"Bowie Bonds"

ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_bond#Bowie_Bonds

Just stumbled across this. Pretty interesting concept that I’m sure some of you older guys around here can remember from back in the late nineties. Surprised they can’t garner enough investor interest these days to issue more of these. You’d think finding $50 - $100mm of investor money wouldn’t be too hard just for the novelty of owning a celebrity’s IP royalites.

Recently, I read that you can buy an interest in some pro athlete’s earnings.

^ You can get a really good return if you help get baseball players out of Cuba and into the major leagues, just ask Yasiel Puig’s “investors”.

^ Jose Abreu, too

As for Bowie Bonds…a picture is worth 1,000 words