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If one wanted to invest in this($100-$1000's - not millions), what entry points would they have?
by sslayer 11y ago
If one wanted to invest in this($100-$1000's - not millions), what entry points would they have?
- creshal 11y agoMutual funds of some sort, I'd guess. Assuming there are any.
- sidko 11y agoAre you aware of any publicly traded company operating in this field? If not, then there won't be any mutual funds. This area seems too new for mutual funds.
- zardo 11y agoMutual funds can hold private assets. Fidelity holds SpaceX assets in several funds. http://blog.sfgate.com/pender/2015/03/25/see-which-fidelity-funds-invested-in-spacex/ http://blog.sfgate.com/pender/2015/03/25/see-which-fidelity-... That said, I don't think you can get your hands on Planetary Resources stock.
- ucaetano 11y agoMutual funds invest in private equity and venture capital funds and even directly into startups, such as Fidelity: http://recode.net/2015/11/10/one-of-snapchats-latest-investors-just-downgraded-its-valuation-by-25-percent/ http://recode.net/2015/11/10/one-of-snapchats-latest-investo...
- waterlesscloud 11y agoGet your ass to work. What other "entry point" do you truly expect for emerging worlds? #kidstoday
- clock_tower 11y ago> What other "entry point" do you truly expect for emerging worlds? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint-stock_company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint-stock_company
- Retric 11y agoProfitable space mining is easily 100+ years out. So, IMO your best bet is to invest in an existing company you expect to get into the field in the long term. PS: We could extract gold from sea water, and there is a lot of gold in the sea. That does not mean it's a good investment.
- mbroshi 11y agoSimple supply and demand: Sell commodity futures. If there really are huge influxes of an existing scarce resource on the horizon (the article mentions platinum), prices will drop.
- ChuckMcM 11y agoPer my other comment in this thread, you could perhaps provide funding for researcher studying mining techniques in exchange for a partial interest in any patents that arose out of that work. But beyond that I don't think there is a way to participate yet as an outside investor, lots of ways to participate if you're just jumping in and doing the work yourself right? Perhaps you could invest a few thousand in an S&P500 ETF with instructions to use the account value to buy into the first space mining company to go public? Might take awhile but you're investment would grow while it was waiting to be put to work.