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  • In times of economic uncertainty, with rising interest rates and inflation, alternative investments outside of traditional assets such as stocks or cash, are increasingly popular with the world's rich and wealthy. Research by the Wealth Enhancement Group highlights US investors highlights a particular growing interest in classic cars and exceptional - mostly fancy colored - diamonds among high-net-worth individuals, with the latter taking up 8th position in the top 10 of alternative investment.

  • Fintech company Luxus this week launched a platform where it plans to offer investment grade diamonds, fractionalized into smaller shares, modeled after fractionalized investing models such as the art platform Masterworks. The first diamond the company wants to list is an Argyle pink valued at US$400k, divided into 2,000 shares of US$200 each, pending SEC approval this month. Luxus gathered US$2.5m in seed money last summer and is the brainchild of former Blackstone managing director Dana Auslander and luxury PR specialist Gretchen Gunlocke Fenton.