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NFTs, rare Harry Potter books and Yeezys among investors’ top passion projects for 2021

A pair of trainers from 2009 are now worth over 2,500% more than they sold for

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Kanye West and Marc Jacobs unveil West's Louis Vuitton trainers at Paris Fashion Week in in 2009, which are now estimated to be worth 22,763 a pair Photo: Michel Dufour/Getty Images

While the world’s high-net-worth individuals opt for more traditional bets for their wider financial strategies, their side hustles are getting a makeover.

Hobbies that lead to so-called passion investments are driving up valuations for collectibles, research from Arbuthnot Latham showed, with the advent of digitised editions through non-fungible tokens leading the way.

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