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His elimination by Special Forces demonstrates that participation in a terrorist organization is guaranteed to severely limit an individual’s life…
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Pardoning Alan Turing
The proposition that more than half a century later an administration should apologise for the past conduct seems illogical. Prime…
ByFT: Banking consolidation to continue with sell-offs
“Two down and plenty to go” could be the motto of investment bankers eyeing up the biggest consolidation in wealth…
ByWBrief: SG PB to move more into UHNW territory
SG Private Banking is focusing its efforts on the upper range of clients, according to the organisation’s chief executive, Daniel…
ByGuardian: Lloyds finds low-tax route through China
The tax authorities are investigating Lloyds Banking Group after evidence emerged that the bank, kept alive by £17bn of taxpayers’…
ByWBrief: Swiss stock exchange investigating UBS
The Swiss stock exchange is investigating UBS for possible breaches of the market’s regulations, according to media reports. The Swiss…
ByMaking Pipi in France
My dining companion said he found my political views to be “slightly to the right of the Ku Klux Klan.”…
ByStanding for Nothing in Iraq
But if al-Zaidi’s torture allegations are true, it would mean the allies have substituted Hussein with their very own torturer:…
ByRight Back Atcha
Caroline Garnham on thoughtful philanthropy – giving not just because you can but also because you care IN THIS COLUMN…
ByChief Minister: Guernsey doesn’t need a bailout
Guernsey’s Chief Minister, Lyndon Trott, has firmly rejected suggestions that the Island might require a ‘bail out’ from the UK…
ByGuardian: Barclays offloads toxic assets to Caymans
Two top bankers are leaving Barclays to manage a fund in the Cayman Islands that is buying $12.3bn (£7.47bn) of…
ByWBrief: AXA unites all wealth companies
AXA, the financial services and investment giant, has reorganised its collection of wealth management businesses under a single UK-based umbrella…
ByBloomberg: Buffett asked to insure Lehman
Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) — Billionaire Warren Buffett said he was approached a year ago about insuring Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s…
ByFT: 30 top SocGen managers set up own hedge fund business
Thirty senior bankers from Société Générale’s alternative asset management team have left to set up their own hedge fund business…
ByFriezing already
Frieze is the starting pistol for the art world’s runners. The interesting question is whether it is a sprint, a…
ByBCG report: Europe overtakes N American wealth
NEW YORK, September 15, 2009—The crisis is transforming the global map of the world’s wealthiest people, with Europe nudging out…
ByWBrief: Kleinwort Benson enters last stage of bidding
Kleinwort Benson, the UK private bank up for sale by its German parent, will receive final bids this week but…
BySpear’s Awards: Dispatches from the Front
The Awards were introduced by Viscount Linley, Chairman of Christie’s, who eloquently pointed out that those who left without an…
ByHedgehog Issue 13
Financial custody, Harrods incentives, art recesses and more. Hedgehog is sponsored by Schroders Private Banking COM-PUUU-TER? Part of the reason…
ByAnthony Haden-Guest
Fast forwards. When the history of the American Empire is written one reason given for its decline may well be…
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