HNW & Family Office
How to Choose a Wealth Manager or RIA
A guide to choosing a financial advisor: fiduciary RIA vs broker, fee-only vs commission, credentials, the questions to ask, and the red flags to avoid.
Features & Analysis
Long-Form Research on the Art Market
Deeply reported features from the Masterworks Research Team, published weekly.
Portfolio & Investing Fundamentals
Risk Tolerance and Time Horizon: Building Around Your Constraints
Risk capacity, risk willingness, time horizon, and liquidity define the real boundaries of a portfolio. Here is how to size an allocation around them, art included.
Alternative Investments
Litigation Finance: Investing in Lawsuits as an Uncorrelated Asset
How commercial litigation finance works, why its returns are uncorrelated with public markets, the risks, and how individual investors can access it.
Art as an Investment
What Is Private Equity? How It Works and How to Invest
A plain explainer of private equity: buyouts vs growth equity, LP and GP fund structure, capital calls, the J-curve, IRR vs MOIC, returns, and access routes.
Art as an Investment
Charitable Remainder Trusts and Other Giving Vehicles
How charitable remainder trusts, charitable lead trusts, donor-advised funds, and private foundations work, and why appreciated assets like art are tax-efficient gifts.
Art as an Investment
Generational Wealth: How Families Build and Keep It
How families build, preserve, and transfer generational wealth, why most fortunes fade by the third generation, and the structures and assets that beat the curse.
Art as an Investment
Real Estate as an Alternative Investment: REITs, Syndications, and Private Funds
How real estate works as an alternative: public REITs, syndications, private funds, and interval funds, with returns, leverage, inflation linkage, and access vehicles.
Art as an Investment
What Is a Family Office? A Plain-English Guide
A plain-English guide to family offices: what they are, single vs multi-family, what they do, the net worth where one makes sense, and the alternatives tilt.
Art as an Investment
What Is Private Credit? The Fastest-Growing Alternative Asset Class
Private credit is non-bank lending to companies, now a roughly $3 trillion market. We explain how direct lending works, why it boomed after 2022, the yields, the risks, and how art-secured lending fits in.
Art as an Investment
Fauvism: Matisse, Color, and an Underrated Collecting Category
Fauvism lasted three years but its market value concentrated in Matisse. Why a tiny, scarce category can still matter to investors.
Art as an Investment
Carried Interest Explained: How Fund Managers Get Paid
Carried interest is the share of fund profits a manager keeps, usually 20% above an 8% hurdle. How the waterfall, catch-up, taxes, and alignment work.
Opinions & Explainers
Withdrawn Lots: What Removal Before Sale Tells You About Seller Confidence
A withdrawn lot is pulled from auction before bidding starts. Here is what removal signals about seller confidence, guarantees, and market conditions.