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For just 100 Euros, any investor can buy into the Liechtenstein-based Classic Car fund launched in February by the Zurich-based Count of Custoza family office. It may sound too good to be true, but with the recent recession, there have been many antique car dealers opening up to offer one of a kind unique cars for a fraction of the price. The fund aims to buy 350 million Euros worth of beautiful antique cars within 5 years, and has an annual target return of 17%.

This may sound unrealistic, but the fact is that the prices fetched by the more exotic classic cars have more than doubled in the last decade or so. Not to mention that the fund has some heavyweights on board including experts from Sotheby's and Christie's. Classic cars are a global business these days.

In America, it was the baby-boomers who kick-started this market by buying up muscle cars from their youth like the Mustang Boss, Chevy Chevelle, Corvette Stingray, Plymouth 'Cuda and Shelby GT500 competition cars. But today, wealthy people all over the world who are unnerved by the volatility of normal investment markets are looking for alternative assets like classic cars that have genuine tangible, long-term value.

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The market for investment has been growing with a range of possibilities emerging. Qatar for example, is currently hot in the media topic as it is settling deals with other international multimillion dollar companies. This has been a deal that many companies have expected to happen in the last couple of years due to the growth of the company.

Qatar is a prime emerging market investment destination, which had the world's highest economic growth rate in 2010 at 19.4%. With a population of 1.4 million and very low unemployment, it is not your average emerging market, yet it technically is still considered a frontier market.

This distinction is drawing investor's attention, because next month the index provider MSCI will be announcing whether the gas and oil rich nation's stock exchange will be upgraded from 'frontier' to 'emerging' status. The prospect for such an upgrade is just one of the reasons why investors are flocking to Qatari stocks, which they expect to make further gains should an upgrade occur.

The country has been under review for several years, but has failed to make the cut before due to restrictions on foreign ownership of companies that have not been significantly reformed. For more information you can read about the latest investment progressions here.

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On the typical fund raising pitch for the startup of businesses Austin tech incubator Capital Factory is organizing an event "ATX in NYC," It is especially to raise fund by selling ideas for the start up of new business. There are 16 Austin companies which are heading to New York within a week. It expects to draw a couple of hundred attendees, including angel investors and venture capitalists. Such events for new startup business are frequent happenings in Austin, hosted by groups like the Central Texas Angel Network, Texas Entrepreneur Network and TIE Austin. Greenling Organic Delivery, which delivers organic produce and other goods to area customers, is making the trip to raise money to startup their expansion at national level has already raised $1.5 million from angel investors previously.