Let It Be
Renting, so common in chic Berlin and elsewhere, has never been popular in London — until now, says Ross Clark…
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Wake up and Smell the Writs
In the autumn the Supreme Court transformed divorce law in Britain. Stephen Foster of Stewarts Law assesses the status of…
ByDealing in Futures
Pictet’s Christophe Donay unrolls his map of the current financial landscape and identifies areas of relative safety and others of…
BySomething Oiled, Something New
Claudia Perotti on how the rising cost and declining supply of oil will affect your investment portfolio as well as…
ByLiquidity, Ahoy!
The good ship QE2, as the Fed’s second round of quantitative easing is snappily known, is about to set sail,…
ByTough Love
Caroline Garnham on why charities and not-for-profit organisations need to embrace the hard-nosed efficiency of successful commercial businesses ON 20…
ByDame Stephanie Shirley on her philanthropy at the Oxford Internet Institute
THE GIVER AND THE GIFT In this new column, Zain Alatas talks to a philanthropist and the recipient of their…
ByThe Sunset King
With positions from the government to the Tate, Lord Browne has never been more in demand. He tells Josh Spero…
ByRay Tooth’s Lifetime Achievement Award Speech
Ladies and gentlemen. I have never won an award in my life and therefore I was surprised, and I thought…
ByOMG, This is Major
Don’t ignore the abbreviations — the impact of the RDR on HNWs and their IFAs is going to be seismic…
ByBreaking up is hard to do
You may think you’ve divorced yourself from the UK, but the taxman sees it differently. Glen Atchison and Dhana Sabanathan…
ByMerrills lays out its 2011 vision
Merrill Lynch this morning presented their forecasts for 2011: Asia will continue to usurp Europe’s position. Freddy Barker reports IT…
ByHome All-Own
If you’ve ever thought about building your own des-res, it’s not so far from dream to drawing-board to domestic bliss…
ByChinese Whispers
All the time, beneath most people’s notice, China was making its furious progress, building clutches of power stations every month…
ByInto the Vortex
The credit crunch was caused by the obsession with and lending to the property sector, which led to Banking Crisis…
ByThe Crisis in the Family Office: Key Quotes
Here are some key quotes from the second Spear’s/Speechly Bircham seminar, ‘The crisis in the family office’, held on 20…
ByCash in the Attic
Owners of our great houses will not speak out, because at a time of austerity it would seem almost gloating…
ByInto the Dragon’s Den
As China’s financial powerhouse, Shanghai stands poised to become not only a playground for the rich but also one of…
ByThe Attorney Who Came in from the Cold
Josh Spero meets Robert Amsterdam, the crusading lawyer who cut his teeth on politically explosive cases that John le Carré…
BySite Unseen
London developers are again busily flogging off-plan apartments to Asian investors. Prospective buyers would do well to ponder the lessons…
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