Dr Doom and Dr Gloom
Quantitative easing, you see, isn’t reaching those parts that the other stimuli cannot reach. The last issue of the house…
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Frieze Week: Tuesday
‘Bacon? Who’s he? Never heard of him,’ says Damien when I ask him about his influences. ‘I prefer eggs and…
ByFrieze Week: Monday
Laurence Graff told Spear’s that he had always wondered what it was like to stand on the other side of…
ByeFc: Coutts loses 70 bankers in mass defection
The 70 RBS Coutts employees in Singapore who grabbed international headlines today by quitting the firm en masse are all…
ByArt London looks up
Art London had too much drawing-room art last year. This year, Art London moved out of the drawing room and…
ByNon-doms remain, London property prices to rise from 2010
The supposed exodus of non-doms from London has not materialised, according to Knight Frank’s residential market forecast, launched this morning.…
ByFrom Russia with Steam
The torture chamber chic really comes into its own when you have a platzka. A Russian comes in with a…
ByLock up Your Houses!
Ross Clark on the devious yet relatively simple means by which fraudsters can, figuratively speaking, make off with your real…
ByJohn Redwood on the Economic Crisis
Read John Redwood’s summary of the Spear’s Talk he gave at the Henley Literary Festival on Sunday, October 4 “For…
BySplitting the Difference
Divorce law relating to financial settlements has long ceased to be a laughing matter. That is because UK law is…
ByAfterlives
The sad truth is that most people in the City do not have a Plan B, either through lack of…
ByWobbly-W and Wobbledy-Gook
The world economy is not on an incipient roll as the politicians and central bankers would have you believe; it’s…
ByExclusive: Vestra hits £1 billion
Vestra Wealth, the wealth management firm set up after a very public exodus of UBS bankers, has reached £1 billion…
ByReuters: Credit Suisse looks for billions from Asia
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Credit Suisse (CSGN.VX: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) is looking to hire experienced private bankers and hopes…
ByWhole Lotta Shakin’ Going On
Sophie Walker, stepping onto the Power Plate, finds that she can vibrate her way through the myths and into fitness…
ByReuters: BlackRock forecasts $10tr baby boomer shift
BOSTON (Reuters) – U.S. financial advisors are due for upheaval as baby boomers, controlling $10 trillion in assets, reach retirement…
ByBad publicity
Another cartoon from the sharpest pen in the Really Annoying Phrases series: Bad publicity. Another cartoon from the sharpest pen…
ByReuters: BNY Mellon looking to acquire WM firms
BOSTON (Reuters) – Bank of New York Mellon Corp (BK.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), busy integrating its merger and…
ByWBrief: Citi to abandon commissions, move to set fees
Citi has moved to change how it operates its financial advisory services, scrapping commissions-based advice and instead moving to charge…
ByEntrepreneuses Special Section
‘DON’T INVITE THE women — they’re probably secretaries.’ This was overheard in an office and neatly captures the status women…
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