the agenda
CONTENTS
‘A lot of our peers said, “You must be mad. What are you doing?”’ Jamie ritblat on a property deal that paid off, p46
NOvEmbEr/dECEmbEr 2017
the agenda 28 ThE SpEar’S WEaLTh iNSighT fOrum
12 EdiTOr’S LETTEr
14 WiLLiam CaSh 17 ThE SpEar’S LEadErS
How London’s sharpest minds debated our post-Brexit future
30 ThE givEr & ThE gifT
Sigrid Rausing and Hope Not Hate’s fight against extremism
Time for the EU to listen ❘ City job numbers ❘ Kim’s golden missiles
20 rEadErS’ LETTErS
The Common Reporting Standard
22 COSmOS
32 Liquid LuNCh
Alec Marsh meets millionaire matchmaker Inga Verbeeck
35 rObErT amSTErdam
How Trump’s disregard for laws could come back to bite us all
Global news, events and trends
24 diary
Rachel Johnson on Brexit, the Lord’s Prayer and the Apple Watch
25 ShOT bEfOrE daWN
Sir Oswald Birley launch
36 Sam LEiTh
Why true blue-bloods regularly turn the air blue
37 CEriS gardNEr
The global tax transparency drive is plotting a dangerous course
26 ThE hEdgEhOg
The latest in the HNW universe. Edited by Christopher Silvester
38 guy mONSON
How investors can emerge from the long shadow of 2008
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the issues
42 ThE CuLTuraL
EvOLuTiON Chinese buyers have reshaped the wine and art markets with their extravagant spending sprees. By Olenka Hamilton
46 riT LargE
Jamie Ritblat, founder of Delancey, tells William Cash how he’s taking real-estate investment forward
52 WhiThEr uNCLE Sam?
James Rampton looks at where the US economy might be heading under Donald Trump’s unpredictable leadership
58 mayfair rELOadEd
From Annabel’s to ambitious newcomers, Mayfair’s clubland is reinventing itself, says Christopher Silvester
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