Managing your investment

Taking care of your investments is as important as the investment itself. Managing your investment will entail one or more of the following activities.

• Display location and environment
• Storage location and environment
• Security and Insurance
• Showcases (framing and mounting)

Display location and environment. Depending on which type of art your investment is, you might want to have it displayed for your viewing pleasure. The location and the environment where you plan to display your investment will be very important. Art items are usually very delicate and sensitive to heat and light.

Storage location and environment. If you do not intent to have your investment displayed, where you store your investment must be appropriate for the type of art you have.

Security and Insurance. High value investments must be secured from physical threats as well as insured. Depending on the type of investment you have, insurance firms will probably cover it. However, there are specialized insurance firms which specifically cater to artistic investments.

Showcases. This includes frames for paintings and other such artistic items and showcases boxes for other items. specific showcases cater to specific items. Most of showcases also have built-in environment control.

We will delve more into this as we move along our journey.