Fashion on the wonderful and the calculation of the investment banking contributed to the revival of art collections.
Investing in art - perfectly normal thing in the world. Corporate collection of works of art or antiques emphasizes the status of the bank. In Russia, investment in non-core assets while a rare phenomenon. It is believed that along with Incombank love of Russian credit organizations to the arts has been long buried. But although the revival of the few, but quite correctly selected corporate collections in recent years shows the growing interest of bankers to art.
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