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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

Harrods by Appointment – Services only for the super Rich

Mohamed Al Fayed’s Knightsbridge store introduces a new ‘focus’ on personal service — to ramp up the top-end shopping experience Here’s a quick question for well-heeled brides-to-be and their harried mothers. What do you do if in order to accommodate all your friends and respect your cultural and family traditions you need to hold wedding [...]

Monday, August 3rd, 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

Thieves steal £13m of jewels from cartier in Cannes

A man with a deep suntan and wearing a flowery shirt walked into the Cartier store in Cannes and threatened staff with a gun. Two accomplices wearing crash helmets then entered the store, which is near the Carlton hotel popular with Hollywood stars during the Cannes film [...]

Wednesday, July 22nd, 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

Press Release – Launch of new Public Relation Company – Perfect Knowledge PR

PRESS RELEASE
Press Office
Perfect Knowledge PR

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Launch of new Public Relation Company – Perfect Knowledge PR
Perfect Knowledge PR offers a wide range of public relations services and communication solutions. These include corporate identity, integrated marketing communications, focused campaigns with controlled media profiles, editor level relationships, strategic advice, media PR and event marketing. Our target [...]

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Oxford the unlikely rise of the private fixer in the biggest ever arms deal. Billionaire Wafic Said straddles worlds of Saudi royals and Westminster

Wafic Said is one of Britain’s wealthiest men, owning country houses, private jets, a stable of racehorses, a Picasso and a Matisse. But how he accumulated his estimated £1bn fortune is a much more opaque question. At the age of 30, it was not obvious that he would later live such a gilded life. Born [...]

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

A fixer to the super-rich has just days to prove his claim that he has no money left

A secretive tycoon at the centre of one of Britain’s biggest divorce cases is facing jail over the whereabouts of his £400m fortune. Scot Young, a “fixer” to Russian oligarchs and British billionaires, has been told that he could be imprisoned for failing to tell a High Court judge where his money [...]

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Financier and Fixer Amanda Staveley missed a pay deal that would of made Millions. The payout would have dwarfed the £40m she earned brokering a deal for Abu Dhabi billionaire Sheik Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan to take a £3.5bn stake in Barclays last year.

The payout would have dwarfed the £40m she earned brokering a deal for Abu Dhabi billionaire Sheik Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan to take a £3.5bn stake in Barclays last year. Ms Staveley planned to use her own vehicle, a spin-off from her PCP Capital Partners [...]

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

The Rich List 2009 –

Rich List 2009
1 Lakshmi Mittal and family £10,8000m
2 Roman Abramovich £7,000m
3 The Duke of Westminster £6,500m
4 Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli £5,000m
5 Hans Rausing and family £4,000m
6 Sir Philip and Lady Green £3,830m
7 Charlene and Michel de Carvalho £2,960m
8 Sammy and Eyal Ofer £2,677m
9= David and Simon Reuben £2,500m
9= Joe Lewis £2,500m
9= John Fredriksen £2,500m
9= Kirsten [...]

Saturday, June 6th, 2009