London Family Office Network Launches Member-Only Peer-to-Peer Networking Club
28 March 2012
Global Partnership Family Offices is this week launching a new members-only proposition called the Private Office Club. Driven by family office needs, this will be a closed network exclusively for family office principals, wealth Read more…
Art Appreciation
08 March 2012
In a 1942 radio interview, the celebrated artist Henri Matisse was asked why he painted. His response: "Why, to translate my emotions, my feelings, and the reactions of my sensibility into color and design, Read more…
Selling Coins in an Estate Primer
27 January 2012
The perils and pitfalls of selling coins by heirs in an estate have been raised again by a Numismatic Ethics article in the American Numismatic Association monthly magazine The Numismatist. In this column, an Read more…
The Art of Collecting, Buying and Selling Art
14 December 2011
In 1950, the famous American art collector John Hay Whitney, bought Picasso's 1905 painting Garcon a la pipe for $30,000, a sizeable amount by the standards of the day. On the fifth of May Read more…
Uncorking in Fine Returns - Investing in Fine Wine
07 December 2011
Charles Chevalier, general manager of Lafite-Rothschild, arguably Bordeaux’s greatest chateau, gave a theatrical pause. He had just been asked by a member of the audience at Decanter magazine’s Fine Wine Encounter event in London Read more…
Drink Wine--It's Good for the Economy
19 September 2011
New York City's tap water drinkability is so good it doesn't have to be filtered. It's so drinkable, in fact, that the City's Watershed Protection Program earned it a 10-year Filtration Avoidance Determination, awarded Read more…