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Disappearing Castlestone Collection of Modern Art

22, August 2016 by Wilfred Ling 1 Comment

Castlestone Collection of Modern ArtThe Castlestone Collection of Modern Art fund was launched in March 2009.  It invested in a diversified collection of museum-quality Post-War Art. The art pieces were non-producing/deceased artists with established secondary markets (Christie’s/Sotheby’s). This fund was only offered to Accredited Investors.

The Castlestone Collection of Modern Art was an open-ended mutual fund, 8-year investment period with monthly liquidity and domiciled in the BVI. Since it is an 8 years period, it means the fund would ‘mature’ in 2017.

Somewhere in 2010 or 2011, I was asked whether my rich clients would like to buy this fund. I did not sell this fund although I must admit that I was quite excited about this unusual investment.

Here was the performance of the fund below.

Castlestone Collection of Modern Art

Note that there was no pricing since 30 December 2011. The fund house’s representative also stopped mentioning about this fund after that period.  Its website http://www.collectionofmodernart.co.uk/ is no longer in existence although Castlestone itself is still operational.

I personally do not know what happened to the fund although Wikipedia states that Castlestone was investigated by the FSA and BVI’s Financial Services Commission in years 2011 and 2012 respectively.

I assumed the fund just ‘died’.

Conclusions

A fund sudden ‘disappearance’ is unheard off in the retail investment circle. But since this fund is only offered to Accredited Investor, I guess anything goes.

For Accredited Investors, watch your money closely as it could suddenly disappear.

If you are from Castlestone, would appreciate you leave a comment below to indicate what happened to the fund. You guys need to work on your communication to update everybody!

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  1. xyz says

    22, August 2016 at 7:30 pm

    http://www.investmentweek.co.uk/investment-week/news/2128928/castlestone-administrator-prepares-sell-assets

    Another fly-by-night screw-you up-yours you-die-your-biz white collar setup web of shenanigans. There’s Castlestone Mgmt Ltd which is apparently the asset manager of the Modern Art Fund; there’s also Castlestone Inc and Castlestone EU — separate & different legal corporate entities, but you can bet your ass they are all run by the same bunch of pricks.

    Apparently the so-called modern art pieces were simply displayed & kept in the office of Castlestone Mgmt Ltd (CML), but were taken away by people claiming to be from Castlestone Inc.

    CML has been under liquidation and administration since Oct 2011. In fact, CML had been in trouble with the UK financial authorities since early 2011 (and probably having complains even earlier). CML was raided by UK’s FSA in July and basically gone case from then as the pricks running Castlestone realised the game was up.

    Modern Art Fund was (is?) one of the major creditors of CML (!!! Imagine a normal UT or ETF becoming a creditor of the asset mgmt. company that was supposed to be running the UT/ETF in the 1st place and supposed to have fiduciary duties to manage the monies according to the mandate of the investment process contract & prospectus !!!)

    The administrators had said that CML has NO HOPE of repaying it’s creditors, including the Modern Art Fund.

    All these happened in 2011, so by now (2016) most likely everything will have turned to dust liao. The administrator would also have moved on, as Castlestone no longer have money to retain its services.

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