The high volatility of traditional markets, combined with their unpredictability of performance, has pushed large numbers of international investors to increasingly diversify their portfolio into luxury assets.
Some distillates have generated a profit of 400% in just five years
Among the latter, investments in fine spirits are certainly distinguished, both for their high performance and for the consolidated market stability, as well as for the very low availability of these labels worldwide.
With a history of performance that is around 30% of average annual return, investment in spirits is becoming more and more, one of the most sought-after forms of financial diversification, not only for primary reasons of protection and preservation of one’s capital, but also and above all for the high returns it is able to offer.
According to data from Liv-Ex, the total trade in distillates in 2022 is already greater than the value of all trade from 2016 to 2020.
Moreover, the previous pandemic situation has done nothing but significantly accelerate the investment in fine distillates and what is expected for the future, can only be a continuous upward trend.
According to the Whisky highland investment grade scotch index, the historical data of whisky investment is excellent. In fact, some distillates have generated a profit of 400% in just five years. Unlike gold which in the same period has only increased by 53%.
The high increase in value is mainly due to the increase in demand, thanks to the increasingly insatiable thirst of the Asian market, linked above all to the birth of small distilleries all over the world; it is no coincidence that a solution considered by many investors has been to focus on spirits of emerging distilleries.
In addition to the great classics Macallan and Ardbeg, new products of emerging distilleries from various countries such as Japan and Ireland are finding an increasingly high approval from investors around the world, with an offer of the same that becomes increasingly scarce.
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