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Alternative Investing

  • Need Money? Score Big Cash for Fine Wine Friday, 1 Mar 2013 | 2:05 PM ET

    Bordeaux Cellars makes loans against the best wines in the world. The company hears from about ten potential borrowers a week, and so far, there have been no defaults.

  • Painting a Profit: 10-Year Boom Ahead for Art? Friday, 8 Feb 2013 | 7:52 AM ET
    Pablo Picasso's Femme pres d'une fenetre

    The art market is to experience a "10- year boom" according to an expert, as investors from China and the Middle East drive demand towards unprecedented levels.

  • Amid wrangling over how much money the European Union spends at a time of grinding austerity across the Continent, Martin Ehrenhauser, an Austrian member of the European Parliament, lobbed a sobering question this summer at the union’s Brussels bureaucracy: How many bottles of booze does it have stocked in its wine cellars, the New York Times reports.

  • Spain plans to offer residency permits to foreigners who buy houses priced at more than 160,000 euros ($203,845) as part of its efforts to revive a collapsed real estate market and divest itself of hundreds of thousands of unsold homes.

  • Sotheby's 'Impressionist' Auction  Thursday, 5 May 2011 | 11:55 AM ET

    Sotheby's held its first impressionist and modern art auction last night, but the season is getting a lousy start, reports CNBC's Bertha Coombs.

  • Alternative Investing: Race Horses   Tuesday, 15 Nov 2011 | 1:45 AM ET

    The Hon. Harry Herbert, chairman of Highclere Thoroughbred Racing, told CNBC, that investing in race horses is "a numbers game, just to spend a fortune on one horse you are taking a gigantic risk."

  • Is Now the Time to Invest in Fine Wine? Tuesday, 13 Mar 2012 | 10:06 AM ET

    2012 is the best time to invest in fine wine since 2009, according to wine broker Vin-X’s Jeremy Peacock.

  • Wide World of Investing Tuesday, 1 Nov 2011 | 10:27 AM ET

    Alternative investing may not be for everyone, but there's an entry point for almost anyone—and as popular cable TV programs illustrate every week, small fortunes can be found in attics, basements and, yes, storage rooms.

  • Hedge Funds for Everyone? Don’t Hold Your Breath Tuesday, 13 Mar 2012 | 7:25 AM ET

    Last year was a difficult year for the hedge fund industry, with returns down 6.4 percent, but the drop hasn’t stopped experienced professionals from moving away from big investment banks to set up their own firms.

  • Investing in Comics and Stamps   Tuesday, 6 Mar 2012 | 1:50 AM ET

    Stamps and comics can prove to be lucrative in terms of investment, CNBC's Steve Sedgwick went to find out more.

Alternative Investing: Real Estate

Coins, Stamps & Books

  • Bitcoin

    If you love edgy bets, the Bitcoin may be for you, but given its newness and volatility, the alternative currency used for Internet transactions has passionate fans and critics.

  • With precious metals prices soaring in recent years, both bullion and rare coins  have become a hot-ticket item among investors seeking to diversify their portfolio.

  • Along with baseball cards, comic books represent an important component of the collectibles market, and can prove to be quite profitable for collectors holding highly sought-after and rare items. The “Golden Age” of comic books spanned from the late 1930’s into the early 1950’s and introduced most of the superhero and adventure characters that have become billion-dollar brands today. Among the most expensive comics are the ones that tell the story of a superhero’s first adventures, but in order

    Along with baseball cards, comic books represent an important component of the collectibles market, and can prove to be quite profitable for collectors holding highly sought-after and rare items.

Jewelry & Clothing

Fine Art

Wine