The trusted advisor serious collectors, institutions, and investors choose.
Matthew Rubinger Advisory provides private access, considered advice, and discreet execution for the most discerning collectors, institutions, and investors.
An Exceptional Set of 8 Leather Forever Star Bags in Exotic Skins & 18K Gold Hardware, Hermès, Christie’s Hong Kong 2016, Price realized: HK$ 2,460,000
A Five-Strand Natural Pearl & Diamond Necklace, Bhagat, Christie’s New York 2019: Maharajas & Mughal Magnificence, Price realized: $1,695,000
The Macallan 1926, 60 Year-Old, Michael Dillon, Christie’s London 2018, Price realized: £1,200,000
OUR SERVICES
Build, steward, and refine a collection whose value endures.
01 Collection Management
A serious collection evolves. As it does, each acquisition, omission, and sale shapes its character and long-term significance.
We work alongside discerning collectors and institutions to guide that evolution with judgment, discretion, and continuity. Our role spans acquisitions, valuation, authentication, care, monetization, and deaccession, whether a collection has been built over decades or arrived through inheritance.
Market conditions, collecting trends, provenance, and timing all influence long-term value. We help clients navigate those factors and determine when and how to realize value through private sale, auction, dealer placement, or asset-backed lending.
We have advised on seven- and eight-figure collections across Hermès, fine jewelry, fine art, design, wine, sports memorabilia, and rare manuscripts.
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Access to pieces that rarely come to market.
02 Private Sale
Each month, we present a tightly curated selection of important, expertly valued, and authenticated objects across luxury categories, chosen with judgment and market intelligence and offered confidentially to our collectors.
Offerings include rare Hermès Birkin and Kelly bags in exceptional skins and hardware, important Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry, museum-level couture, and notable works in design, fine art, and sports memorabilia.
We also source privately on behalf of clients through a global network of collectors, dealers, and institutions, providing access to pieces that would otherwise remain invisible to the market.
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Strategic guidance across the luxury and collector market.
03 Strategic Advisory
MRA advises institutions, investors, private equity firms, auction houses, galleries, marketplaces, and other businesses operating within the luxury and collector market. We are brought in when leaders need a clear understanding of both the business opportunity and how serious collectors are likely to respond.
Our work spans strategic advisory, market diligence, competitive analysis, growth assessment, management evaluation, and transaction support. We help clients identify opportunities, uncover risks, validate assumptions, and make informed decisions around investment, expansion, acquisitions, and long-term positioning.
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The MRA Difference
Great collections and great businesses are built with intention.
Expert Guidance
With two decades at the intersection of collecting and commerce, Matthew Rubinger Advisory (MRA) advises collectors, businesses, and investors who require the expertise to identify what matters, the access to source what others cannot, and the judgment to deploy capital with intention.
First-time buyers and established collectors alike are met with the same standard: informed, principled, discreet, and entirely in your corner.
That same rigor extends to the institutions shaping the market, auction houses, ecommerce platforms, galleries, and emerging ventures, who partner with MRA for commercial strategy grounded in deep market understanding and a distinctly client-centric approach.
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Condé Nast Luxury Conference Parsons School of Design Tisch School of Business Vanderbilt UniversityAWARDS
Art + Auction — Game Changers Forbes 30 Under 30 Hong Kong Tatler InnovatorsCollector Voices
INTELLIGENCE
Perspectives on the market.
The secondary market moves quickly, but speed and significance are not the same. Our commentary is for collectors and institutions who need a trusted voice on how each decision will read inside the collection in five years, not just how it feels on the day.
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We are most useful once we understand what you are building and where you would like it to go. Share a little about your collection, what you are looking for next, or what you are considering selling. A short note is enough to begin.
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