11/11/2014
Life Insurance For Billionaires
As Life Insurance Becomes a Critical Component of Estate Plans, Often Ultra-Wealthy Families Need As Much Coverage As They Can Get. Family Offices And Specialty Providers Can Help
11/10/2014
Italian sovereign wealth fund buys 23% of Rocco Forte Hotels
Sir Rocco launched the hotel group with his sister Olga Polizzi in 1996. It consists of the Hotel Savoy in Florence, Brown’s in London and the Balmoral in Edinburgh.
11/10/2014
American billionaire builds stake in Secure Trust
American billionaire has built a near £40m stake in Secure Trust Bank, the lender that is challenging the dominance of Britain’s biggest banks.
11/10/2014
The rich sure are different from you and Mark Mascia.
Moneyman tells of servicing NYC’s elite clients
11/10/2014
Brazilian Billionaire Goes From Bananas to Gherkin
Savills and Deloitte Real Estate, who were handling the sale, received over 200 requests for buying the skyscraper.
11/10/2014
Meet the Wolf of Pot Street.
The crime-TV magnate invested $1.5 million in an April 9 preferred-stock offering
11/10/2014
Conditions include an acceptance level of more than 50 percent and no major changes such as a sale of strategic assets. Portugal Telecom rose as much as 15 percent in Lisbon.
11/07/2014
Forbes magazine has ranked Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah as the most powerful person in the region, and 11th on its world list.
11/07/2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission is trying to slash former billionaire Samuel Wyly’s “lavish” spending after his assets were frozen, telling a bankruptcy judge that the investor is planning a spree.
11/07/2014
The definitive agreement is expected to be completed this November, the firm said.
11/07/2014
Judicial Panel Rules That Cristina de Borbón Is no Longer Under Investigation for Money Laundering
11/06/2014
Australian hedge-fund manager Stephen Fisher says he was lucky to have bought his luxury home on Sentosa, a Singapore resort island that has attracted the wealthy, in 2005, before property curbs kicked in.
11/06/2014
The Bank of Japan’s unexpected stimulus has already made the country’s richest even wealthier, adding more than $3 billion to the four top billionaires’ net worth.
11/05/2014
Hong Kong billionaireto Buy $1.89 Billion of Planes to Enter Leasing
Asia’s richest man, is entering the plane-leasing market amid a surge in travel across the world’s most populous continent.
11/05/2014
The report revealed that research by private fortune experts, Wealth X, found there had been a four per cent rise in the size of the global ultra high net-worth community
11/05/2014
Jack Ma saw the value of his wealth increase by $22.3bn in 2014, up to $25.9bn, to rank 49th in Bloomberg list topped by Bill Gates
10/31/2014
Shrien Dewani's secret gay sex life has been brought to the forefront of his murder trial in South Africa after the court heard how he slept with men and male prostitutes.
10/31/2014
Economic inequality has reached extreme levels according to a 140 page Oxfam report (pdf). According to the charity, the number of billionaires (US$) worldwide totaled 1,645 people by March 2014 – up from 793 billionaires in March 2009.
10/31/2014
It sounds like something straight out of "The Wolf of Wall Street
10/31/2014
Knightsbridge store nets sum for Qatari offshore company based in Bermuda after profits increase 13% to £122.9m