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Why recent protests are a wake-up call for HNWs
The recent protests are a wake-up call for HNWs, and they need to respond decisively After months of living in the anxious discomfort of lockdowns,…
Billionaire parents go to war with Le Rosey, the world’s most expensive school
With fees of $130,000 per year, Le Rosey, on the edge of Lake Geneva is the most expensive school in the world. As the billionaire parents of a for…
Letters to the editor: Life after Covid, yachting and remote justice
Readers and experts share their views on life after Covid, yachting and remote justice in response to issue 74 of Spear’s Innovation will hel…
How Homeland tracked the temper of our times
Its popularity might have dwindled as the show went on, but Homeland was a show that tracked the temper of our times: paranoid, cynical and surveil…
The Charities Aid Foundation: ‘Covid-19 has been a huge shock to the charitable sector’
The Charities Aid Foundation can help people make their philanthropy as effective as possible Mark Greer, Head of private clients, Charities Aid Fo…
‘Until lockdown, this had been London’s century’
It has been extraordinary to walk around London without people, but wouldn’t city dwellers rather be in the country or by the sea? Anyone not…
Moments in Money: The volatility index
In this edition of our series highlighting key moments in the history of finance, we’re taking a look at the prescient issue of volatility Vo…
Dame Steve Shirley CH on Zoom, philanthropy and her upcoming biopic
From IT and feminism pioneer to revered philanthropist, Dame Stephanie Shirley CH describes her eventful, fulfilling life We think Zoom and Skype a…
Is the dress watch set to make a comeback?
Could a change in our habits mean a comeback for dress watches? If so, it’s not before time If office life will never be the same again, so too wil…
Coleen, Rebekah, and why there’s no such thing as an ‘almost’ failed mediation
Litigation can be all-consuming, so here’s wishing Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy good luck, should they decide to try mediation again, wri…
Take the Spear’s survey to be in with a chance of winning a luxury weekend stay
It takes just five minutes and you could win a weekend away in one of the world’s top hotels Spear’s places huge value on the opinions of its…
Family offices cool on private equity, according to UBS report
Coronavirus fallout has prompted single-family offices to reassess alternative investments such as private equity, according to a major new report …
Without philanthropists, the Old Vic ‘would be a car park or a block of flats’
Without philanthropy, the Old Vic wouldn’t exist. The show must go on, say two of its leading lights Tina Alexandrou & Kate Varah, Donor/truste…
Wealth management opinion: Time to get active
Europe’s UHNWs and their wealth managers need to adjust their approach to risk in the second half of 2020, says Harinder Hundle Ever since the glob…
Wealth management opinion: ‘This year our industry has a chance to show its value’
The chaos of the pandemic offers the industry a chance to develop, writes Nataša Williams Reference to ‘disruption’ and ‘disruptors’ has become a f…
The Spear’s Wealth Management Index 2020
The world has changed for everyone in the past six months, and the wealth managers in our index recognise that the old ways of investing will never…
The ‘black swan’ funds that cleaned up during the coronavirus crisis
‘Black Swan’ funds cleaned up as coronavirus laid waste to the markets – but are they worth the sacrifice of missing out on big returns during the …
William Sitwell meets Olivia Burt: ‘A chef with a dream and she doesn’t have a restaurant’
After impressing on MasterChef: The Professionals, Olivia Burt of Claridge’s will be a young chef to watch when our restaurants finally open up aga…
Post-Covid-19, retail faces a new world
Coronavirus will fundamentally change the way we work, eat, exercise and shop, says Lucia van der Post If there is one thing the coronavirus pandem…
Islands in the storm: How the BVI is making a comeback
David Dawkins finds the British Virgin Islands are bouncing back with a vengeance after Hurricane Irma In summer 2017 the British Virgin Islands we…