May 2012 - Spear's Magazine

Spear’s Young Turk Awards 2012 Winners Announced

Photos from Spear’s Young Turk Awards 2012

Month: May 2012

How the Light Gets In 2012

Hay-on-Wye, Wales 31 May-10 June HowTheLightGetsIn, the world’s largest philosophy and music festival, returns to Hay from 31st May to 10th June with a new theme, ‘Unchartered Territories’.

Spear’s Young Turk Awards 2012 Winners Announced

The awards, recognising the rising stars, aged under 35, of all fields in the private client industries, from wealth management to art advisory, were hosted by actress and campaigner Georgina Rylance and Spear’s editor-in-chief William Cash

WBrief: Stanley Gibbons launching rare coin index

As doubts continue about the durability of “fiat” money economies, Stanley Gibbons, the firm famed in the stamp collecting business, has rolled out a rare coin index showing prices having risen 248 per cent since 2002, an compound annual growth rate of 13.3 per cent

Kenny Schachter Reports from ART Hong Kong

I MADE MY first trip to Hong Kong to visit ART HK 12, the 5th iteration of the fair, recently majority purchased by ART Basel. Now there is Basel Miami, Basel Switzerland, and Basel Hong Kong, a concept similar to that of Disney theme parks in Los Angeles, Orlando, Paris and Hong Kong (which I didn't know existed till now). Maybe Switzerland should be next in line for a Disney franchise; it seems to fit the correlation. Nothing quite prepares you for long haul flights, from London it's about 11.5 - 12.5 hours to Hong Kong, though the trip cost a friend nearly 18 hours from New York, so one shouldn't be heard to complain too much.

Julie Meyer's Follow the Entrepreneur Conference

Four Seasons Hotel, Hampshire 25 May Invitation only ’Europe and the UK is being redefined by its entrepreneurs,’ says Ariadne Capital, the brainchild of Julie Meyer, no mean entrepreneur herself

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