Asset Management
Finally, Some Truth
The public has been so shocked because finally someone has revealed to them the way the world works
Spear's Wealth Insight Forum: Highlights
Spear’s did what it does best — helping wealth managers, lawyers and other private client professionals to understand the world of their high-net-worth clients — with the first Spear’s Wealth Insight Forum
Spear's Wealth Insight Forum: Women and Wealth
What do women want? Freud was wise enough to keep silent, but we’re venturing some answers — on the subjects of money and law. Is it different from what men want? Should women only have female advisers? In the post-Radmacher world, are women better or worse off?
Spear's Wealth Insight Forum: Tax Havens
Money never sleeps, of course — it’s too busy enjoying itself in Caribbean hideaways or respectable European jurisdictions. But do IFCs — or tax havens, as their opponents call them — help the wealthy at the expense of the rest of the world? Are they even immoral?
Spear's Wealth Insight Forum: Finding The Unknown Wealthy
You can throw a stone at any window in Kensington Palace Gardens and hit an HNW’s house. But how do you find the wealthy who do not dwell in those famous precincts? And does fame always equal money?
Spear's Wealth Insight Forum: The New Class of the Super-Wealthy
The wealthy have always lived in many different countries, but do they now live on a different planet? In a world where most people are dragged down to earth by financial constraints, what do those who can afford everything value? Do they have any loyalty to anywhere — or anything?
Spear's Wealth Insight Forum: Entrepreneurs
Is there a difference between accumulating your money by manipulating numbers and making things? What are the priorities and the mindset of entrepreneurs, who often have to work years before they see any money from their business, let alone a significant liquidity event? Julie Meyer, CEO and Founder, Ariadne Capital, can tell us.
Useless Bloody Swiss!
Adoboli has done us all a favour: we all now know casino banks are definitely a waste of time and shareholders’ money.
Terry Smith, Chief Executive of Fundsmith on ETFs: 'You were warned'
The losses incurred by an allegedly rogue trader at UBS have again exposed the risks inherent in ETFs, writes Terry Smith, Chief Executive at Fundsmith in his straight talking blog
Josh Spero on the BBC World Service
Spear's editor Josh Spero has been interviewed for the BBC World Service on African investment. Click here to listen to it
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Is it really possible to avoid stamp duty land tax when purchasing land and property?
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A lot has been made recently in the press about buyers of some of the UK’s most expensive homes avoiding stamp duty land tax (SDLT) by purchasing their home through a company.
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