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Q4, 2023 Contents 30 20 48 The Agenda 16 EDITOR’S LETTER By Edwin Smith 18 READERS’ LETTERS Our readers share their views 20 DIARY With HIDE restaurant co-founder and executive chef Ollie Dabbous 22 PHILANTHROPY Petros Stathis of Monterock and Nammos on education in developing nations 24 SHOT BEFORE DAWN Photographs from the Spear’s 500 Live event at the Savoy 26 THE HEDGEHOG News from the HNW universe, from property to finance and blue plaques 28 BOOKS Chris Blackhurst’s Man Utd profile 30 LIQUID LUNCH Fortnum & Mason CEO Tom Athron 32 MATTHEW GOODWIN High-tax, high-spend, big-state Britain is here to stay, whoever is in power 33 ANNAMARIA KOERLING With so many HNWs on the move, the race is on to attract family offices 34 ROBERT AMSTERDAM Why the Coutts v Nigel Farage farrago should have us all worried 35 JONATHAN TAPLIN This generation of billionaire tech barons are a danger to the planet The Briefing 37 TAX 38 THE LABOUR EXCHANGE The Spear’s Tax Survey 42 A TALE OF TWO TAXES What next for the increasingly lucrative capital gains tax and IHT ? 44 FLIGHT PLANS Non-doms are making preparations in case they need to leave the UK 48 SHIFTING SANDS The UAE is slowly adapting to life with VAT and corporate taxes 50 TERMS OF ENDEARMENT Labour’s plan to tax private school fees is already a hot election topic
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11 Adenike Sicard of BVI Finance was among the speakers at Spear’s 500 Live at the Savoy, where leading advisers to UHNWs discussed the changing world of wealth SPEAR’S 500 LIVE, p24 The Issues 51 Arcadia 52 HOSTAGE TO FORTUNES The huge transfer of wealth from Boomers to younger generations will be a dangerous time for global capitalism, banker Ken Costa tells Alec Marsh 60 RISE OF THE INTRO-FLUENCER Family offices are naturally private operations – but that privacy has created a market for often unscrupulous networkers, says Robert Jackman 64 A PRIVATE FUNCTION The democratisation of private markets creates both opportunities and danger for individual investors 72 STAYING THE COURSE Nicolas Mirabaud tells us how the venerable Swiss family firm is adapting to the 21st century while retaining its traditional family ethos 64 77 NICK FOULKES A tribute to architect Thierry Despont 78 DAISY DUNN How the Romans established the rules of dinner party conversation 79 SAM LEITH The role of money in children’s literature 80 JOSEPH BULLMORE A novel and complex approach to promoting a new wine label The Good Life 85 86 FAREWELL LE GAVROCHE It ’s the end of an era as the Mayfair restaurant prepares to close for good 89 ROBUST FORTIFICATIONS Jonathan Ray on sherry 90 PARTNERS IN TIME Alliances between watch companies and luxury brands can sometimes bear fruit 95 THE ULTIMATE WHISTLE- STOP TOUR A memorable trip on the modern incarnation of the Orient Express 98 THE DRAM TEAM How the Last Drop is reinventing the spirits industry, with delectable results 100 NEW RULES OF DIAMONDS Fashion’s trendsetters are matching diamond jewellery with casual clothing 82 SARAH GRANT Exploring the rise of ‘clubstaurants’ in elite New York society 83 ELIOT WILSON Behind the recent emergence of the chief of staff role in businesses 80 104 STRONG, SILENT TYPE John Arlidge explains why the Rolls-Royce Spectre is the best electric car ever 108 GREEK MYTH The party island of Mykonos is being pulled in two directions 114 MIDAS With golf legend Miguel Ángel Jiménez 90

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Q4, 2023

Contents

30

20

48

The Agenda

16 EDITOR’S LETTER

By Edwin Smith

18 READERS’ LETTERS

Our readers share their views

20 DIARY

With HIDE restaurant co-founder and executive chef Ollie Dabbous

22 PHILANTHROPY

Petros Stathis of Monterock and Nammos on education in developing nations

24 SHOT BEFORE DAWN

Photographs from the Spear’s 500 Live event at the Savoy

26 THE HEDGEHOG

News from the HNW universe, from property to finance and blue plaques

28 BOOKS

Chris Blackhurst’s Man Utd profile

30 LIQUID LUNCH

Fortnum & Mason CEO Tom Athron

32 MATTHEW GOODWIN

High-tax, high-spend, big-state Britain is here to stay, whoever is in power

33 ANNAMARIA KOERLING

With so many HNWs on the move, the race is on to attract family offices

34 ROBERT AMSTERDAM

Why the Coutts v Nigel Farage farrago should have us all worried

35 JONATHAN TAPLIN

This generation of billionaire tech barons are a danger to the planet

The Briefing 37

TAX

38 THE LABOUR EXCHANGE

The Spear’s Tax Survey

42 A TALE OF TWO TAXES

What next for the increasingly lucrative capital gains tax and IHT ?

44 FLIGHT PLANS

Non-doms are making preparations in case they need to leave the UK

48 SHIFTING SANDS

The UAE is slowly adapting to life with VAT and corporate taxes

50 TERMS OF ENDEARMENT

Labour’s plan to tax private school fees is already a hot election topic

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