Claire Baucom

Founding Steward & Curator, Clear Art Reserve · 1 appearance on the record.

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Clare Baukham is the founder of Clear Art Reserve, an art investment platform focusing on fine art as an alternative asset class. Previously a financial advisor and options trader, she also leads Clear Wealth Group as a wealth advisor for high-net-worth clients.

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The record, in short

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Assertion Supported

Baucom: Fine art values are completely uncorrelated with public markets

“Not at all correlated. So it is your alpha.”

Claire Baucom Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 13:19 Can You Really Make Money Investing in Art?

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What they said11 Episodes1

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Assertion Partly supported

Baucom: Fine art has beaten the S&P 500 over 25 years

“So with me, I found art is the safest way to do that because as you know, art has beat the S and P 500 for the last 25 years as well.”

Claire Baucom Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 12:52 Can You Really Make Money Investing in Art?

Assertion Supported

Baucom: Fine art values are completely uncorrelated with public markets

“Not at all correlated. So it is your alpha.”

Claire Baucom Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 13:19 Can You Really Make Money Investing in Art?

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Baucom: Art fund sees immediate 20-30% value bumps before capital deployment

“A lot of the pieces when we buy them, we immediately, because we have that information, They'll immediately be bumped up by 20, 30%. And that's just even before we've even deployed the capital out to whoever we're buying it from. So we usually will buy in that…”

Claire Baucom Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 46:09 Can You Really Make Money Investing in Art?

Disclosure

Baucom: Clear Art Reserve targets $10M to $100M monthly capital inflows

“Because we're having these conversations now, 10 and a hundred million dollars a month.”

Claire Baucom Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 9:19 Can You Really Make Money Investing in Art?

Disclosure

Baucom: Clear Art Reserve Is Not Registered with the SEC

“So we don't call it fund because we're not, the way we've structured it is we are not registered with in the States as SEC, the Ontario, like Ontario and Canadian securities commissions.”

Claire Baucom Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 17:34 Can You Really Make Money Investing in Art?

Disclosure

Baucom: Clear Art Reserve portfolio currently valued at $1.5M to $2M

“I believe we're in the 1.5 to two million at least present day.”

Claire Baucom Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 51:25 Can You Really Make Money Investing in Art?

Disclosure

Baucom: Clear Art Reserve takes approximately 10% of artwork sale upside

“Yeah, it'll be about 10% of the upside depending on the piece. Yeah. But yeah, call it 10. So, and I know hedge funds a lot of times, again, because I come from the hedge fund world, they'll take a 22, right? So, it could go to 20, but more likely on, it'll mo…”

Claire Baucom Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 57:04 Can You Really Make Money Investing in Art?

Assertion Partly supported

Baucom: Hugh Grant Sold an Andy Warhol Painting for $28 Million

“Hugh Grant bought a, he had a big regret. He bought a 2.5 million dollar Andy Warhol. And he said, I just, I didn't know what I was doing. I think he felt sick about it, he said in his interview. And, but five years later, that Warhol sold for twenty eight mil…”

Claire Baucom Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 20:43 Can You Really Make Money Investing in Art?

Disclosure

Baucom: Clear Art Reserve has not yet sold any artwork

“No. I'm not, I don't want to yet. We're too new and I, and they're honestly every piece that people want is because they're so desirable.”

Claire Baucom Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 47:16 Can You Really Make Money Investing in Art?

Disclosure

Baucom: Clear Art Reserve acquired a blue-chip artwork for $20,000

“We just acquired a piece of blue chip that is a smaller work and it's like 20,000.”

Claire Baucom Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 54:02 Can You Really Make Money Investing in Art?

Disclosure

Baucom: Clear Art Reserve charges a 1.5% annual management fee

“We take a one and a half percent fee per year, which basically pays for storage insurance any moving around of the pieces or anything.”

Claire Baucom Mar 16, 2026 ▶ 54:37 Can You Really Make Money Investing in Art?

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Can You Really Make Money Investing in Art?	Mar 16, 2026	30m

Claire Baucom

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