Sunday Times Rich List 2011
Having seen their wealth soar 30% in 2010 to ’334 billion, still recovering from 2008’s low, Britain’s richest 1000 have…
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Going Nowhere
The UK economy might as well be The Grand Old Duke of York’s Army: for six months the UK economy…
ByCameron's Cleggover
It’s not hard to imagine that our battered deputy prime minister regretting a lot more than rien Nick Clegg nearly…
ByGuardian: ArtFinder brings social media to art
Of the startup pitches I’ve heard in the past five years, ArtFinder must be the most ambitious yet believable of…
ByRBS: Private banking profits up nearly a third
The outlook at RBS’s private banking division is substantially rosier than this time last year, with operating profits rising from…
ByLloyd’s Wealth division hit by £1.4bn charge
Lloyd’s Wealth and International branch was hit with an impairment charge of £1.4 billion in the first quarter of this…
ByReuters: Christie’s sale fails to reach low estimate
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Works by Monet, Picasso and Maurice de Vlaminck each sold for more than $20 million on…
BySaffery Champness: Tax evaders win with Swiss deal
Britons with money hidden in secret bank accounts in Switzerland will, reportedly, be subject to a 50% withholding tax collected…
ByYes to AV! No to AV!
Two of Spear’s writers debate the merits of AV, which the country will vote on in a referendum this Thursday…
ByForget AV – it's EU we need a vote on
Would you vote to join a club where the insolvent members are paid for by the solvent ones? As the…
ByFT: UK-Swiss hidden money deal trailed
Britons with billions of pounds hidden in Switzerland will pay tax at 50 per cent under a groundbreaking deal that…
ByWe have the royal pre-nup details… or not
According to that ever-reliable organ of translation, Babelfish, we told Bild: ‘With a divorce, William gets the children!’ It all…
BySpear’s profile of Andrew Dalton
A profile of Andrew Dalton, founder of Dalton Strategic Partnership, who died on Easter Sunday From the Spear’s HNW Wealth…
ByCitywire: Andrew Dalton dies
The founder of Dalton Strategic Partnership (DSP) Andrew Dalton died on Easter Sunday following a heart attack The founder of…
ByReuters: Hedge funds hit $2tr AuM
BOSTON, April 19 (Reuters) – Hedge funds are back and bigger than ever BOSTON, April 19 (Reuters) – Hedge funds…
ByTypography
I have rarely come into contact with a typewriter, except when bashing away at one at a garage sale and…
ByWBrief: UBS profits rise
UBS reported a 7 per cent quarter-on-quarter rise in pre-tax profit at its wealth management arm in the three months…
ByDigital Revolution
Looking at our panorama of the Middle East and North Africa in this issue, it may appear that you are…
ByBegging Bowl
The word on everyone’s lips these days is ’philanthropy’: as fast as people used to want to make money, so…
BySpin Cycle
The only good news to emerge in Q1 2011 is that in March the US economy added a pretty anaemic…
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