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Historic Automobile Group International (HAGI™) is an independent investment research house and think-tank with specialised expertise in the rare classic motorcar sector.
The group has created benchmarks which track this alternative asset class accurately for the first time, using rigorous financial methodology usually associated with more traditional investments. The HAGI Index is published monthly in Octane magazine and referenced regularly in the financial media including FT.com, Wall Street Journal, the Economist and Welt online.
The purpose of this approach is to lend transparency to the sector and enable market participants to make informed decisions based on data driven fundamentals.
The group runs a proprietary database encompassing in excess of 100,000 actual transactions. Entries start from the date of the cars‘ manufacture and are updated on a daily basis. The data is collected from four major sources: Private contacts, marque specialists, dealers and auction results. HAGI consists of a unique team of professionals and advisors with a long standing track record in the fields of both finance and historic motorcars.
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Books by HAGI Publishing
Better than Gold, Investing in Historic Cars – By Dietrich Hatlapa, second edition. Revised, limited edition.
The book covers subjects such as value drivers, performance measurement and market history. The author illustrates historic price developments of various market sections, including those of collectors’ Ferrari, Porsche and Mercedes-Benz. For more details and to order please follow this link. You can also order by phone on +44 1 904 431 213 UK time zone, thank you.
Proprietary Research – The group continuously researches all the major Historic Car markets assessing trends in valuation and the supply / demand relationship. HAGI research members are thought leaders. With their skill sets, expertise and experience they analyse all aspects of the classic car- and related financial markets. In support of its research activities HAGI collects transaction data on a daily basis from marque specialists, dealers, auction houses and private contacts.
HAGI owns and runs the largest known verified database encompassing in excess of 100,000 actual transactions reaching as far back as the original sales price of the automobiles. HAGI uses this information and these skills to advise clients such as collectors, museums, financial institutions and other market participants in the classic car sector.
Benchmarking – HAGI is the first and only organisation to create, maintain and publish rigorously defined investment indices that track the Historic Car market as a whole together with several sub sectors.
HAGI has actively supported academic work in the sector and has co-operated with more than fifty universities for academic papers, including PHD theses.
HAGI Research results are featured in the world’s most prestigious financial publications as well as corporate media.
Historic Automobile Group International (HAGI) organises a number of events and conferences in Europe and the United States. These invitation-only events bring together collectors, investors, senior industry practitioners from the classic car industry and interested students for two information-packed days of keynote speeches, panel discussions and classic cars on display.
HAGI’s Value in the Classic Car Market (VCCM) conferences were held annually from 2014 to 2017 together with the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. The dates for 2018 are October 8-9th.
VCCMSA is a “first of its kind” conference in the Southern Hemisphere ran in conjunction with Concours South Africa in August 2017, Gary Player Country Club, Sun City. A second conference is planned in Sandown, Johannesburg this year for August 24-25th.
HAGI’s Classic Car Symposium Cologne (CCSC) was held in June 2015 and was organised together with The Cologne University of Applied Sciences in Cologne and Professor Frank Hermann of the Institute of Automotive Engineering, IFK.
Founding Partner for the VCCM and CCSC conference is Mercedes-Benz Classic, the classic department of Mercedes-Benz in Stuttgart, Germany.
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Historic Automobile Group International (HAGI) in association with the
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth would like to announce the 5th annual conference:
“Value in the Classic Car Market”
Hanover, NH, USA. October 8-9th 2018
With kind support of:
Founding Partner
For details and updates on this year´s VCCM conference click here .
Past conferences:
For sponsorship information please contact Katharine at HAGI: conference@historicautogroup.com.HAGI™Top Index is designed to measure the rare collector’s automobile market, ranging from pre-war to the new millenium. Due to the representative character of this group this index can be used as a valuable tool to monitor the price development for any single automobile or a collection. HAGI Top is an integral part of our overall index universe, it’s sub indices are HAGI F, HAGI P and HAGI Top ex F&P. HAGI-Top is weighted according to our estimate of surviving cars in the relevant models.
A monthly fact sheet for this index is available in the member’s area. To obtain a password please contact us with your details.
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The Mercedes-Benz Classic Index (HAGI MBCI) is designed to measure the historic Mercedes-Benz automobile market for models produced from the 1920s to the 1980s. Due to the representative character of this group this index can be used as a valuable tool to monitor the price development from any classic single Mercedes-Benz to an entire collection of this marque. HAGI MBCI is weighted according to our estimate of surviving cars in the relevant models.
A monthly fact sheet for this index is available in the member’s area. To obtain a password please contact us with your details.download the most recent report
HAGI™F Index is designed to measure the rare collector’s Ferrari automobile market, ranging from the 1950s to the new millenium. Due to the representative character of this group this index can be used as an ideal tool to monitor the price development from any rare single Ferrari to an entire collection of this marque. HAGI F is an integral part of our overall index universe, a sub index of HAGI Top. HAGI F is weighted according to our estimate of surviving cars in the relevant models.
A monthly fact sheet for this index is available in the member’s area. To obtain a password please contact us with your details.
download the most recent report
HAGI™P Index is designed to measure the rare collector‘s Porsche automobile market, ranging from the 1950s to the new millenium. Due to the representative character of this group this index can be used as a valuable tool to monitor the price development from any rare single Porsche to an entire collection of this marque. HAGI P is an integral part of our overall index universe, a sub index of HAGI Top. HAGI-P is weighted according to our estimate of surviving cars in the relevant models.
A monthly fact sheet for this index is available in the member‘s area. To obtain a password please contact us with your details.
download the most recent report
HAGI™Top ex P&F Index is designed to measure the rare collector’s automobile market outside the marques Ferrari and Porsche. The periods represented range from pre-war to the new millenium. Due to the representative character of this group this index can be used as a valuable tool to monitor the price development from many automobiles or for an entire collection. HAGI Top ex F&P Index is an integral part of our overall index universe. Together with HAGI F and HAGI P it makes up the HAGI Top Index. HAGI Top ex F&P is weighted according to our estimate of surviving cars in the relevant models.
A monthly fact sheet for this index is available in the member’s area. To obtain a password please contact us with your details.
download the most recent report
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