The Collapse of Global Leadership and the G-Zero
CREATIVE DESTRUCTION, AS natural as it is inevitable, displaces workers, companies, and sometimes entire industries. It also provides market capitalism…
ByCREATIVE DESTRUCTION, AS natural as it is inevitable, displaces workers, companies, and sometimes entire industries. It also provides market capitalism…
ByWe asked Spear’s friends and contributors like Tom Aikens, Richard Dinan and William Sitwell to tell us about Christmases past…
ByAt the start of this year we launched Spear’s 1 per cent campaign, encouraging the wealthiest ‘1 per cent’ to…
ByThere’s been a record fall of 6 per cent in the number of young people taking up university places this…
ByLying deep beneath the streets of London, hidden in the secret vaults of the Bank of England, is 4,600 tonnes…
ByIn the run-up to Christmas, Spear’s is highlighting four charities which we recommend you consider supporting. You’ve probably never heard…
ByLord Justice Leveson’s speech at the University of Melbourne this morning, entitled ‘Hold the Front Page: News Gathering in a…
ByMy jittery neighbour had been at parties, after-parties, and an after-after-party rave. And then kind of overdosed on MDMA, the…
BySpear’s knows exactly who’s been naughty and who’s been nice, and while we’ve rewarded the nice with mince pies, festive…
ByBerry Asset Management’s decision to publish a Performance Tracker on its website is a very welcome step towards greater transparency…
ByThis year we discovered just how entertaining food spats could be. We know from the popularity of Great British Bake-Off,…
ByDrake’s Progress His namesake Sir Francis is famous for his voyages to the New World, but the A-list New York…
ByFreddy Barker speaks to leading real estate financier Wayne Coleman about how yesterday’s draft Finance Bill will affect London’s prime…
ByThe quest for a better quality of life, rather than improved business prospects, is driving wealthy individuals abroad, a new…
ByA number of improvements have been made, but it remains the case that there is a risk that perfectly legitimate…
ByHugh James explains that the consultation, which closes today, suggests reducing judges’ discretion on how to allocate ‘non-matrimonial property’, which…
ByThese changes will apply an annual mansion tax on such properties (of up to 0.7% per annum) and also a…
ByUpcycling involves repurposing cheap or second-hand materials into luxury goods: from newspaper scraps to firemen’s hoses, old is new again…
ByOh, Do Behave! Forget derivatives and market crashes: the biggest obstacle to HNWs investing well is… their brain. That’s where…
ByMerrill Lynch Wealth Management’s CIO Bill O’Neill on the economic outlook for next year, the US fiscal cliff and why…
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