Families inheriting large business stakes can make terrible mistakes
Owner-managers and shareholders in private companies spend their lives working hard to build a business, usually intending to pass the…
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Everything Greece’s digital entrepreneurs touch turns to gold
So there I was last year, having dinner at the Grande Bretagne, the most prestigious hotel in Athens. Alexandra Vovolini,…
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How to manage a successful family business succession
What is going on in the crowded heads of the queens and kings around the world? In the past eighteen…
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Clusterbucks – how to make money from the South East’s science and technology clusters
It’s in Cambridge, but not of Cambridge. Or is it of Cambridge but not in Cambridge? The Hauser Forum, ‘a…
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Entrepreneur? You’re twice as likely to move abroad, according to Barclays
Author: Aoife Moriarty Released today, the eighteenth volume of Barclays Wealth Insights examines the global landscape of wealth as it…
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David Yarrow’s impassioned essay on Alex Salmond, independence, football and his family’s Scottish shipbuilding history
So it is going down to the wire: Scotland is very close to making an extraordinarily brave decision. There will…
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Take advantage of the châteaux market plunge
Châteaux exist to impress. While some were built as a warmongering deterrent, others were built as a statement of prestige.…
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Take advantage of the châteaux market plunge
Châteaux exist to impress. While some were built as a warmongering deterrent, others were built as a statement of prestige.…
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Scots living in England might get a tax bonanza if Yes win
If the Scots vote Yes this week, the tax implications for their wealthy countrymen living in other parts of the…
ByGiorgio Locatelli's Pizza Locadeli and London in the Sky are our pick of the pop-ups
Emily Rookwood has both traditional and pie-in-the-sky pop-up restaurants for September There are two pop-ups worth investigating this month. One…
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Hedge fund boss donates £5m towards maths gallery for Science Museum
Author: Aoife Moriarty Yesterday, it was announced that billionaire hedge fund founder David Harding is to contribute £5 million towards…
ByWatch out petrol, it's time for electric vehicles to shine
Stephen Hill is an enthusiast for electric vehicles, noble and economical successor to the internal combustion engine Since the beginning…
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GQ’s philanthropy award for Tony Blair won’t inspire anyone to give
News that Tony Blair has become GQ Magazine’s 2014 Philanthropist of the Year has been met with a mixture of…
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The cynical award of a prize for philanthropy to Tony Blair is a wasted opportunity, says Plum Lomax of NPC…
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The only certain result of Scottish independence for tax is uncertainty
Scotland’s last strike at economic independence came in 1698, through the picks and shovels of the doomed Darien scheme, as…
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What does Scottish independence mean for tax, passports and Strictly Come Dancing?
As the debate heats up in the final days before the referendum, in the absence of many hard facts, we…
ByScotland's independence referendum is born from English apathy
If England had not scorned or ignored Scotland for such a long time, we might not have got this close…
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The past, present and uncertain future of London’s great estates
I’d wager there’s not much that connects the mad, misused 17th-century heiress Mary Davies and Lindsay Lohan, 21st-century starlet manquée…
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If Kurdistan can survive ISIS, it has a rich future with oil
Although the news is of the Kurdish Peshmerga valiantly fighting against the Islamic State and trying to stem the tide…
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Mario Draghi looking less super as euro-deflation looms
The one-size-fits-all euro isn’t working – just ask Mario Draghi at the ECB. The Germans and their Bundesbank are screaming…
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