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If Today is Tuesday, I Must Be Brazilian
It’s become commonplace now to state that ‘the world is flat’. As the New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman…
ByGreenbacks for Greenbelts
Landowning is not what it used to be – it’s now the latest philanthropic trend. Billionaire or Rich Lister names…
ByJust Try Not to Gloat
A small and unassuming, privately published blue book is making its way around London’s private-equity circles. If you’re a private-equity…
ByTree-Hugging for Fun and Profit
So how far are we from a ‘cleantech’ tipping point: the point at which world-weary cynicism about ethics and the…
ByWelcome to the Family
Her article described the moment when a US entrepreneur met the multi-family office that was to take over his overall…
ByBrokered Dreams
Tine Willumsen’s first meeting with Christian Volkers was some years ago. Völkers was, and is, the chairman and CEO of…
ByAll Quiet on the SW Front
It would be hard to conceive of an international financial crisis that did not result in somebody, somewhere celebrating their…
ByOne Downsize
The Wall Street titan crosses his legs, relaxes his shoulders, leans back in his chair and expresses a sentiment shared…
ByTheme And Variations
Over recent years, London has become an increasingly attractive place for very wealthy couples, many of whom lead international lives,…
ByFraction of the Price
When fractional ownership of property first arrived on the scene, the business model wasn’t exactly solid. It offered a tantalising…
ByLocked In or Locked Out
The lot of the minority shareholder in a private family investment company is not a happy one. The lot of…
ByProperty Hawks
Stenham, the independent wealth and asset management group, has recently re-entered the UK market via a new property fund after…
ByCold Steel: Britain’s Richest Man and the Multi-Billion-Dollar Battle for a Global Empire
Indian-born steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal may be Britain’s richest man, but few have any understanding of the vision and strategy…
ByTicket, Please
Dickens, Tennyson and Eliot loved it; so does Tom Stoppard. Josh Spero on why the London Library is, quite literally,…
ByPresent Carefully
The property market is resolutely not as dismal as the daily newspapers would have everyone believe. The property market is…
ByRichard Kay
The ’season’ is upon us, that extraordinary six weeks in which sport, opera and horticulture collide with social climbing, arcane…
ByMoscow Moolah
Spear’s is launching in Russia. Our UHNW comrades are renowned for swift earning and extravagant spending, and they’re not grinding…
ByEssential Date
On a grand mission to unlock the secrets of financial prosperity and live the ’high-life’, London is fervently zoning in…
ByAdvance and Retreat
The world of private equity appears to be shrinking somewhat. The world of private equity appears to be shrinking somewhat.…
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