be paying out over $500 million…

  • Books for pleasure and profit.

    Books for pleasure and profit.

    This article first appeared in the Collector’s Corner of the Sunday Business Post on 20 February 2000 Book collecting has for years inhabited an inaccessible world of dark, musty shops open only to the erudite and the initiated This esoteric image may have been true once. but today it is a myth. The business is…