Whisky is becoming ?liquid gold?, reflecting its growing status as a collectible asset that appreciates strongly in value due to its rarity
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In an age of global economic uncertainty, alternative investments have become one of the most sought-after strategies by HNWIs in Hong Kong and Singapore. Since 2016, Knight Frank’s wealth consultancy division has tracked the rise of alternate asset classes or passion investments like art, classic cars, whiskey and watches and discovered that these niche collectibles were beating traditional investment vehicles like stocks and bonds.
?Faced with extreme market volatility and a prolonged global recession, investors are turning to alternative assets such as whisky to weather the storm,? Murray Holdgate, general partner, Rare Single Malts Performance ending 2018

One year
10 years

Rare whisky
40%
582%

Coins
12%
193%

Wine
9%
147%

Art
9%
158%

Watches
5%
173%

Cars
2%
158%

Furniture
1%
-32%

Coloured diamonds
0%
122%

Stamps
0%
189%

Jewellery
-5%
112%

The Collectibility of Whisky proven in Bonhams sale of Yamazaki 55-Year-Old (during a pandemic)
?Whisky is fast becoming ?liquid gold?, reflecting its growing status as a collectible asset that appreciates strongly in value due to its rarity,? said Murray Holdgate, a general partner at Rare Single Malts, a private equity whisky fund, that has begun capital r...