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Artist Pension Trust (APT) is an investment vehicle specializing in contemporary art, which aims to provide financial security and international exposure to selected artists chosen by its international curatorial team. It has the largest global collection of contemporary art, comprising 10,000 artworks from 2,000 artists in 75 countries, and growing by more than 2,000 each year. As of November 2013, total of 40,000 artworks have been committed to APT by 2,000 artists. In estimating the value of the collection, APT claims its worth to be more than $US100 million and projects annual appreciation of 17%. The international curatorial team consists of over 100 art professionals with experience in identifying artists with high potential of commercial success and in supporting them in the early and mid-stages of their careers. Artworks from the APT collection have been used to curate exhibitions for museums including the MoMA, Tate Modern, Hirshhorn Museum, as well as for art venues such as the Venice Biennale, Art Basel, Documenta and Manifesta. ==History== In 2004, a company named MutualArt has launched the Artist Pension Trust as the first pension program for visual contemporary artists. It was founded by businessman Moti Shniberg, Hebrew University business professor and leading academic and writer in business administration and finance,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=The impact of dividend policy on the valuation of equity, debt and credit risk )〕 Dan Galai, and David A. Ross, former director of the Whitney Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. APT started with eight regional trusts and subsequently launched a global trust, APT Global One, with a total of 628 artists. APT Global One was designed for optimal risk diversification. After the first year, Artist Pension Trust owned the collection of approximately 65 artworks created by artists in the New York branch, including Jules de Balincourt, William Cordova, Anthony Goicolea, and Aida Ruilova. Currently, APT has several location of the APT trusts in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, London, Dubai, Beijing, Mumbai, Mexico City, APT Global One.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Artist talk: Acting Out of Nothingness: from the APT Collection )〕 In 2012, APT accelerated expansion into Asia in partnership with Simon Murray & Company, a pan-Asian investment fund management firm. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Artist Pension Trust」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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