Comparative Performance
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Celebrity memorabilia and autographs have outperformed all other traditional forms of investment over the past 10 years
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Stanley Gibbons, through its subsidiary Fraser’s Autographs, has tracked autograph prices of 100 celebrities
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Between 1997-2007, the Fraser’s 100 Index has grown by 256%
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The table below shows the return on investing £10,000 in 9 different investment opportunities over the past 10 years
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Fraser’s 100 Index has demonstrated the highest return of all investments
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For example, the FTSE 100 only achieved a 30% growth between 1997-2007

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Furthermore, collectibles offer an attractive risk/return trade off because they have a low correlation with other major asset classes
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Alternative investment classes, in our case celebrity memorabilia & autographs, tend to avoid the systemic pressures of global economic markets