Will a social-media clause in your prenup prevent your embarrassing photos getting out?
Along with the usual wedding preparations, more couples are considering whether or not to enter into a prenuptial agreement. The…
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What is prompting a wave of wealth manager mergers in London?
Mergers on the wealth management scene are like buses: too many people crammed into a small space, causing sweaty neighbours,…
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Christopher Hohn’s billion-pound divorce puts the star in the spotlight
The divorce of hedge fund manager Christopher Hohn and his wife Jamie Cooper-Hohn, which is due to be heard over…
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How do I make sure my will deals with my digital assets?
What do you own? According to a 1925 act, your chattels (for those are things you own other than money)…
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HNWs abandon caution post crisis as their numbers boom
Ultra high net worth investors are putting the financial crisis behind them as they increasingly shift their focus to growing…
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Could the Isle of Man become the hot new destination for stoners and techies?
It’s not often financiers and politicians say something sensible and modern about drugs or technology, but two from the Isle…
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Who will be the world’s first trillionaire?
ZERO WORSHIP In October 2013, the world’s first trillionaire appeared. Reggie Theus had never featured on rich lists, nor was…
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Duke of Devonshire says England’s country houses past crisis point
After over a century of their destruction through death, debt and divorce, England’s country houses have never been safer, according…
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The law over who children live with after divorce has just changed greatly
As of 22 April 2014 extensive family law reforms have been instituted by the Children and Families Act 2014. The…
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As Isis takes Iraq into war, which charities can help rebuild a state?
Fighting has broken out again in Iraq as extremists, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham [the Levant] (Isis), take…
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QE has worsened, not eased, our fragile global economy
Author: by Stephen Hill Five years on from Global Crunch and bankers’ bonus-driven excesses, the long-term damage is still coming…
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How to avoid being trapped in a worldwide web of reputation blunders
WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE In business we all put our fate in the hands of others. From politically exposed persons…
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How rich kids lost their footing on London’s property ladder
For the young and privileged recent graduate, the berserk London property market represents a cold harsh dose of reality as…
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If you’re thinking of coming clean to the taxman, here are the best ways to do it
HMRC have historically taken exception to the use of offshore accounts to evade UK taxes, but in years gone by…
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No appy endings with mobile wealth management
Wealth managers aren’t keeping up with technology and clients aren’t getting the most from banking apps that their banks can,…
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Are HNWs using Bitcoin to hide their assets during divorce?
Last month, after a six-year legal battle, Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev was ordered by a court in Geneva to pay…
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The best country houses of the Rich List 2014
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a billionaire in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of…
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Patronage or patronising, art under threat and wealth’s final frontier
PATRON SAINTS AND PATRON SINNERS Patronage can be a dirty word. However good-natured it is, it all too often emphasises…
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The Editor’s Letter (Issue 38)
Space: the final frontier. Well, the currently final frontier. I had the pleasure of interviewing Per Wimmer, the financier turned…
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Reinventing the football, not for the World Cup but for charity
Tim Jahnigen has reinvented the football. He picks up his creation and slowly squeezes it flat between his sizeable palms.…
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