Nick Cohen Nick Cohen

Servants of the super-rich

London’s greatest growth industry is catering to foreign plutocrats — and someone sent us its trade directory

‘Let me tell you about the very rich,’ said F. Scott Fitzgerald. ‘They are different from you and me.’ Indeed they are. They can afford to live in London.

Just how different became clear when The Spear’s 500 — ‘the essential guide to the top private client advisers’ — landed at the office.

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