Active Management Investment Portfolios

With this option, you are able to invest with absolute flexibility. Using the strength of the Stanley Gibbons brand, you can utilise our specialist expertise in trading in rare stamps and signatures to achieve exceptional returns.

With a minimum investment of £10,000, you can buy individual items at any time; we take over the job of getting the best price in the market to maximise your returns when you want to sell.

The investor enters the portfolio at 90% of the retail price. Stanley Gibbons then re-offer the items at the full 100% (minimum) retail price on your behalf, splitting the profits 50/50 when the item is subsequently sold.

 This equates to a 5.5% (minimum) return if the items are sold in the first year.

Alternatively holding for a longer term, allowing the market to appreciate further, can offer exceptional returns - see below. We will provide you with annual valuations so that you can keep track of how your capital is growing in value. Once you reach a valuation you are happy with, simply instruct us to sell on your behalf.

How it can work for you:

TWO MONTH RETURN!  Henry VIII signed document purchased by client for £40,000 in October 2007. Sold two months later for £47,500. Investment return net after Stanley Gibbons commission of 9.375%

THREE YEAR RETURN! SG132 £1 brown-lilac, one of five known examples, sold by Stanley Gibbons in 2004 for £65,000. The item was sold three years later for £125,000. Investment return after three years net after Stanley Gibbons commission 46.1%.