Britain’s Bollygarchs
The new tribe of Indian billionaires has its capital in London. Clive Aslet profiles 20 of these Bollygarchs who love…
ByMonth: April 2010
Luke Johnson buys into Beer & Partners
Beer & Partners, the UK’s largest business investment agency, and Luke Johnson, columnist for the FT and former chairman of…
ByIn a Bond Bind
How will a Lib-Lab coalition government affect the UK’s chances of funding all its debt? Freddy Barker investigates How will…
ByReuters: Switz to speed up looted-asset return
BERNE, April 28 (Reuters) – Switzerland on Wednesday unveiled a bill aimed at speeding up the return of assets locked…
ByOnce You Know, You Go
In my navy Budd shirt and Italian mint green trousers, I convinced myself that I was about to become murder…
ByApricot Gallery
Marking the first major venture of Vietnamese art in Britain, HRH Prince Andrew officially opened the Apricot Gallery on Albemarle…
ByFT: Goldmans vs the Senate
Goldman Sachs’ woes mounted on Tuesday as a Senate subcommittee attacked the bank for profiting from the financial crisis at…
ByAnd His Scarf Was…
Prince Andrew at the Apricot Gallery, Henry Wyndham at Sotheby’s, antique jewellery at Cartier and Grace Jones at the Vinyl…
ByWSJ: Swiss banks turning nose up at suspicious clients
ZURICH—Swiss banks such as UBS AG are getting tougher with European clients they suspect of dodging home-country taxes, a move…
ByCitywire: Ex-Goldmans director angered by product-pushing
A former executive director from Goldman Sachs’ private wealth management division believes wealthy families are ill served by private banks.…
ByReuters: Lloyds PB wants in top five
LONDON, April 26 (Reuters) – Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY.L) plans to become one of the five largest private banks in…
ByPromises, Promises
Spear’s has read the manifestos so you don’t have to; the picture for high-net-worths is not pretty. Is there anything…
ByCathy Come Home
The hapless Baroness Ashton is clearly inadequate and is an object of ridicule in Brussels The European Union’s beleaguered foreign…
ByThe Recession, Receding?
There are encouraging signs that the recession of 2009 is over, but where is the all-important US economy? There are…
BySEI: Clients feels WM independence is impossible
The study revealed that although 73 percent of private clients believe independence is of high or medium importance, only 32…
ByThe Artist Is Boring
From the street it was mayhem: rock concert-worthy crowds at MoMA had to be ushered in by huge security guards.…
ByMontego Bay Dispatches
The best literary referral system in the world is what fellow guests are reading around the swimming pool. I am…
ByRich List 2010: Mittal doubles to £22bn, total up 30% to £333.5bn
The 2010 Sunday Times Rich List, published tomorrow, April 25, shows that the collective wealth of Britain’s richest 1,000 people…
ByThe No-Fault Default
Sod the banks, is the thinking, and I totally get that. Chalk it up to the law of unintended consequences.…
ByJumby Bay Dispatches IV
The trouble with too many hotels today is that when it comes to ‘relaxing’, the spa has replaced the library.…
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