Alternative Assets Index 2018, in association with Borro Private Finance

Tom Hartley Jnr’s eponymous dealership, which recently won the coveted Queen’s Award for international trade, is one of very few to own the stock it sells. ‘We take the risk, and it gives our clients peace of mind that we’ve done our due diligence on the car before,’ he says.

Suzanne Gyorgy leads the art finance and advisory team of Citi Private Bank, one of the first private banks to explore the concept of art as collateral. The fine arts graduate joined the bank in 1999 after spells at the Morris Museum and PaineWebber Gallery.

Since its founding in 2007, Cult Wines has grown in double digits year-on-year. The premise is simple, says founder and MD Tom Gearing: to exploit the full potential of wine investment for its clientele.

Thomas Gibson is ‘officially’ retired from running Thomas Gibson Fine Art, the gallery he founded in 1969 at the age of 26. With son Hugh in charge, Gibson works in an advisory capacity and has counted some of the world’s most prominent institutions and collectors among his clientele.