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With the credit crunch putting that Easter break in St Moritz on hold this year, Spear’s WMS offers the definitive…
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Make Luxe Not War
Sustaining the European luxury-goods market is not merely an economic necessity but also a moral obligation. Go forth and spend,…
ByLow Interest Rate
Ignore the estate-agent guff about troops of foreign buyers beating a path to their doors — they’re not. The London…
ByPunxsutawney Will
The social and economic maladies decried in the 19th-century writings of William Cobbett deliver a true Groundhog Day moment, says…
ByYou Snooze, You Lose
Time for ladies with dollars to see sense and get clued up about wealth management before they get ripped off,…
ByTop o’ the Mornin’
As if everyday life wasn’t hard enough already, some people choose to make matters worse by skipping breakfast. Is that…
ByA Winter’s Tale
Oscar Humphries on the peculiar mixture of gloom and excess, schadenfreude and swagger that has characterised the past few tumultuous…
ByLet’s Not Do Lunch
Good tax lawyers are worth their weight in gold — sometimes almost literally. But that doesn’t mean you actually have…
ByThe Shame of Shopping
The times, as even the dullest Birkin-wielder slouching down Sloane Street will surely have noticed, are recessionary, so when buying…
ByOscar-winners and maitre d's
So many of the ‘film critic’ voters for the Golden Globes actually work as waiters in restaurants to pay their…
ByLet's Not Do Lunch
Good tax lawyers are worth their weight in gold sometimes almost literally. But that doesn’t mean you actually have to…
ByNo Lehman is an Island
Who didn’t enjoy watching the unlovable chumps of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers getting their comeuppance? Trouble is, we’re all…
ByMerrill finds additional 2008 loss
In another blow for the reputation of Merrill Lynch and the tenure of departed chief executive John Thain, the bank…
ByAFP: Pictet warns against easing Swiss secrecy
GENEVA (AFP) Switzerland’s key financial services industry could be decimated if its trademark secrecy is given up as part of…
ByAndrew Roberts
An invitation arrives for the launch of Alain de Botton’s new book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, which will…
ByBox by Box
In the last Hedgehog, we brought you the news that set menus are the new à la carte, and that…
ByMuscovite Munching
As celebrated by the new Russian edition of Spear’s WMS, Moscow is a home from home for high net worths,…
BySchadenfraud
In the context of the US government bailing out Wall Street and the election of Barack Obama as president, a…
ByMaking Off
As 2008 drew to its close, two men who had never met each other and of whom most of us…
ByThain told to tell all about ML bonuses
Former Merrill Lynch chief executive John Thain has been ordered by a New York court to provide more details about…
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