Art & Passion Assets
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Diamonds nobody owned: the SEC sues Lugano's founder, and names three family trusts
On 31 August 2026 the SEC filed fraud charges against Mordechai Ferder, founder of Lugano Diamonds, over investment contracts in stones the firm never bought. Three of his family trusts are named as relief defendants.
Opinion
Why today's art market rewards conviction, not headlines
Headlines keep celebrating record prices, but beneath them the market has become sharply selective. Thomas Reinshagen, an independent art adviser in Zurich, on the discipline that now separates lasting collections from expensive ones.
27 August 2026
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