Why a fine art insurance broker is worth finding early

I’m not a financial adviser and this isn’t insurance advice – I run a security company, not a brokerage. But I’ve sat in enough post-loss meetings over the past decade to notice a pattern: the collectors with the calmest claims process are almost always the ones who found a broker who actually knows fine art […]

What actually happens if you never revalue your collection

I sat in a sitting room off Domain Road in South Yarra a few months back, looking at a small Fred Williams the owner bought in 1998 and hadn’t had valued since. She wanted to know, quite reasonably, whether the insurer would simply refuse to pay if something happened to it. That question comes up […]