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The Play's the Thing
A producer seeks funds to bring Great Expectations to the London stage. Will he be plucking Scrooge's [golden] goose or will it be Hard Times, wonders Mark Nayler
Horse Sense
You can put your money on a horse but it may well fall off. Far better to put it on a painting, says Steve King
Stanhope and Jewson talk to Spear's about acquisition
Stanhope Capital will create a new division focussing on the charitable sector, to be named Stanhope Jewson. The combined group will be overseeing approximately USD7.5 billion in assets and will have 58 employees working from offices located in London and Geneva
Great Expectations for Angel Investors
Ingenious medical inventions and Great Expectations took centre stage at the second Beer and Partners investment fair of 2011 on Tuesday
Touch of Evill
The collection was amassed by Evill and left to his Honour Frost, his orphaned ward, whose death has brought this wonderful hotchpotch of paintings, drawings, furniture and porcelain to market
Midnight Feasts for James Middleton
More at home with finance mags than gossip rags, Spear’s has never had much interest in celebrity eating habits. That is, until we were handed a copy of Midnight Feasts: An Anthology of Late Night Munchies at a launch of the London on a Plate app at Mortons, and learnt what James Middleton reaches for after dark
Class War at Hay-on-Wye
Class war is normally an abstract concept. But it nearly became reality at How the Lights Get In, a Spear’s-sponsored philosophy festival in Hay-on-Wye, when hedge funder Jonathan Bailey declared to New Statesman journalist Laurie Penny that the 'Sunday Times Rich Listers aren't actually rich' and that to be worthy, ‘you need at least $1 billion’
For City boys and gulls
The annual Gulls' Eggs City Luncheon brings together 600 of London's top wealth managers, bankers and lawyers to feast on the eggs and plum cake
Norwegians Would
With all the hullabaloo made over sovereign wealth funds, it's surprising that one of the largest is one of the most discreet. Or perhaps not so surprising when you consider that it is Norway's, a country not known for aggressive self-promotion
Unbillable Hours
Our specialists solve your HNW problems (gratis!)
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Is it really possible to avoid stamp duty land tax when purchasing land and property?
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A lot has been made recently in the press about buyers of some of the UK’s most expensive homes avoiding stamp duty land tax (SDLT) by purchasing their home through a company.
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