The Kids Aren’t All Right
Children all too often bear the worst of their parents’ divorce. Parents need to think less about guilty gifts and…
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Who You Gonna Call?
The once clear dividing lines between lawyers, bankers and accountants are starting to blur — with interesting implications for HNWs,…
ByStanhope Capital Acquires Jewson Associates
Boutique investment firm Stanhope Capital has acquired Jewson Associates, an investment consultancy firm specialising in the non-profit sector Boutique investment…
ByFT: Helios Sets Record for African Private Equity
The largest ever amount of money for a new private equity fund targeting Africa has been raised by Helios Investment…
ByStatute Check, Aisle Three
Legal advice is coming soon to a supermarket near you. No, seriously, it is — you could soon be picking…
ByTouch of Evill
The collection was amassed by Evill and left to his Honour Frost, his orphaned ward, whose death has brought this…
ByKnight Frank selling St John’s Wood Barracks for £225m
Knight Frank today launches to market the St John’s Wood Barracks site, in North London, which represents one of the…
ByWBrief: London & Capital launches gold, diamond investment service
Tapping into what it sees as investor demand for “real assets” such as precious metals as inflation fears hold sway,…
ByBeing Safe in Cyber-Space
How do you keep those nasty cyber-bandits out of your emails and online banking? Grace Maa throws up a firewall…
ByShut it, beardy!
I am simply terrified by the thought of what piece of blathering, cod-Keynesian imbecility Rowan Williams will come up with…
ByIMF: UK should stick to deficit reduction plan
The government should stick to its current deficit-reduction programme, the International Monetary Fund said today, despite the UK’s flagging economic…
ByA Sweaty Summer
Readers of this column have had plenty of warning of the coming double-dip and have surely sold in May and…
ByAcceptable Anti-Semitism
The irony is Israel is the only Western-style democracy in the Middle East, with a respect for human life lacking…
ByMidnight Feasts for James Middleton
More at home with finance mags than gossip rags, Spear’s has never had much interest in celebrity eating habits. That…
ByFinAlt: A passion for art investing
This spring, Steve Cohen of SAC Capital Advisors sold an Andy Warhol painting (“Liz #5”) for a cool $27 million…
BySpeechly Bircham to open offices in Luxembourg, Zurich
London law firm Speechly Bircham has today announced the opening of two new European offices. The firm is opening in…
ByClarke In, Warsi Out?
Despite rumours to the contrary, portly Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke will not receive rough justice at the next reshuffle Despite…
ByClass War at Hay-on-Wye
Class war is normally an abstract concept. But it nearly became reality at How the Lights Get In, a Spear’s-sponsored…
ByHong Kong Art Fair blog
I will be in Hong Kong from Tuesday for the art fair, blogging here about the art, the parties, the…
ByBercow Bercan't
Raucous laughter yesterday before President Obama’s address, after a flunkey announced that the Speaker would ‘make a brief speech.’ Raucous…
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