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HNWs Will Have to Work Quickly to Adjust to Stamp Duty Land Tax Changes
The government isn’t giving you or your lawyers much time to adjust to its punishing new stamp duty rules, say…
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Property ownership can be a difficult issue for courts to resolve when two or more parties go their separate ways,…
ByWhy Monetary Policy is the Chosen Global Solution to Our Economic Troubles
Quantitative (Dis)easing While the eurozone remains at the back of investors’ minds, governments and central banks from the UK to…
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Mitch Winehouse on the Amy Winehouse Foundation and New Horizon
Back from Black They said goodbye in more than words, and now Mitch Winehouse is celebrating his daughter Amy’s legacy…
ByThe Art Market Boom Frightens Me
Like the stock market, in a (rapidly) rising art market, the good, bad and ugly also rise in unison Let’s…
ByLeader: Euro-Blown
The global economy has just managed to get through bucket-and-spade time without being washed out to sea, but we have…
ByIt Was Right Not to Award the Ibrahim Prize for African Leadership this Year
That the Mo Ibrahim Foundation declined to award the prize to anyone this year strengthens its credibility. But is the…
ByArticle of the Week: Are Low Cost Private Schools the Solution to Africa’s Education Problems?
Sophie McBain reports from Uganda on a project that is revolutionising how we think about aid, encouraging private schools that…
ByGerhard Richter's Record: Wow!
In what way can you analyze and interpret such a transaction and return of more than 30x, in this or…
By‘Why Social Enterprise?’ Guide Launched
As charities adapt to the tough funding environment, a new free guide is launched today in response to a rise…
ByAttack of the Bureaucratic Ants!
The first presidential debate between Obama and Romney only showed that neither of them should occupy 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on…
ByTrevor Abrahmsohn's ’3bn of Bishops Avenue sales comes deservedly
The Daily Mail is running wild today with the news that Trevor Abrahmsohn, the estate agent who enjoys a monopoly…
ByKally Ellis at McQueen’s on Moving from Finance to Floristry
Superkallyfragilisticexpialidocious Hardly atrocious or even precocious, giving up a career in the City to become a floral entrepreneur was a…
ByFamily Business Transitions Needn’t Resemble Soap Operas
Just because private equity is private doesn’t mean it has to be mysterious too. Trey Vincent of The Riverside Company…
ByFood Friday Book Review: Sweet Tooth by Lily Vanilli
The lovely thing about Lily is that she is not a trained chef. She has learnt her trade by trial…
ByCan the Artesian Bar at the Langham Really Have the World’s Best Cocktail Menu?
I was recently informed that Artesian Bar has been given the accolade of ‘World’s Best Cocktail Menu’. The world is…
ByFood Friday Book Review: Mark Hix on Baking
A few years ago baking was a word written in pink glitter pen, surrounded by butterflies and covered in fairy…
ByCambridge University Issues Its First Public Bond Is This the Start of a Trend for British Universities?
For the first time ever, Cambridge University has decided to raise money through public bond markets by issuing a 40-year,…
ByFrieze Week Diary 2012
Josh Spero will be updating his Frieze Week diary here every day, covering the art fairs, galleries and parties which…
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