Wealth is boring if it just stays on a screen.

Your private bank is right to keep most of your portfolio by the book. This is about the rest of it: the part you can hang above the fireplace, wear to dinner or take out on a Sunday morning.

Art, watches, stones, homes that never reach a listing, cars with a story. Assets that hold their value and give you something back every single day. The hard part was never the money. It’s knowing who to trust with it.

That’s my job. I connect you with specialists I have vetted in person, people who spent decades at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and the world’s leading auction houses, and I stay with you until the piece is yours.

80%

Stocks, bonds and funds. Your wealth manager has this covered.

20%

Where your money starts to live. This is where I come in.

$7.98M
in transactions facilitated in 2026
60+
unique properties sourced outside Europe
20+ yrs
of market experience behind every advisor
1
conversation is all it takes to start

Picture it at home first.

Nobody buys a painting to look at a spreadsheet. Choose a category and imagine it where it belongs.

Sara

Above your desk.

The canvas you see every morning when you walk into your study, and the one your children will argue over in thirty years. Blue-chip names and emerging artists, with provenance checked before you fall in love..

Who you’ll talk to
Art advisors and curators with auction-house careers behind them.

Auta-klasyczne

In your garage, on a Sunday.

Classics from the golden age and modern icons, bought on condition reports and documented history rather than a few good photos.

Who you’ll talk to
Concours judges, restorers and specialist dealers.

1G8A7791

On your daughter's wedding day.

A stone that is worth more when she passes it on to her own daughter. Investment-grade diamonds and coloured gemstones, graded and certified by gemmologists who do nothing else.

Who you’ll talk to
Certified gemmologists and high-jewellery specialists.

Wina

In your cellar, for the right evening.

Allocations that sell out before release and cellars built to drink or to hold, with the paperwork that makes them easy to sell later.

Who you’ll talk to
Wine and spirits specialists working with Monark.

Sara

On your wrist, not on a waiting list.

Independent watchmakers, limited references and pieces that never reach a boutique window. Sourced, authenticated and delivered to you.

Who you’ll talk to
Watch specialists who have bought and sold at the major auctions.

Moenty

In your hands, not on a statement.

Gold and silver you can hold, in bars and coins with documented provenance. It is the one asset that has kept its value through every crisis, currency and border change, and it fits in a private vault or a safe at home. Sourced from trusted mints and dealers, verified, and stored where you choose.

Who you’ll talk to
Bullion dealers and numismatists who know the difference between metal and a collector’s coin.

Sara

The house that was never for sale.

Lakeshores, old-town apartments, estates with a history. Most of what my network finds never appears in a listing, and some of it wasn’t on the market until we asked.

Who you’ll talk to
Off-market brokers across Europe, the Gulf and beyond.

One conversation. Everything else is on me.

I call it investment matchmaking: you tell me what you’d love to own, and I bring you the one person who should help you buy it.

1
We talk, properly.

Art, watches, stones, homes that never reach a listing, cars with a story. Assets that hold their value and give you something back every single day. The hard part was never the money. It’s knowing who to trust with it.

2
I make the introduction.

I take your brief to the specialist in my network who knows that market best. Not a list of names to call, but one introduction, with my reasons for it. Often it’s someone who has worked with Christie’s or Sotheby’s.

3
You acquire it with confidence.

Provenance, authentication, condition, price, and paperwork are checked before you commit. You make the decision; everything around it is handled, discreetly and end to end. Fully insured transit, white-glove transport, and climate-controlled storage — we manage every aspect of your asset’s care.

I don't know everything. I know who does.

Every advisor in my network has been vetted by me in person: track record, references, and how they behave when a deal goes wrong. Most have spent twenty years or more inside their market, with millions in transactions behind them.

That is the difference between a recommendation and an introduction you can rely on.

Christie's
Sotheby's
Leading auction houses
Private dealerships
A selection of the network. Names are shared after our first conversation.
Field Background In the market
Fine art Former specialist at an international auction house in London 40 years
Gemmology Certified gemmologist, advisor to high-jewellery houses 25 years
Haute horlogerie Independent dealer and consultant to major watch auctions 21 years
Luxury real estate Off-market broker, Switzerland and the Riviera 20 years
Collectible cars Concours judge and restoration consultant 30 years

Two stories I can tell without names.

The house on Lake Geneva that wasn't for sale.

A client saw it from the water on holiday and described it to me down to the shutters. No listing, no agent, no intention to sell. A few months later, it was his.

Off-market real estate
Switzerland
The cinema history forgot.

Another client wanted to bring something forgotten back to life. We found the owner of a former cinema who dreamed of restoring its concert hall but needed a partner. Today they own it together: one found the investment he wanted to be proud of, the other found his investor.

Private operating business
Heritage property

Many of my clients are public figures, so you won’t find their names, faces or logos here. Only what we did for them. Your enquiry will be treated the same way.

And when it isn't an investment at all?

My investors call me for these too. I’m always on their side, and it’s never too small to ask.

A private jet, tomorrow morning.

A week on a yacht nobody else could book.

A case of her favourite vintage, in time for her birthday.

The watch with a three-year waiting list.

The person who makes the call.

Most advisors tell you they know. I tell you I know the right people.
What my clients can count on
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A network built over a decade on three continents
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An honest assessment of every advisor I introduce
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Complete discretion
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My involvement before, during and long after a deal

I come from a family with a multi-generational business tradition and from a noble line, where discretion, etiquette and conversations about wealth, succession and responsibility for family capital were part of everyday life. That world is natural to me, and people feel it.

I don’t judge and I don’t hedge. I listen, find the solution and we act. Investors work with me because I’m relentlessly effective and because I’m always on their side, before, during and long after a deal.

Through my company, Monark Group, my team executes acquisitions end to end. Through my podcast, I bring the best people in the market into the open.

Company
Monark Group, Dubai, Geneva and Warsaw
Podcast
Host of Decyzje warte miliony
2026
$7.98M in facilitated transactions
Experience

Ten years with investors, family offices and advisors across Europe, the UAE and Africa

Previously

Vice President at financial companies, including WeSub

Education

Finance at SGH Warsaw School of Economics
Completing the state exams to become a licensed investment advisor in Poland

Languages

English, Polish, French and German

For experts

Take a seat at the table.

I’m building a small, selective network of the people serious investors should be talking to: gemmologists, art advisors and curators, watch specialists, off-market brokers, appraisers and collectors.

If you have the track record (decades in your field, transactions behind you, a reputation that holds up when checked), my clients are entrepreneurs, family offices and private investors who are ready to buy and need someone they can trust.

Join the advisory network

A steady flow of well-prepared, high-net-worth clients who arrive already knowing what they want and why they’re talking to you.

Be a guest on the podcast

Share what you know with an audience of private investors and become the name people think of first in your field.

Every application is reviewed by me personally. I check references, past transactions and how you work with clients. Trust is the only currency here, so the bar stays high for everyone.

DECYZJE
warte miliony.
SARA POPIEL

Listen before you invest.

Conversations with the people who move the alternative asset market: the auctions, the stones, the deals that never make the news. The knowledge you’d normally only get over a private dinner.

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Investment matchmaking for alternative assets. Host of Decyzje warte miliony.