Spear's Magazine: Wealth Management & Luxury Lifestyle

Billionaire wealth and inheritance hit record highs in 2025

The world’s 3,000 billionaires now hold $15.8 trillion, with transfers of wealth to heirs also reaching levels never seen before

By Livia Giannotti

Wealth

Head of Malta’s financial regulator denies sanctioned Russian investment

By Christian Maddock

Wealth Management

Fewer than half of family offices have a clear measure of success – here’s why

By Christian Maddock

Impact Philanthropy

Sir Alec Reed, businessman and philanthropist, dies aged 91

By Tahar Rajab

Tax

Even rejected, Swiss wealth tax debate offers lessons for UHNW clients

By Tahar Rajab

Law

Prenup and cohabitation law delays put wealthy families at risk

By Tahar Rajab

Awards & Events

Jessica de Rothschild and founders of The Entertainer among winners at 2025 Spear’s Awards

By Spear's

Wealth

Economics Investing

What are hedge funds betting on in 2026?

By Will Wainewright

Wealth

Building resilient portfolios in 2026: how investors can navigate AI, commodities and market risks

By Christian Maddock

Health & Wellness

Wealth manager of the year calls on clients and colleagues to test for prostate cancer

By Edwin Smith and Tahar Rajab

Wealth

Coutts graduate intake reignites debate over gender gap in UK finance sector

By Livia Giannotti

Business

Incorrect markets data published on front page of FT

By Edwin Smith

Wealth

Spear’s Power List 2025 in association with Shamal: The 100 most influential people in the world of private wealth

By Spear's

Spear's 500

The Spear's 500

A guide to The Spear’s 500: Everything you need to know

By Edwin Smith and Aisha Alli

Awards & Events

A guide to the Spear’s Awards: Everything you need to know

By Edwin Smith and Aisha Alli

Private Schools

A guide to the Spear’s Schools Index: Everything you need to know

By Edwin Smith and Aisha Alli

Awards & Events

Jessica de Rothschild and founders of The Entertainer among winners at 2025 Spear’s Awards

By Spear's

Property

Will the mansion tax hurt prime property prices?

Experts have raised concerns over the workings of the new levy on high-value homes, revealed in Wednesday's Budget

By Christian Maddock

Property

Will I have to pay mansion tax?

By Tahar Rajab

Wealth

London still top city for HNW lifestyle despite tax concerns

By Livia Giannotti

Property

Mayfair ‘back to the top of the Monopoly board’ as £4 billion makeover gathers momentum

By Edwin Smith

Property

‘Buyers bragging rights’: Homes previously owned by celebrities sell faster – and better – than other properties

By Livia Giannotti

Spotlight

Food & Drink

From the Queen’s roast chicken to King Charles’ love of food: Tom Parker Bowles on feasts and cordials

Food writer and critic Tom Parker Bowles on a love of all things edible, a new adventure in the soft drinks world, and life as the son of a Queen

By Aisha Alli

Features

Wealth

Spear’s Power List 2025 in association with Shamal: The 100 most influential people in the world of private wealth

By Spear's

Wealth

So, you’re going to be rich, what do you do now? Experts on how to handle a liquidity event

By Spear's

Health & Wellness

The £54,000-a-year health clinics helping the super-rich live longer

By Simon Usborne

Wealth

Demand for private vaults soars in London as gold prices rise and thefts surge

By Christian Maddock

Interviews

Food & Drink

From the Queen’s roast chicken to King Charles’ love of food: Tom Parker Bowles on feasts and cordials

By Aisha Alli

Art & Culture

Why I’m selling a $20 million Rembrandt and giving the proceeds to charity

By George Nelson

Impact Philanthropy

Countess Albina du Boisrouvray on the ‘disgusting’ politics of humanitarianism – and becoming a TikTok sensation

By Livia Giannotti

Impact Philanthropy

Rothschild heir: ‘We have to start seeing philanthropy not just as charity, but as a legacy’

By Livia Giannotti

Luxury

Revealed: the luxury travel trends set to shape 2026

Planning journeys to lesser-visited destinations and aligning work with travel are key luxury travel trends for 2026, a report from Audley Travel and Globetrender has revealed

By Christian Maddock

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Art & Culture

Gustav Klimt painting fetches $236.4m, becoming second-highest auction sale in history

By Livia Giannotti

Uncategorized

Penicuik House: The 18th-century country home undergoing a charming rebirth

By Caitlin Kilpatrick

Luxury

Jumeirah Marsa Al Arab: Inside Dubai’s new superyacht-inspired hotel

By Aisha Alli

Luxury

Azzurra: a taste of coastal Italy in Sloane Square

By Kathryn Anderson

Law

Legal experts issue warning after disinherited Earl loses £1.3 million in family feud

By Christian Maddock

Law

Abu Dhabi resident files for $272 million divorce settlement in ‘bellwether’ case

By Suzanne Elliott

Law

Bringing wills into the 21st century: will major inheritance law reform soothe or spark legal battles?

By Suzanne Elliott

Law

What the UK’s third-largest divorce settlement teaches us about coercive control

By Anna Pollitt

Events

Awards & Events

A guide to the Spear’s Awards: Everything you need to know

The Spear’s Awards celebrate the best in private client services. Here’s everything you need to know, including how to apply and the selection process

By Edwin Smith and Aisha Alli

Columns

Art & Culture

Are we repeating the same mistakes? The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History

By Martin Vander Weyer

Art & Culture

Echoes of Odysseus: why the spoken word still holds power

By Daisy Dunn

Art & Culture

Frieze and the Frenchman: Revisiting Bernard Buffet’s Paris at Opera Gallery

By Nicholas Foulkes

Column

The untold history of women on Wall Street

By Paulina Bren

Column

Light in colour and in spirit: the ultimate lightweight pink wool jacket

By Nicholas Foulkes

Luxury

Is a robot painting worth $1 million or is it just hype?

By John Russo

Education

Private Schools

The Spear’s Schools Index 2025: the definitive guide to the 100 leading private schools in the world

By Edwin Smith and Matthew Goldie-Scot

Private Schools

The most expensive schools in the UK: from Eton to Winchester

By Spear's

Private Schools

King Charles’ alma mater expands – school that shaped royals arrives in UAE

By Christian Maddock

Private Schools

British school internationalisation: as branded institutions open across the globe, do they rival their UK counterparts?

By Christian Maddock

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