This is a special edition of Macrovoises with hedge fund manager Eric Townsend.

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Now for this special edition of Macrovoises, here's hedge fund manager Eric Townsend.

Macrovoises Spotlight episode number three was recorded on May 10, 2020.

I'm Eric Townsend.

Today's topic is fine art investing.

Joining me is Scott Lynn, founder and CEO of Masterworks.

Scott, it's great to have you on the program.

Frankly, this is one asset class that I don't know very much about.

I see a lot of really big name hedge fund managers and people in finance are clearly

moving into major purchases in fine art.

I'm guessing that that's driven by the same reason that the same people are looking at

gold and real estate, which is they want hard assets that are independent of the financial

system.

But you're the expert on this.

Why don't you tell us in your own words, why fine art?

Why is this suddenly becoming so popular with so many big names in finance?

Sure.

Thanks for having me, Eric.

So I think there's two things about art as an asset class that people tend to gravitate

towards.

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