Bullets over Caracas
In Caracas, criminals come up to your car with a gun and demand you hand over your wallet ’ or…
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Bank of Ireland confirms bid approaches
Bank of Ireland has confirmed it has received unsolicited bid approaches, following a 14 percent jump in its shares earlier…
BySaudi prince to raise stake in Citigroup
Saudi Arabian investor Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud has announced he will increase his holdings in Citigroup to…
ByEggheads Can Seriously Damage Your Wealth
In 1988 the Wall Street Journal ran a full-page recruitment advertisement for a New York bulge-bracket bank: a bald egghead…
BySurf ‘n’ Turf
Don’t let the big-city real-estate meltdown put you off: investing in beachfront property or farmland is still a good bet,…
ByAllow Me to Introduce Myself
The alias industry — building up fake identities, complete with official documentation — is flourishing. It’s not even that hard…
ByThe Fugitive
Andrei Navrozov meets Michael Cherney, yet another billionaire Russian in self-imposed exile from an increasingly corrupt and creepy Kremlin. The…
ByBuy Me to the Moon
Space on the ground in Manhattan is in desperately short supply, but luckily for developers there’s plenty of prime air…
ByPayback Time
Philanthropy used to be a matter of throwing cash at a cause and forgetting about it. No longer. Josh Spero…
ByTeach the Parents
UBS’s Dialogue programme takes an innovative approach to the financial education of its key clients, from teenagers to tycoons, says…
ByTake the Money and Run
While Liechtenstein still offers discretion and privacy from probing tax authorities, Singapore is proving itself an attractive rival. O’ar Pali…
ByHow to Win Funds and Earn Interest Off People
Desperate times call for desperate measures, up to and including borrowing money from your friends. William Cash on the dos,…
ByHow to Spend It
Forget tax havens and steer clear of commodities. If you’ve still got money to burn, put it in property and…
ByGym'll Fix It
There aren’t many beneficiaries of the credit crunch but the new breed of exclusive high-end super-gyms are currently enjoying a…
ByReady, Set…
Eating, shooting and everything but leaving. READY, SET…If lunch is the new dinner, the set menu is the new à…
ByShrinking the Super-Ego
Evaluating asset managers is no easy business so one investment consultancy employs an in-house psychologist to keep an expert eye…
ByExclusive: Conrad Black's Jail Diary
“I write to you from a US federal prison. It is far from a country club or even a regimental…
ByAnatomy of a Breakdown
Stephen Hill on the causes and chronology of the credit crunch — in which the blind avarice on the part…
ByTrading in treachery
The death of Dickie Franks may be an opportunity to solve one of the most enduring mysteries of recent times.…
BySt James’s Place offers goodwill payment
St James’s Place is to make a £6.9 million one-off goodwill payment to clients affected by the collapse of the…
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