Classic cars
Mechanical objects whose value rests on originality, history and a specific chassis number — with running costs that quietly…
No. 024Fine art
A market where the same object can be worth £5,000 or £5m depending on attribution, provenance and who else is in the room.
No. 025Fine wine
One of the few collectibles that is consumed, which is what makes the supply curve fall over time — traded in bonded warehou…
No. 039Luxury watches
A market that briefly behaved like a financial asset, corrected hard, and settled back into being about scarcity, waiting li…
No. 054Retired LEGO sets
Sealed plastic bricks that have outperformed several mainstream asset classes since the 1980s, for reasons that are unusuall…
No. 057Sneakers
Mass-produced footwear turned into a liquid, screen-traded market by limited releases and authentication platforms — then fl…
No. 060Trading cards
Printed cardboard whose value is set almost entirely by a numerical grade assigned by a third party — the purest example of …
No. 067Whisky casks
Buying maturing spirit in the barrel — a legitimate trade with a real market, and currently one of the most active vectors f…