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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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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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