Spear’s leaders from issue 48: Immortality, timeless advisers and Lord Drayson
Britain hasn’t given up on innovation, like how immortalists haven’t given up on a cure for death Let’s do the…
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To P2P or not to P2P?
Peer-to-peer lending, or crowdlending, is proving a godsend for SMEs and investors alike. Christopher Silvester reports How many of you…
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Engel & Völkers Yachting to expand its presence in the French Riviera this Spring
Engel & Völkers, one of the leading service companies specialised in the brokerage of premium residential property, commercial real estate,…
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Davos is daft!
Stephen Hill rakes the mountainside for wisdom, but finds little worth hearing The World Economic Forum is over for another…
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Investors in Iran now face the Revolutionary Guard
As the sanctions come down investors will flock to Iran but they must be ready to deal with the string-pullers…
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At the Sharp End: Amanda Levete
The award-winning architect who is designing a new courtyard and gallery at the Victoria & Albert Museum offers her blueprint…
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Why Cameron should give up on EU reform and Brexit in style
Stephen Hill says the UK does not need a ‘stagnant, deflationary, one-size-suits-only-Germany Single Currency EU’. 14 David Cameron bowed to…
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Jedis lose to Druids when it comes to charitable status
The force is not with the UK’s Jedi Knights, who are yet to make the Charity Commission Register, unlike the…
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Growing up fast: family businesses in danger of selling too soon
When there are no heirs to the throne, painful and difficult decisions abound says Deborah Clark. Family businesses are much…
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Meet the Lord of tech
One of Britain’s leading tech entrepreneurs, Paul Drayson’s career has taken him from robotics and riches to the red benches…
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David McDonough has spent 40 years as a pioneering adviser to captains of industry and global leaders ’ and now…
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William Cash’s letter from issue 47
William Cash on celebrating the spirit of Lemuel Gulliver and Adam Dant’s ‘monumental encyclopaedia’ of the 2015 general election As…
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Stephen Hill hears the bugles on Horse Guards Parade practicing the sounding of the Retreat The latest gaggle of geese…
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As commercially creative as it is chaotic, Lagos, with some UHNW help, is emerging as a sub-Saharan answer to California’s…
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Bernard Madoff will spend the rest of his days behind bars ?but how are the victims faring? Alex Matchett hears…
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Stephen Hill feels the angst as the stars align for European integration The Agnelli family is buying a larger stake…
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William Cash’s letter from issue 46
William Cash on the recipes for success in HNW beauty parades, and misplaced blame in the fight to tackle dodgy…
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What is Corbynomics, and can it ever work?
Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell are suddenly accountable for everything they do and say. But can ‘Corbynomics’ live up to…
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A small town in Australia has seduced the world’s top chefs and emerged as the unlikely star of the prized…
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British luxury is making a significant comeback but if it really wants to compete globally the UK needs to diversify…
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