Brexit!
What just happened? On Thursday 23 June, the UK voted to leave the European Union. Watching the late-night voting returns on the various business channels was like watching a car…
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Ever Moving Markets
In early 2014 we felt the market for the Enzo-era Italian exotics was peaking and so between April and Sept., of 2014 we sold my non-Factory Comp Daytona s/n 14049…
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The Market Correction
Collectable Ferraris, like all commodities, trade on a world-wide market. That market has doubled and doubled again in only five years, a classical bubble run-up. Although some will disagree, we…
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The Generational Shift
The Baby-Boomers, now in their 60s, are moving on The Collectable Ferrari market, like any commodities market, shifts with global socio-economics, demographics and time. Our long term clients are baby-boomers,…
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Ferrari Enters the Marchionne-Era
We begin with a history lesson: Over the last seventy years Ferraris have evolved through four distinctive eras, the rapid evolution of the Enzo Ferrari era, the mass-market production increases…
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Auction House One-Upmanship
The auction house arms race Every year the various auction houses at Monterey compete for the most spectacular headline car, the highest price, the most market credibility. Until a few…
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Collectable Ferraris, 1031 Tax Trades* & the I.R.S.
Let the good times roll The 10 May RM Auction in Monaco again raised the price bar to all new price levels with RM selling over 41.m €uro ($56m) in…
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How Many 599 SA Apertas
Every column has its inspiration and this column is the response to one of the oft-repeated questions that crosses my desk “Will the modern Ferraris, such as the Scuderia, the…
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The Every-Day Exotic
Ferrari’s four-seat V12 models may not have the same cachet as its two-seaters, but these 2+2s are no less worthy of the famed Prancing Horse badge. They are fast, exotic,…
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Revisiting Ferrari’s Cycle of Booms and Busts
Every two or three years I revisit the world’s economies as they have been, at best, volatile, with major changes in direction coming every few years, all of which affect…
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