The Deep Water Recovery Funds Deep Water Recoveries Opportunity Fund The Deep Water Recoveries Opportunity Fund, which is phase 4 of the Igara Wreck Salvage operation, carries an opportunity for investors to return 40% on their original investment over the next 6-12 months. This is not a profit share scenario but a fixed return; the company running this, who have had over 30 successful years in the salvage business, have already recovered half the cargo as the wreck is only 42 meters down with good visibility,with this being the last phase. This is a fantastic opportunity to realise an excellent return over what is a fairly short period of time. And of course, as the wreck has already been located and worked on previously, then you should be strongly considering this as a part of your short term investment strategy.
In 1973 the IGARA, a massive 134,000dwt, 300m long and 40m wide bulk carrier, sank, setting a record for being the largest marine insurance loss ever in the world at that time, filled with 90,000mt of iron ore. At the time the ore was not worth salvaging but by 2005 its price had risen to an attractive level. ICRL (International Cargo Recoveries Limited), a BVI-based salvage management company recognized this value and contacted the insurers and acquired the legal rights to the ore and the salvage rights to the hull. In 2005/2006 ICRL contracted Deep Water Recoveries (S) Pte Ltd ("DWR") to recover the ore. DWR recovered all the ore accessible to big grabs (60,000mt) and the operation grossed US$2.5m.
ICRL has recently recontracted DWR to revisit the wreck and recover the hull and the remaining ore. Due to spillage during the hull cutting, not all the theoretical 30,000mt remaining can be recovered. DWR expects to retrieve 15,000mt. This has a current market value of approximately US$645,000.
The hull contains an estimated 11,000mt of steel and DWR plans to refloat it, tow it ashore, cut it up and sell it for scrap, realizing around US$200/mt or US$2.2 million for the entire hull. The anticipated gross income of the six-month Project is thus US$2.8m but as they already know the location of the wreck, the hardest part of any salvage operation, this last opportunity is not profit-share based but fixed return; this is unique.
In order to raise capital for this project, DWR is now making available a limited number of shares on a first come-first served basis. The terms for investment in this project are as follows:

• Total number of shares on offer for sale: 30
• Price per share: USD20,000
• Return per share on successful completion of the salvage: USD28,000
• Estimated time period to completion: 6-12 months
• Return on investment: 40%
• Equivalent annualised return on investment: 40-80%

The Managing Director of DWR has had extensive ship wreck search and salvage experience, having participated in two major international headline grabbing recovery operations, one in 1986 in the South China Sea, being the recovery of gold and porcelain from the 1746 Dutch ship, the Geldermalsen, and the second in 1993 when he personally located the British ship, Diana, which sank in March 1817 in the Straits of Malacca. She was carrying 24,000 pieces of blue and white Cheng dynasty porcelain from Canton to Madras when she hit an uncharted rock. He coordinated the salvage of 16 tons of porcelain in 1994 and oversaw the successful sale of the porcelain in 1995 by Christies at auction in Amsterdam. Information about the book, 'The Diana Adventure' can be found at the following website: 
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  There is a romantic notion about wine investment, which is that you can buy two cases of young wine so that, after a period of maturation, you can drink one and sell the other to finance the purchase of another two cases. This self-perpetuating policy may allow some wine enthusiasts to drink ‘for free'. The fallback position of those who hold this view is that if values don't rise as expected, they can always drink the whole stock. Sadly, though, it's not much of an investment policy. Interest in fine wine has been growing in the traditional markets of Europe and North America (which underpin the market for fine wines) and the emerging markets of Russia, India and China. The price of ‘blue-chip' wines will increase with demand, yet volume remains finite: from their harvest date, the quantity of these wines can only decrease - sometimes at remarkable rates - especially when a wine is ready to drink. While owning the physical stock of such blue-chip wines can give great returns, for investment purposes that's not enough in itself. The key questions remain ‘what to buy?', ‘where to store the wine?' and, most importantly, ‘how much to pay?' It seems that most wine investors to date have settled for so-called ‘investment advice' from wine merchants who offer to put investors' money into wines that the merchant already owns. This means that the investor pays the merchant's margin in the price. Such advice may be given honestly, but it doesn't ensure the best price is achieved - which is the key to investing in wine. Price determines the time it takes to make a decent return. A lot of great wines sit on lengthy price plateau during periods of maturation. Often, this has to do with whether or not the wines are being written about. For example, whilst the 2003 Bordeaux was being shipped to clients it was reassessed by the critics. The effect was an increase in sales of the 2003 vintage and subsequently an increase in price of those wines that critics felt were of greater quality than they had previously considered during their En-primeur (i.e. pre-bottling) stage. Therefore, from an investment point of view, why tie up your capital during a price plateau? However, what if you manage to acquire wines at such a high price and the next harvest produces an equal, or better, quality vintage? I believe securing a stock of great wines early will ultimately produce terrific returns. It is purely that the time scale is debatable. Investors have rarely been offered wine portfolios managed by truly independent fund managers and there have been very few pure wine investment funds, but some are now opening. And as wine becomes a viable asset class, more funds are likely to become available with variable risk levels. Liv-ex (the international wine exchange) has included its index of 100 investment grade wines on Bloomberg Indices (which quotes indices of the world's main investment markets). Therefore, whatever our individual feelings about wine are, financial markets are now being provided with performance data bringing fine wine into the public domain as a viable, and sustainable, vehicle for capital growth. This article was originally written by Peter Lunzer who is director and wine adviser for The Wine Investment Fund The content has been edited for inclusion purposes. The Fine Arts Fund The Fine Arts Fund is a unique fund of regulated, investment grade funds from the world of Fine Arts and Collectibles. With an independent advisory team overseeing a shortlist of the best investments of this nature in the world, ensuring the spread is optimised, returns are sought which add quality to any portfolio. The Fine Art Fund structure also helps with arts investment capacity issues, as well as with enhanced liquidity.\\ The Private Equity Opportunities Fund The Private Equities Opportunities Fund has two primary investment strategies: Private Equity including aggressive short term Merger & Acquisition activities "Best of the Best" Early Stage Opportunities Fund Investments There are thousands of private equity deals, and funds that focus on them, ranging from the very broad to the highly specialised, and from this myriad of choice our experienced independent advisory team run the Port Funds investment filtering process to gain access to only the very best, by sector, for our portfolio. Bearing in mind the sector focus strategy, our private equity fund will then broadly adopt a M&A strategy alongside an early stage fund based short-turnaround strategy. The fund also allows for a minor exposure to Direct Pre-IPO Investment Opportunities that pass stringent Due Diligence analysis. The Deep Water Recovery Fund Global Cast Network