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Creative and systematic work to expand human knowledge. We analyze and organize data to gain insights and uncover truth with minimal bias and maximum clarity.
Strategic planning, investing, and managing money in personal, corporate, and public sectors. Empowering businesses with financial intelligence and tools.
Secure and professional bidding platforms for rare assets, antiques, and bullion. Global exposure, expert curation, and verified provenance.
Comprehensive research services for artifacts, art, and historical items
Research is a creative and systematic process undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge. It involves the collection, organization, and analysis of evidence to deepen understanding of a subject, with particular care taken to identify and control sources of bias and error.
These activities include accounting for and minimizing biases, replicating experiments or procedures, and expanding upon prior work in the field. A research project may validate previous findings or explore new directions.
Research methodologies vary across disciplines, from the humanities and social sciences to natural and applied sciences. Forms of research include:
A researcher at Novatis is someone who conducts investigations to uncover new information or reach deeper understanding. Our team includes experts in:
Strategic financial management for collectors, investors, and institutions
Finance refers to both the management of monetary resources and the academic study of money, currency, assets, and liabilities. As a discipline, it focuses on the planning, organizing, leading, and controlling of financial resources to achieve strategic goals.
The field is typically divided into three main branches:
In modern financial systems, assets such as currencies, loans, bonds, shares, and derivatives are traded or managed to increase value and reduce risk. Instruments can be banked, insured, or invested to achieve specific financial objectives.
Because of its broad scope, finance includes a variety of subfields:
Finance also overlaps with disciplines such as mathematical finance, financial engineering, financial technology, and financial law. These are critical to modern business practices and accounting systems.
Historically, finance evolved alongside money. Ancient civilizations practiced basic finance through trade, banking, and accounting. The global financial system took shape in the late 19th century, and by the mid-20th century, finance emerged as a separate academic field from economics.
Professional auction services for rare and valuable items
An auction is typically a process of buying and selling goods or services through bidding. Items are offered up for bids, and then sold to the highest bidder (or bought from the lowest bidder in some cases). While this is the most common form, there are several variations depending on the type and context of auction.
The economic theory that analyzes different auction types and bidder behavior is known as auction theory. Among the types of auctions, the open ascending price auction—where participants publicly place incrementally higher bids—is the most widely used form throughout history.
Auctions are widely applied in various industries and contexts, including:
Auctions have a long history dating back to at least 500 BC. According to the historian Herodotus, in Babylon, auctions were held annually for the purpose of marriage. Women were auctioned based on beauty, with forward auctions for attractive maidens and reverse auctions (where dowries were paid) for others.
Ancient Greece, Hellenistic societies, and Rome also conducted auctions. During the Roman Empire, soldiers would auction off the spoils of war by placing a spear in the ground to signify the sale location. Slaves and other assets were often auctioned in public forums, with proceeds going toward military efforts.
Following the fall of the Roman Empire, the popularity of auctions declined in Europe until the 18th century. Meanwhile, in China, auctions were held as early as the 7th century AD—often to sell the possessions of deceased Buddhist monks.
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Initial assessment and discussion of your needs and objectives.
Comprehensive analysis and authentication of items or financial needs.
Development of customized approach and action plan.
Implementation and management of the agreed-upon services.