A Very Short Introduction To Philatelic Investing

• Believe it or not, our company has specialised in this proven alternative commodity longer than any other Philatelic house.
• Ours is a more old-fashioned approach to investing, we have never needed to produce fancy colour brochures or continually advertise our services to those really in the know.

"Knowledge is Power" "Resources are King"

• We are aware that long-term professional investors require the most important holding of these at their fingertips combined with an unmatched specialist knowledge and friendly completely confidential un-biased advice. Our Unique position enables us to directly provide this service and commodity for high gain, historically low risk investment purposes, and over the last fifty years, have managed many tens of millions of pounds for financial institutions, funds and high nett worth individuals.
• Our numerous services include the building and management of important rare stamp portfolios for profit.
• We suggest a minimum investment of £5,000 and, for sole private investors would recommend a maximum exposure of no more than £2M which historically will return 7% to 10% per annum. We can also provide offshore secure storage and insurance should this be required

THE FACTS:

• Mean average percentage yearly growth 13.2% (source Investors Chronicle Aug 08)
• British Commonwealth stamps have shown an overall increase of 112% over the last 8 years.
• Great Britain Stamps have shown an annual increase of 86.4% over the last 8 years.
• Over the past decade, stamps have outperformed the FTSE 100 index, the British housing market and even gold, and is showing an annual increase of 39 per cent, taking the cumulative increase over the past ten years to about 250 per cent. (source Times Aug 08)
• Rare Stamps are the most portable, un-detectable international instruments of currency known to man and, by weight are the most valuable commodity in the World.
• There are currently circa. fifty-two million collectors worldwide and that figure is continually rising.
• Stamp collecting is one of the oldest pastimes, and has been so for over 165 years.
• Stamp collecting is steadily growing worldwide and we have seen significant new activity from the Middle East and Russia.
• The hobby itself and the demand for quality rare stamps continues to rise as the recent financial crisis has led investors to look towards alternative investments resulting in premium examples of this commodity becoming scarcer on a daily basis, creating a higher demand and associated increasing values.
• Unlike property and the financial markets which continue to suffer greatly due to recent turbulent times, rare stamps have consistently out-performed any of these more 'pedestrian' investments and are proven extremely stable as they exist in low quantities and prices are supported by millions of collectors worldwide.
• Rare stamps have shown steady growth during each five year forecast between 1960-2008.

Please contact us in strict confidence by telephone (00 44 (0)1483 503335) or email peter@brandonstamps.com should you require any further information on the many services we can provide.