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Friday 29 August 2008

Dare to dream and make your ultimate trip a reality

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Clemency Burton-Hill

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Any other business?

Martin Vander Weyer

5th March, 2008

What scrapes ice, picks locks, tempts shoppers - and bolsters shaken banks?

Leadership lessons from Beowulf

Margareta Pagano

5th March, 2008

Margareta Pagano on why businessmen should watch Robert Zemeckis' latest film

New oil giants rise in Gandhi’s native land

Richard Orange

5th March, 2008

Richard Orange visits the Mahatma’s stony homeland in north-west India — and finds local tycoons competing to build oil refineries that will dwarf capacity in Europe

Darling has offered an incentive for chicanery

George Trefgarne

27th February, 2008

George Trefgarne argues that nationalisation undermines fundamental principles of honesty and trust in banking

Whatever happened to Sir Richard Evans?

Eric Ellis

27th February, 2008

Eric Ellis tracks down the former chairman of BAE Systems amid the wintry steppes of Kazakhstan, where he is trying to introduce Western notions of corporate governance

Was ABN Amro a deal too far for Fred the Shred?

Matthew Lynn

20th February, 2008

Matthew Lynn says Royal Bank of Scotland chief Sir Fred Goodwin’s reputation is on the line as he struggles to make a success of a very expensive acquisition

Don’t let them kill off the cheque

Ross Clark

20th February, 2008

Ross Clark laments the decline of cheques

Any Other Business

Martin Vander Weyer

20th February, 2008

In the end, they may have to auction what’s left of Northern Rock on eBay

You wouldn’t buy Britain in this state, so why hold your cash in pounds?

Merryn Somerset Webb

13th February, 2008

Merryn Somerset Webb on investing in currencies

The wisdom of selling ahead of the crowd

Dominic Prince

13th February, 2008

Dominic Prince says that some of the world’s canniest investors have consolidated their fortunes by moving into cash as soon as economic storm clouds started to gather

Members only: the sociable way to invest

Edie G. Lush

13th February, 2008

Edie G. Lush discovers how a wealthy elite are clubbing together to buy into high-growth private companies

The East powers ahead while America stumbles

Ian Cowie

13th February, 2008

Ian Cowie asks whether high-growth economies such as China’s are a safer bet than those of the debt-laden West

The timeless beauty of a Stradivari

Joanna Pitman

13th February, 2008

Joanna Pitman says owning a valuable Italian violin is doubly rewarding if it is played by a great musician

Congratulations on your prosperity, but go cautiously in the Year of the Rat

Steven Vines

13th February, 2008

Steven Vines on the City Life

Farewell to Scottish & Newcastle ...

Simon Nixon

6th February, 2008

... And good riddance to the beerage.

The entrepreneur’s art: buying, building, selling

Judi Bevan

6th February, 2008

Judi Bevan meets David Young, who served in Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet before chairing Cable & Wireless and creating his own successful private-equity business

Scrabbling to save the monolines

Martin Vander Weyer

5th February, 2008

Martin Vander Weyer on the next thing to cause heartburn in the financial markets.

Farewell to Asia’s greatest kleptocrat

Eric Ellis

30th January, 2008

Eric Ellis says the death of Indonesia’s former dictator may spur attempts to recover the loot accumulated by his family

The disappearing bezzle

Christopher Fildes

30th January, 2008

The societe generale scandal

Why it’s raining dividends in Wales

Neil Collins

30th January, 2008

Neil Collins meets Nigel Annett, who runs Welsh Water — a unique utility company which operates without shareholders and distributes profits back to its customers