Spear's Salon
Strong Opinion from our Stable of Star Turns
William Cash
William Cash is Editor-in-Chief of Spear's WMS and has twice won Editor of the Year at the PPA Awards (2007 and 2008).
Letter from Davos
The point of the five-day summit is about reminding oneself that it’s not too late to be taken seriously again, to be seen as a visionary
Brandy and Circuses
'Brandy and circuses’ is what I told artist Adam Dant when I commissioned him to do the cover of this issue
Cartier Racing Awards
The exclusive annual dinner for the good, great, rich and beautiful of international racing society celebrated 20 years of Cartier’s creation of the “Oscars” of the racing world
Making Up For It
Elton’s Winter Ball was the first party I have ever been to in which as I waited to go to the gents, I was asked if I would like my make-up ‘refreshed’
From William Cash
While sitting outside at a financier friend’s farmhouse near St Tropez recently, the conversation turned to an out-of-print book, published in 1975, that my friend could not stop talking about.
Cash Never Sleeps
Wall Street pulled off the difficult trick of making a supposedly evil, vile, greedy Nero of finance a compelling and almost likeable character
Editor's Letter
I have spent the last three years renovating a country house in Shropshire and I am finally ready to move in this summer.
Chapter One
My lords, ladies and gentlemen: good afternoon, and welcome to the Criterion Restaurant for the second Spear’s Book Awards.
Sorry, Your Honour
There must be some slick financiers who are living in terror, afraid of the knock on the door of their corner office
Once You Know, You Go
In my navy Budd shirt and Italian mint green trousers, I convinced myself that I was about to become murder victim 525.
Unbillable Hours
Our specialists solve your HNW problems (gratis!)
Q
Is it really possible to avoid stamp duty land tax when purchasing land and property?
A
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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