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- Title
FROM HOBBY TO INVESTMENT: The History and Rise of Trading Cards as a Tradable Asset Class.
- Authors
Huigens, Brent
- Abstract
The article discusses the emergence of trading cards as a valid alternative asset class. Topics include a brief history of trading cards as a popular type of collectors' items or collectibles, the development of market indices by investment-caliber trading card seller PWCC Marketplace to track and catalogue performance data for trading cards, and the growing number of people who are attracted to the idea of investing in trading card collectibles to diversify their portfolios.
- Subjects
TRADING cards as an investment; ALTERNATIVE investments; TRADING card collecting; COLLECTIBLE card games; INVESTMENTS; HISTORY
- Publication
Financial History, 2018, Issue 126, p32
- ISSN
1520-4723
- Publication type
Article