Archive for the 'Abu Dhabi billionaire' Category

Billionaire Sheikh pays £250,000 for Household Cavalry to fly to Abu Dhabi

While speculation seems to continue regarding the spending habits of the uber-rich in these recessionary times, there’s still a strata of the society who is spending like there’s no tomorrow! The latest flashy spending comes from a billionaire Arab sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who has reportedly paid £250,000 ($377,490) to fly 30 members [...]

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

The World’s Five Longest Super Yachts

Yachts have captured the imagination of people the world over and nothing signals luxury more than the ultimate floating home. The term luxury yacht encompasses any privately owned vessel that is professionally crewed and was coined at the beginning of the 20th century when yachting for pleasure became a reality for many.
Classifying yachts into a [...]

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

One £200 million super-yacht with three Monet paintings onboard

This $400 million super-yacht was built for a Russian oligarch, Andrey Melnichenko, 37, who is worth $9.2 billion and was ranked 172 on the Forbes list of the world’s richest people. There is a large master suite as well as six luxury cabins for up to 14 guests and enough room for 42 crew members. [...]

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Threat to offshore accounts as taxman does deal with Liechtenstein

Some of the richest people in the UK will find out today if the taxman will be allowed access to details of their secret offshore accounts. The tax courts will rule on whether HM Revenue and Customs can demand information from accounts held by an estimated 500,000 Britons at 300 foreign banks with branches in [...]

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Ten facts on tiny principality of Liechtenstein

1. The Principality of Liechtenstein is one of only two countries in the world that are doubly landlocked — that is surrounded by other countries that are also landlocked — which means that its inhabitants have to cross at least two borders before reaching the coast. The other such country is [...]

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Argentina win the Cartier Day at Guards Polo Club for the Coronation Cup

It has been 9 years since Argentina last came to England to play on Cartier Day at Guards Polo Club for the Coronation Cup, and it was an extremely warm welcome that waited for them on this, the 25th Anniversary of Cartier’s sponsorship of this huge polo spectacle. On average, 25,000 people flock to Guards to [...]

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

Sheikh Who Backed Barclays Gets Another Shot With Qatar’s Money

On a March morning in Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial City on the Persian Gulf, a red flame shrouded in black smoke shoots into the haze from a 650-foot stack. The burst of fire is burning off excess fuel as workers rush to finish equipment that will help the nation, already the world’s biggest exporter of [...]

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Launch of new website Perfect Knowledge PR www.perfectknowledgepr.com

PRESS RELEASE
Press Office
Perfect Knowledge PR
27 Mallard House
Townmead Road
London
SW6 2BF
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Perfect Knowledge PR would like to announce the launch of our new web site www.perfectknowledgepr.com. Prefect Knowledge PR is an independent consultancy aimed at the luxury media market.
Perfect Knowledge PR represents the private interests of Perfect Knowledge Ltd, which provides a premium bespoke service to [...]

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

The worlds wealthiest royals

No. 1 on Forbes’ list, for the second year in a row, is Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej. He is worth $30 billion, $5 billion less than last year, as a result of double-digit declines in real estate and stocks owned via the Crown Property Bureau, the state investment vehicle of which he is a trustee. [...]

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Even as police investigate £80m P/onzi scheme, some ‘victims’ can’t believe it

Fraud squad detectives have embarked upon a unique attempt to break the stranglehold that a group of suspected fraudsters holds over hundreds of investors. Clients of Business Consulting International (BCI), a Knightsbridge-based investment firm accused of running an £80 million Ponzi scheme, are being invited to public meetings by [...]

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Russian billionaires oligarchs favourite fixer and English lawyer met his horrifying death

It is 6.56pm on March 3, 2004. A brand new, six-seater, £1.5million Agusta A109E helicopter lands under an overcast sky at Battersea heliport in South London. Waiting impatiently and clutching his two mobile phones is a broad-shouldered lawyer named Stephen Curtis.
The 45-year-old climbs aboard and manoeuvres his bulky frame into a rear seat. At 6.59pm [...]

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Millionaire Fair Moscow 2009

Held in Moscow for the first time, the Summer Fair is a smaller version of the giant luxury market, the Millionaire Fair. “It’s definitely smaller, but the level of the participants is higher,” said Yelena Kudozova, the managing director of the Millionaire Fair. She listed carmakers McClaren and jewelry brand Piaget as examples.
Highlighting the exclusivity [...]

Thursday, July 16th, 2009