Spear's Wealth Management Survey

About Us

Spear’s is the multi-award-winning wealth management and luxury lifestyle media brand whose flagship magazine has become a must-read for the ultra-high-net- worth (UHNW) community. It is also required reading for the affluent financial services community, including the bankers, lawyers and family offices who advise the wealthy.

Since its launch in 2006, Spear’s has established itself as Europe’s leading wealth management authority, as well as for its witty and incisive commentary on arts, business and lifestyle. Using print, digital, events, awards and research- based products and services, Spear’s is uniquely placed to connect financial and luxury brands to this exclusive and elusive audience.

The Spear’s readership is made up of extremely wealthy individuals and families (average assets of £5 million+) and ranges from hedge fund managers to property developers, rock stars to Rich-Listers, entrepreneurs and entertainers. Spear’s aims to provide an informative, entertaining and objective guide to all aspects of the high- net-worth lifestyle, from its problems to its pleasures.

Spear’s has been called 'the Bible of the banking fraternity' by GQ, 'a European rival to Forbes' by the Evening Standard and 'the New Yorker of finance' by the Independent, and goes to 30,000 of Europe’s decision-makers and wealth-creators.

William Cash, Editor-in-Chief of Spear’s, has twice won Editor of the Year at the Independent Publishers Awards (2007 and 2008), and Spear's was nominated for Consumer Magazine of the Year 2009 and 2010 at the BSME Awards and 2010 at the Independent Publishers Awards.

Spear’s is published by Spear Publishing Ltd.

Editor-in-Chief William Cash william.cash@spearswms.com
Editor Josh Spero josh.spero@spearswms.com
Deputy Editor Christopher Silvester
Managing Editor Emily Rookwood emily.rookwood@spearswms.com
Luxury and Travel Editor John Arlidge
Economics Editor Stephen Hill
Staff Writer Sophie McBain sophie.mcbain@spearswms.com
Head, Spear's Research Unit Freddy Barker freddy.barker@spearswms.com
Assistant Researcher, Spear's Research Unit Mark Nayler mark.nayler@spearswms.com

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Jiggs Patel at jpatel@progressivemediagroup.com or call 020 7936 6946 or 07903 255 295

If you are interested in holding an event with Spear's, please contact:

Wendy Coumantaros at wendy@spearswms.com or call 020 7936 6918 or 07711 088 754

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Contributors:

Marlon Abela is a founder of MARC Ltd, whose portfolio includes MARC Fine Wines, Morton's, Umu and the Greenhouse
Tanzeel Akhtar contributes to Marketing Week and Wall Street Journal
John Arlidge writes for The Sunday Times in London, for Conde Nast in New York
Clive Aslet is editor-at-large of Country Life
Douglas Blyde writes about leading chefs, wines and restaurant designers
Jane Brown is the author of The Omnipotent Magician
Sangna Chauhan is a private client solicitor at Speechly Bircham LLP
Ross Clark is a property expert who writes for The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator
John Cromartie is a Scottish landowner and mountaineer who cares about keeping wild land wild
Dr Chris Donegan is CEO of Fraserburgh
Thomas Duggins is a family solicitor at Charles Russell LLP
William Drake is co-founder of Lord North Street, a private investment office
Duncan Forgan is a freelance writer based in Saigon, Vietnam
Nick Foulkes is the author of books on James Bond, cigars, porcelain and the trenchcoat
Caroline Garnham is a tax and trust solicitor and founder of Family Bhive
Charles Gothard is head of International Private Clients at Speechly Bircham LLP
Anthony Haden-Guest writes about art for Saatchi online
Stephen Hill is a businessman, publisher and economist
John Hitchcox runs the residential design and development company YOO (yoo.com)
Mark Hix is a celebrated chef, food writer and one of London's most eminent restaurateurs
Luke Johnson is the author of Start it Up: Why Running Your Own Business Is Easier Than You Think (Portfolio, Penguin)
Steve King works for Vanity Fair in London
Stewart Lansley is the author of The Cost of Inequality: Three Decades of the Super-Rich and the Economy (Gibson Square)
Mark Le Fanu is a cultural commentator who has published critical studies of the directors Tarkovsky and Mizoguchi
Ivan Lindsay is an art dealer specialising in European and Russian paintings
Matthew Lynn is a columnist for Wall Street Journal MarketWatch and the author of Bust: Greece, the Euro and the Sovereign Debt Crisis
Charles MacKinnon is a founding partner at Thurleigh Investment Managers
Anne McElvoy is public policy editor of the Economist and presents Night Waves on BBC Radio 3
Irene McMillan works for Kingsley Napley Solicitors
Gina Miller has a 'roll-your-sleeves-up' approach to philanthropy and works with small community charities
Guy Monson is CIO and managing partner of Sarasin & Partners
Andrei Navrozov is a Muscovite who dreams in Elizabethan English
Rebecca Nayler was an editorial assistant at Spear's.
Patrick Perrin founded the Pavilion of Art & Design
Caroline Phillips has written for the Evening Standard, The Daily Telegraph, The Times and the Financial Times, among others
Daisy Prince has worked at Vanity Fair and ES Magazine
Rory Ross is a freelance journalist who knows everything about going downhill fast
Sharon Ser is a partner at Withers in Hong Kong
Christopher Silvester is a freelance journalist and editorial consultant
William Sitwell is editor of Waitrose Kitchen
Bridget Stott is a freelance writer and design fanatic
Oliver Thring is a travel and food writer
Alessandro Tome works in the hedge-fund world
Peter York is a columnist for Independent on Sunday
Joe Warwick writes about restaurants. He's currently working on Where Chefs Eat