Spear's Wealth Management Survey

Spear's Young Turk Awards 2012

The Awards celebrate rising stars, aged under 35, in all areas of the private client world: tax and trust lawyer; family lawyer; wealth manager; private banker; accountant; art adviser; property adviser

How can I guard against buying a fake painting?

As art has out-performed equities in recent years, I am thinking of buying art for investment. How can I avoid the sort of disputes I've seen reported where people buy art and then find out it belongs to someone else or it's fake?

Free Tickets for the London Art Fair

Spear's and the Cynthia Corbett Gallery are pleased to offer Spear's readers the chance to win one of 35 pairs of tickets to the London Art Fair (18-22 January, Business Design Centre, Islington)

Spear's New Campaign: You Are the 1 Per Cent

If you are reading this, the chances are that you are either in the 1 Per Cent or you work or are associated with the 1 Per Cent

Interior Designer Vivien Greenock on Quality, Taste and Shunning the Limelight

Lady of the Cloth

Vivien Greenock has made a celebrated career out of discreet good taste in her interior design. In a rare interview, she talks to William Cash about disappearing behind her clients, including Oscar de la Renta and John Fairchild, and why substandard fabric just won’t do

Art Fund membership increases by 15%

Membership of the UK’s national fundraising charity, the Art Fund, has increased by 15% in 2011 to just fewer than 90,000 members, thanks to the enormous success of the launch of the National Art Pass in April this year

Should the Public Spend £50m on a Titian Painting?

Yes, By Jupiter!

Is it really worth £50 million of public money for a masterpiece by one of the greatest artists ever, just so it can stay in Britain and be a source of joy and inspiration to heaven knows how many, asks Ivan Lindsay

Launch of Edwina Sandys Art 

Let's Do Launch

Manhattan has gone dotty for a new book on Edwina Sandys, the flame-haired painter, sculptor and granddaughter of Winston Churchill. Quite right, too, says Anthony Haden-Guest

CEO Jean-Marc Jacot on the Secret of Parmigiani's Success

A Mark of Quality

Parmigiani Fleurier CEO Jean-Marc Jacot tells Spear’s the secrets behind the brand’s success, from Bugatti to Beijing, and reveals how it’s building for the future 

Using Your Paintings as Collateral

I am looking to raise capital to fund a business venture using some paintings the family have owned for many generations as collateral. What is the best way to do this?