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This also peaked by interest, as well as the general concept or royalty investing. But so far, I haven't found anything that seems worth it. First, none of the
by quags 4y ago
This also peaked by interest, as well as the general concept or royalty investing. But so far, I haven't found anything that seems worth it. First, none of the royalty are guaranteed, so you could buy something that may or may not get the same returns year in and year out. Some of the royalties are small slices of certain songs, like a small writer credit - so you are not clear on exactly what is being bought with out more research. As an example there have been songs like jcole + kanye west workout / workout plan. There were a bunch of songs, three may be considered well known, but you are getting a small slice from one writer in that case. So you really need to dive into what is being bought. Best case I can see on the songs is that maybe one day some movie or tv show uses the music and you get a nice bump in earnings, or there is some popular cover in the future. 100k a year royalties, not guaranteed might make sense at a million which gets you a 10% return which is decent, but this trades more like a bond. Your resale may not be great if interest wanes in this royalty exchange and you can get more stable returns in the bond market in vanguard (trading actual bonds not etf's). I like to invest in what I understand and what is simple, this just so far is not. I do use Listerine zero (less intense / alcohol free) which I'm not sure counds in this stream. I haven't bought the original in a long time, since it has no flouride.
- prometheus76 4y ago"This has also piqued my interest..."
- denton-scratch 4y ago"Peaked my interest": caused my interest to increase to a high point before declining. "Piqued my interest": aroused or provoked my interest.
- prometheus76 4y agoI hate to use reddit as a resource, but there's a good discussion here about why "peaked my interest" doesn't make grammatical sense. "Peaked" is not a transitive verb. "Peaked my interest" is a bastardization of the original because people were not familiar with the word "piqued" and guessed at how it was spelled when they heard it. https://www.reddit.com/r/grammar/comments/1n7ezp/why_is_piqued_my_interest_the_correct_phrase_i/ https://www.reddit.com/r/grammar/comments/1n7ezp/why_is_piqu...
- denton-scratch 4y agoI agree that "peaked" is intransitive! I was trying to parse it naively, to expose the silliness (i.e. for a laugh). Should have chucked in a smiley.
- prometheus76 4y agoI missed your subtlety because it's still quite early where I live.
- jmbrook 4y agoInteresting angle there for a form of 'insider trading' - people in tv/film industry could easily buy this up and slide their assets into their own creations. What I don't quite get is why the royalty payers don't start buying as well, feels like an easy way of boosting profits (assuming they can finance at a lower rate)
- bombcar 4y agoFor the songs I assume because they produce fewer and fewer royalties over time, and the only ones for sale are those that aren’t worth that much. But it would be amusing to get that Shrek set heh.