Down on the Range
Polo has not yet managed to reach a wide audience in the UK; after all, the only time most people…
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Withers on Hong Kong divorce ruling
Marcus Dearle, Withers’ Hong Kong Office Managing Director, comments on the news that divorces in Hong Kong will start with…
ByBloomberg: Hong Kong divorces now 50-50 asset split
Hong Kong’s highest court ruled that a city businessman must pay his former wife half his wealth, upholding a 2008…
ByAFP: EU adopts hedge fund directive
BRUSSELS The European Parliament on Thursday endorsed wide-ranging curbs on the trillion-dollar hedge fund industry, blamed in part for fanning…
ByWBrief: Barclays Wealth profits up 9%
Pre-tax profits at Barclays Wealth rose by 9 per cent to £122 million (around $196.6 million) in the nine months…
ByGuardian: Guy Hands is ‘diminished’
Within 48 hours of his crushing legal defeat in New York, where a jury threw out allegations that Citigroup tricked…
ByDown Pompeii
The Italian government has once again shown that dolce far niente is not just a mode of living: it’s a…
ByFT: Gartmore loses another star manager
Shares in mid-cap London investment house Gartmore were under siege on Monday, after the departure of its star fund manager…
BySpanners at the Ready!
The simple fact is that this is trade war by another name, an eruption designed to put a smile on…
ByVill' It Be You?
People attend the Spear’s Wealth Management Awards coming your way on 22 November at the Saatchi Gallery on the King’s…
ByHome All-Own
If you’ve ever thought about building your own des-res, it’s not so far from dream to drawing-board to domestic bliss…
ByChinese Whispers
All the time, beneath most people’s notice, China was making its furious progress, building clutches of power stations every month…
ByInto the Vortex
The credit crunch was caused by the obsession with and lending to the property sector, which led to Banking Crisis…
ByFairs, Please
The Connaught was not at its best. When gallerist Richard Nagy, sitting in the Coburg Bar, asked for a pastry…
ByHedgehog Issue 17
Board games and stiff drinks. Hedgehog enjoys his evenings… BEG, BORROW AND DEAL Normally, if someone offered to sell me…
ByAt the Sharp End: Robert Gaines-Cooper
Entrepreneur and scourge of HMRC Robert Gaines-Cooper faces the Spear’s questionnaire Entrepreneur and scourge of HMRC Robert Gaines-Cooper faces the…
ByHarry Mount
Early this week, Andrew Neil came round to my north London flat to interview me EARLY THIS WEEK, Andrew Neil…
ByLuxe Redux
Diffusion lines, online offerings, fresh creative talent, even good old-fashioned value for money luxury brands will give anything a go…
ByJewellers oppose new gold mine
LONDON, 2 November — Fifty jewellers, with more than £3.5 billion ($5.75 billion) in sales, say they won’t use gold…
ByThe Crisis in the Family Office: Key Quotes
Here are some key quotes from the second Spear’s/Speechly Bircham seminar, ‘The crisis in the family office’, held on 20…
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