Tax Special: The View from Switzerland
Spear’s consulted someone with a ringside seat for their view of the Swiss tax situation I t is important to…
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Expert Reaction to the Budget
Spear’s is talking to wealth managment experts to find out how the Budget is going to affect you: the headline…
ByKeep Your Money: Talk to Your Family
Worse than stock markets or Ponzi schemes, the biggest threat to a family’s wealth is the family itself. Rupert Phelps…
ByG20 Special Section
Even without Ringmaster Brown’s hoopla, the G20 would still have been a momentous occasion in the current cycle of global…
ByWilliam Cash on Radio Essex
William Cash, editor-in-chief of Spear’s WMS and twice editor of the year at the PPA Awards (2007 and 2008), appeared…
ByWhat the G20 Means for Mayfair
The communique of the G20 contained potentially very damaging propositions for the denizens of Mayfair, the City and Wall Street.…
ByTax havens can survive the G20
The rhetoric of the G20 is just that: empty bluster. William Cash analyses why G20 governments are shooting themselves in…
ByThe Hidden Home Market
For the super-rich, the choicest houses are not those just anyone can see: ‘off market’ is very much on the…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
ByNight Terrors
As if global economic meltdown wasn’t enough, Barack Obama has a terrifying array of security-related concerns to keep him awake…
ByHi-Ho, Hi-Ho! It’s Off the Cliff We Go!
Jeremy McGivern on the flawed logic and mindless herd instinct that led so many property investors over the edge and…
ByDon’t Have a Kowloon, Man
For anybody wanting to flee the gloom of London, there’s a whiff of optimism to be found in the Far…
ByUpper Crust or Stale Loafers?
Have private bankers become a pointless relic or do they still offer a uniquely useful service for wealthy clients, asks…
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