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Angels and unicorns
‘There’s definitely more money than talent out there.’ That’s the view of one seasoned London tech investor, and it presents…
Generation Spendthrift
Your first pay packet, in your first ‘proper’ job, almost seems like a miracle. So much money, coming straight into…
Beware Bordelais greed
Alternative investment » Wine The world of wine investment has certainly changed since I last wrote about it for The…
Voyage of adventure
‘Better to be a pirate than join the navy’: the words of Apple founder Steve Jobs and an appropriate motto…
Turn yourself into a bank
Hard-pressed savers in search of decent rates of return are increasingly turning to the world of ‘alternative finance’. In the…
Land of Rising Prospects
Tucked into an office above a Sainsbury’s Local in a quiet street in York, the GLG Japan Core Alpha team…
Alibaba’s secrets
By any measure, the listing of Alibaba Group on the New York Stock Exchange in September was a whopper. It…
The death of bonds
Bonds are meant to be boring. Yet lately the world’s most unexciting asset class has been anything but. At the…
Interview: Economic vandalism
As both P.G. Wodehouse and the recent referendum reminded us, it is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with…
Cards that choose you
When I was quite a lot younger, I was seriously impressed by a friend’s bank card. It wasn’t the fact…
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Podcast: Table Talk with Kate Young
Kate Young is a food writer and chef, whose cookbooks take recipe inspiration from literary classics, recreating favourite dishes of Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, and more
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Style sourcebook: how to recreate Virginia Woolf's Monk's House
Capture Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury group aesthetic with bold prints and painted furniture
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How to train a fruit tree
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