Spear's Wealth Management Survey

General

FT: Italian govt seizing superyachts

Rome's crackdown on suspected tax dodgers has unsettled owners of super-yachts considering Italy as a summer destination following the tax police's seizure of the 63-metre Force Blue owned by tycoon Flavio Briatore.

ISIS Dinner

Camilla Stopford-Sackville, Lady Emily Compton, India Langton

“One thousand two hundred pounds for the blonde lady. Um, sorry – I don’t want to be blondist.” Sotheby’s Chairman Henry Windham, who conducted the auction last Thursday night at the inaugural ISIS ladies’ charity dinner, wasn’t exactly struggling with the task of selling luxury items off to a roomful of discerning City, society and scientist belles.

MoMA's Gathering of the Brave

Billed as a festival of daring ideas, the Courage Forum featured visionary and brave individuals who had overcome personal circumstance or the social status quo to blaze a trail that challenges contemporary thinking and inspires others.

John Arlidge on R4, at the Frontline Club

John Arlidge, one of Spear's contributing editors and a nominee for the Orwell Prize 2010 for his interview with Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, has featured in BBC Radio 4's Profile strand, talking about Blankfein.

At the Sharp End: Rocco Forte

In a new feature, Spear’s grills a major figure from the worlds of wealth management, business or culture. First is hotelier Sir Rocco Forte

Refashioning Myself

Having taken herself back across the Atlantic, Daisy Prince finds that what is fabulous in London is merely frou-frou in New York

For the Im-Patient

Your health deserves a hurry — Penelope Bennett finds that Viavi does not just offer the Rolls-Royce of healthcare but does it in a trice

The Discriminator Dines Out

'Perennial favourites' is such an interesting expression. It denotes much of what we are about as creatures. Or at least much of the more pleasant side of what we are.

Mailboxes Etc

Alessandro Tomé on the perils of not only checking one’s emails but actually opening and replying to them, too

Something Old, Something New

Penelope Bennett meets Louise Bradley, the interior designer famous for her antique-contemporary style. Now if only she had room for her own antiques...

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Spear's Salon

A Very English Revolution

“...The battle over the government’s planning reforms was a very English Revolution.”

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Books

Spear's/Amazon Bookstore

You can buy all the books reviewed in Spear's and mentioned in it or on spearswms.com in the Spear's/Amazon Bookstore

Spear's Book Awards 2012: Nominate here

The fourth Spear’s Book Awards, celebrating the very best writing talent and British books of the year — from finance to fiction — will take place in late June at a glamorous literary lunch in central London

Ashenden Found: On the Trail of a Missing Somerset Maugham Book

Nigel West

Nigel West dons his dark glasses and fedora and heads to the Hotel d'Angleterre in Geneva, where Somerset Maugham stayed as a spy in the First World War. Has Maugham's destroyed book been found?