Events
Spear's Wealth Insight Forum 2012
After its very successful debut in 2011, Spear’s Wealth Insight Forum returns to tackle key questions wealth managers, lawyers and other private client professionals have about their clients. Spear’s is perfectly placed to explain the HNW mindset and lifestyle with characteristic insight, analysis and wit
Spear's Design for Living Awards 2012
Design can and should be applied to all and any aspects of a life well-lived and the wide range of categories in the Spear’s Design for Living Awards reflect this
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
Spear's/Speechly Bircham Seminar: How to be a philanthropist in the 21st century
Spear's and Speechly Bircham will be holding their third annual seminar on Tuesday 21 February 2012 at the Auditorium, Moorgate. The theme this year is 'How to be a philanthropist in the 21st century' and will be explored by a panel of experts from the legal, wealth management and philanthropic worlds.
UPDATE: Major philanthropist John Studzinski has confirmed he will be on the panel.
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)
Prince's Trust Rock Gala
Royal Albert Hall
23 November
Pete Townshend, Boy George and Julian Lennon are among the artists on board to rock the Royal Albert Hall next month for The Prince’s Trust Rock Gala supported by Novae
Spear's IFC Forum
Spear's is in the business of connecting people, and so this year's IFC forum, sponsored by Guernsey Finance and Barclays Wealth, was the perfect event. Representatives of low-tax jurisdictions met HNWs looking for a new place to locate their assets and domicile as well as wealth managers searching for exciting investment opportunities.
Spear's IFC Forum
Spear’s will be engaging all of its readers — high net worths, wealth managers, lawyers — with a morning of panels and talks on IFCs, followed by a lunch, all at the storied Green’s in the City
Crunch: The Art and Philosophy Festival
Crunch brings together over 500 art industry professionals from curators, critics and writers to musicians, gallery directors, actors and Turner Prize-winners, to discuss the core issues facing art in contemporary society
Asian Art in London
3-12 November 2011
Asian Art in London – the annual event that uniquely brings together leading Asian art dealers, auction houses and institutions returns this November.
Books
Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour
Michael Lewis
Kyle Bass, a Texas-based hedge-fund manager who did well out of shorting the sub-prime property market before the 2008 financial crisis, used to play the international strategy board game Risk as a kid, which led him to find out everything about a tiny country called Iceland, which was a key strategic location in the game
The Gentry: Stories of the English
Adam Nicolson
How delicious the notion of the gentry is. How beautifully it shades into every kind of 19th-century fraudulence, into Eric Hobsbawm’s Invention of Tradition. How easily it locks on to the much later and altogether more middle-class idea of the gentleman
Zahawi and Hancock on 'Masters of Nothing'
Anne McElvoy
The Wide Blue Yonder
A new breed of Tory MPs emerged from the 2010 general election, and already some are making their mark. Anne McElvoy looks at two of Cameron’s cabal
HNW Events
Spear's/Speechly Bircham Seminar: How to be a philanthropist in the 21st century
21 February 2012
Spear's Young Turk Awards 2012
01 April 2012
Spear's Design for Living Awards 2012
01 May 2012
Spear's Wealth Insight Forum 2012
19 September 2012
The Diary
Mark Hix
04 Jan 2012
Amanda Palmer
22 Nov 2011
Patrick Perrin
11 Oct 2011
Nicky Haslam
05 Aug 2011
Stephen Webster
06 Jul 2011
