Baucom: Art fund sees immediate 20-30% value bumps before capital deployment
Claire Baucom · Can You Really Make Money Investing in Art? · Mar 16, 2026 · at 46:09
Claire Baucom, co-founder of Clear Art Reserve, explains their art acquisition strategy and expected baseline investment returns to host Paul Mark Morris.
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“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 manner. So the investors already have that rate of return under their belt.”
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