Where do the rich "hide" their money?

2023-03-30 10:19:42Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA Në FOTO: GEORGE KARAGIANNIS

Where do the rich "hide" their money?

The super rich of the planet, in order to escape inflation and preserve the value of their assets, buy rare and very expensive objects, which they hide in nuclear shelters.

At an old nuclear shelter in Switzerland, a specialized transport company unloads a container.

The area is monitored by guards and armed police while experts direct the machine operators to lower the container with the utmost care. The process is overseen from afar by a wealthy businessman.

What can the container contain?

In times of rising inflation, the most financially powerful people on the planet focus all their attention on protecting their assets. And if the saying "cash is king" is what they follow in most of their activities, there are times when they try to 'get rid' of cash, turning it into something that will increase the value of their property.

The easy solution is to invest in stocks, bonds and real estate markets. However, in the case of the super-rich, the asset managers who manage their assets design investment strategies that aim to "protect" the assets in any scenario. Strategies that are redefined and changed, given the circumstances, although the basic diversification of their positions does not change.

Return to Switzerland's armored bunker. Which is certainly not the only one. Dozens of nuclear shelters or specially made underground armored structures, the so-called bunkers of the end of the world of billionaires, in countries such as the USA, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Germany, France, but also Greece, serve as wealth warehouses. There, several tens of meters below the surface of the earth, the wealth tycoons protect their untold fortunes from inflation and any evil that may come.

In the bunker warehouses, where there are special systems for monitoring and maintaining the levels of humidity, light and even oxygen, the assets in which they have invested are kept.

Paintings, sculptures and other works of art, gold bars and other precious metals, rare cars, collections of all kinds that in many cases are considered "lost".

Shumë herë paratë përdoren për të blerë para të epokave të tjera që sot kanë vlerë kolektive! Ato mund të shihen si  joreale, por këto “investime alternative” konsiderohen si një domosdoshmëri absolute për çdo menaxher pasurie, veçanërisht kur synohet elita financiare.

Ekipet e specializuara të kompanive të mbrojtjes së aseteve monitorojnë tendencat e tregut dhe kërkojnë mundësinë e duhur për një marrëveshje që do të ruajë vlerën pavarësisht nga ngjarjet.

Mendoni se një pikturë nuk mund të jetë investim?

Merrni, për shembull, performancën e çmimeve të artit nga Jean-Michel Basquiat, një artist afrikano-amerikan që vdiq nga një mbidozë heroine në moshën 27-vjeçare në vitin 1988, pas një karriere të shkurtër. Në vitet ’80, pikturat e tij shiteshin për 22 dollarë, por shumë shpejt disa njerëz e panë talentin dhe më shumë menduan se do të ishin një investim i mirë. Vlerësimi i cili vazhdon.

Pothuajse tradicionalisht, në vitet e krizës, makinat ofrojnë fitimet më të mëdha. Jo makinat e përditshme, utilitare të qytetit, por edicionet koleksioniste që sa më të rralla të jenë aq më të shtrenjta i shesin.

This type of investment is also preferred by some of the most powerful people on the planet, including Greek ship owners, who keep unique cars in very secret places, in the basements of Attica or foreign countries, such as Switzerland and Germany, worth more more than a fortune.

The case of the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Gulëing is typical. In the early 00s, one such forgotten prototype was bought for several tens of thousands of euros by a businessman who found it in a flooded basement in northern Greece. The car underwent an extensive restoration and was sold to a German billionaire for over $1 million./ Protothema


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