Spear's Magazine: Wealth Management & Luxury Lifestyle

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

The disinherited Earl of Yarmouth’s failed legal challenge against his family trust has left him with a £1.3 million bill and a cautionary tale for other heirs

By Christian Maddock

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Tax

How Budget 2025 could affect your wealth: what the UK’s top advisers are saying

By Livia Giannotti

Wealth

Hot Leeds: Yorkshire hub is new magnet for wealth management

By Christian Maddock

Wealth

What the rise in gold prices means for UHNWs

By Tahar Rajab

Wealth Management

AI simulation set to take wealth managers and family offices from the ‘age of guessing’ to the ‘era of knowing’

By Livia Giannotti

Wealth

London still top city for HNW lifestyle despite tax concerns

By Livia Giannotti

Impact Philanthropy

James Reed CBE: An open letter to Spear’s readers

By James Reed

Wealth

Wealthy South Africans move to the UK in swathes: we ask why?

By Christian Maddock

Tax

A tax on the ultra-wealthy: Switzerland prepares for high-stakes referendum

By Livia Giannotti

Wealth

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

By Spear's

Business

Women lead the way as family businesses set for record growth worldwide

By Tahar Rajab

Tax

Britain’s farmers face grim new inheritance tax reality

By Alec Marsh

Wealth Management

Inside Lombard Odier’s new Herzog & de Meuron-designed headquarters

By Edwin Smith

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

The Spear’s Awards 2025

By Edwin Smith and Aisha Alli

Property

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

Development and regeneration projects include John Caudwell's £2bn 1 Mayfair and a £1bn redevelopment of the Piccadilly Estate by Reuben Brothers

By Edwin Smith

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Property

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

By Livia Giannotti

Property

The $393 trillion market: real estate remains world’s ultimate store of wealth

By Tahar Rajab

Property

Where the super-rich are renting luxury £75,000-a-week London homes

By Suzanne Elliott

Property

The hidden costs of super-prime home ownership

By Christian Maddock

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

Luxury

‘Space is the only frontier left’: The rise of the ultimate $1 million luxury family holiday

By John Arlidge

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

Interviews

Impact Philanthropy

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

By Livia Giannotti

Food & Drink

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

By Aisha Alli

Motoring

Bugatti’s CEO on the V16 Tourbillon and ‘doing everything from scratch’

By Iain Macauley

Impact Philanthropy

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

By Livia Giannotti

Luxury

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

EXC: Billionaire art collector Thomas S. Kaplan on selling an Old Master drawing to raise funds for a wildlife charity – and why he plans to fractionalise his Rembrandt collection

By George Nelson

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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

Jumeirah Burj Al Arab: Celebrating 25 years of Dubai’s iconic landmark

By Aisha Alli

Travel

La dolce vita at A-list Italian favourite, Villa d’Este

By Zana Wilberforce

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

‘Nothing ages you like a bad divorce’: what HNWs are doing to avoid divorce drama

By Shruti Advani

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

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

By Christian Maddock

Opinions

In the age of AI, the most ambitious students should forget about A Levels

By Robert Harrison

Private Schools

CVC and Partners Group make €7 billion investment in international school empire

By Christian Maddock

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