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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: Privacy
The newspapers never lose their fascination with the moneyed: where they go, what they buy, who they’re with — day and night. Does being wealthy mean you don’t have any privacy? How can you protect the privacy you do have?
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?
Letšeng Star, 14th largest diamond, unveiled
Gem Diamonds is delighted to announce the naming and unveiling of the historic 550 carat diamond recovered from the Letšeng mine in Lesotho
Cash on Class on Radio 4
Spear's editor-in-chief William Cash will be appearing a new two-part series on Radio 4 about class at 9am on 8 September 2011
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Hey Mr DJ, Put a Record On
If you want to twist the night away at a soigné soirée, you must have a superstar DJ, says Victoria Aitken
Pregnant Paws
My advice to women about to have their first baby? Ignore everybody’s advice — and watch out for men who want to grope your bump, says Daisy Prince
Reserve Currency
The Chagos Archipelago, with its countless coral and fish, has faced environmental pillaging. Ernesto Bertarelli explains how he came to invest in their survival
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
