Spear's Wealth Management Survey

Issue 14 (Winter 2009/10)

1  Leaders (Tory Time; New Year, New Life; Courageous Bankers)
10  Contributors      
12  From the Editor 
14  The Hedgehog
20  David Linley’s Diary 

24  SPEAR’S AWARDS
The winners, the pictures, the speeches

28  SHOT BEFORE DAWN
Pictures from the Speechly Bircham seminar, plus how the wealthy can keep their privacy

FEATURES
38  TIME FLIES WHEN YOU’RE HEDGING FUNDS
William Cash observes the rehabilitation of that reviled tribe, hedgies

43  GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY
John Arlidge gained unprecedented access to Goldman Sachs: here he explains how he did it

44  MAKING A DRAMA OUT OF A CRISIS
Scott Rudmann reveals what led to his role in David Hare’s Power of Yes

46  MY FRIEND THE PONZI SCHEMER
Jonathan Chambers on how a childhood pal became the Jamaican Madoff

48  PARTNERS IN CRIME 
Spear’s puts high net worths in the dock in a round table with Tuckers’ top team

52  ALPHAONE MALE 
William Cash profiles star  HNW investment adviser Nicolas Sarkis about life after Goldman

56  WHOLE NEW BALL GAME
Josh Spero talks to Rupert Robinson of Schroders about crisis and cricket

57  MARGINS FOR ERROR
Frederick Barker finds that all is flux among wealth managers, but not all are ready for the new world order

58  ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE
Sophie Walker on TED, a Davos for the online generation

60  BANG ON TIME
Jean-Claude Biver of Hublot  believes that every second counts, Josh Spero finds

64  READING THE CLASSIFIEDS
Nigel West on why you need to read between the lines in top secret histories

67  US SPECIAL
68  HAPPY FAMILIES   
Family offices are the firms of the future, says Daisy Prince

72  OFF SHORE, OUT OF MIND?
Where can wealthy Americans stash their cash now that tax havens are under fire, asks Christopher Silvester

74  PHOENIX FROM THE FRAMES
Anthony Haden-Guest talks to Asher Edelman, Wall Street raider turned art world  innovator

78  THERE’S NO ‘I’ IN ‘PRIVATE BANKER’ 
Penelope Bennett talks to key players and learns that private banking in America is finally in vogue

COLUMNS
22  FYI        
The Family Office Exchanges

32  WALL STREET WIRE
Rob Cox

34  THE VIEW FROM ST PAUL’S 
Guy Monson

35  THE LAW 
Caroline Garnham

36  THE VIEW FROM NOWHERE     
Vanessa Neumann

REGULARS
82  BOOK REVIEWS 
Lords of Finance by James Strachan and Madness Under the Palms by Christopher Silvester

85  LOUCHE LIFE 
Andrei Navrozov on the clash of the oligarchs

FOOD & WINE SPECIAL       
86  Ian Pengelly is putting the spice into Gilgamesh, says William Sitwell

88  Simon Davis on how limp chicken led him to found the London Restaurant Festival

90  Paris’s finest wine cellar is up for sale, says Margaret Kemp

92  Kimberly Jordan discovers that wine online needn’t cause sour grapes

94  Top chefs teach Spear’s how to Tiff – and you can learn too

ENTERTAINING     
96  Lucinda Bruce and Victoria Cator on how to have the perfect Christmas

98  Bianca Brigitte Bonomi meets London’s chicest party planners

104  ART    
Ivan Lindsay on the renaissance of the legendary Russian jewellers, Fabergé

108  TRAVEL   
Penelope Bennett hits the bullseye at Bovey Castle, one of England’s last great sporting estates

112  THE DISCRIMINATOR 
Alessandro Tomé thinks airlines should follow postmen and strike; plus, The Discriminator Dines Out

114  HEALTH
Dread getting older? We should embrace its opportunities, says Penelope Bennett

116  COUNTRY WIRE
Clive Aslet sees that the fruit doesn’t fall far from the family tree
 
118  PROPERTY   
They have the money and the desire, so why aren’t the Chinese snapping up our mansions, asks Ross Clark

120  MID-ATLANTIC GIRL     
...is becoming New York Girl? Daisy Prince bids adieu to her London loves