Superhobby Investing

Jacket text for Superhobby Investing

A beginner's guide to putting your money in alternative areas

What is 'superhobby investing'?

Superhobby Investing is at the intersection of investing, collecting and other serious hobbies. It's about examining how you can ratchet up a hobby or a collecting passion into an investment option.

If you are a stock market investor, this book will show how you can use the tangible assets that are normally part and parcel of collecting as a means of diversifying your portfolio. Or maybe you already own, or have inherited, some superhobby assets - a stamp collection or a set of first editions, say - but never thought of them as potential investments.

Using this book, you can find out how to assess their value and how to convert them into a durable and profitable portfolio. This book shows you why developing one or more superhobbies can be a good idea, and looks at various forms this tangible asset investing can take.

In each case the book explains how the markets operate, what the risks are, what returns can be expected, and what knowledge and skills are required. Each asset profile includes:

- The history of investment in the asset
- The basic characteristics and features of the market
- The examination of long term returns, with detailed figures
- The tax angles (if applicable)
- The major issues
- How to buy and sell, including major dealers and auctioneers
- Sources of information

Chapter headings for Superhobby Investing

About the Author
Acknowledgements

- Superhobbies - a new investment option
- Antiques
- Art
- Banknotes and Scripophily
- Books
- Classic Cars
- Coins
- Film and Theatre
- Forestry
- Gold
- Stamps
- Whisky
- Wine
- Auctions and Dealers

Postscript
Appendix

About Peter Temple

Peter Temple has been working in and writing about financial markets for the last 33 years. After an 18 year career in fund management and stockbroking, he became a full time writer in 1988. His articles appear in the Financial Times, Investors Chronicle and a range of other publications. He has written more than a dozen books about investing, mainly aimed at private investors.

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Reviews for Superhobby Investing

"If you share my view that the stockmarket is likely to go sideways and the residential property market will be lucky not to go backwards over the next year or so, you might well be scratching your head about where to put your money.

Enter Peter Temple - who has been working in and writing about financial markets for over 30 years - and his very timely book on Alternative Investments - what they are, how much you might expect to make and where to bone up on anything from Chinese bond certificates to Impressionist paintings to buying your own forest.

If you already know the alternative investment that you want to specialise in then you might find Superhobby Investing's chapter on each area rather superficial. But if you haven't yet decided between rare malt whiskies or first editions of Just William books then this part history, part how-to book is an excellent starting point.....and a fascinating and well-written read to boot."

- Tom Stevenson, editor Hemscott.net