Spear's Wealth Management Survey

Cash on Class on Radio 4

Spear's editor-in-chief William Cash will be appearing in a new two-part series on Radio 4 about class at 9am on 8 September 2011.

The broad narrative sweep of the series is that contrary to what people might think, given the expansion of university, higher education places and participation schemes, it's actually harder for someone born into the working classes now to climb the economic ladder to the middle class than it was forty years ago.
 
The programme will be investigating the reasons for this - and exploring the disagreements between leading academics and policy makers as to how true this is - and does it vary in certain professions?
 
We will also be looking at the workplace and what structures are in place so that people can have genuine career progression if they so desire; what factors and policies can be introduced to try and tweak opportunity; and how the employment landscape has changed in the UK over the past 40 years. We've moved from a manufacturing based economy to a service economy which has benefits and losses to certain sections of society.

William will be talking about how the super wealthy have fared over this period. Most economists, when they can agree about anything, do agree that the wealthy have become wealthier over the past couple of decades. London has always been the capital of social mobility and what we're now seeing now is a new tribe of the global super rich.
 
He will offer his thoughts on whether that group are too detached or not from the rest of society.