1. Wealthy Europeans warm up Frieze

   16 October 2009

   At the seventh annual Frieze Art Fair in ... Contemporary art is said to have fallen in ... Frieze gallerists say sales have been buoyed by ... "There are an impressive number of European collectors ... Of the 28 galleries which did not reapply ... Elliot McDonald, an adviser at Hiscox, said he...

2. Super-rich sail for Montenegro

   26 March 2009

   Ambitious plans to transform the small Balkan state ... If the deepening global recession wasn’t worrying enough ... decimated by the fi nancial crisis. ... The idea to turn a dilapidated, former Yugoslav ... was the brainchild of Peter Munk, an octogenarian ... After struggling to fi nd a berth for...

3. Comment: Rise of the "New Faux Poor"

   18 March 2009

   Remember the credit boom when bling was in? ... No longer. Designers, architects and estate agents say ... There are plenty of very rich people still ... Coined by that ultimate chronicler of the UK's ... Examples of NFP society are multiplying. ... Johnny Grey, an award-winning British designer who specialises...

4. Deripaska tumbles off Russian rich list, replaced by Prokhorov

   17 February 2009

   Oleg Deripaska, formerly Russia's richest man, has fallen ... Prokhorov was worth $14.1bn at the end of ... Deripaska, the majority shareholder of aluminum producer Rusal, ... The number of dollar billionaires more than halved ... Prokhorov, 43, outstripped Vladimir Potanin, 48, for the...

5. Deutsche hires new head of private wealth in Russia

   13 January 2009

   Deutsche Bank in Russia has recruited Igor Soglayev ... The departure of experienced banker Soglaelev from a ... Soglayev, a former consultant for international buyout firm ... In November 2007, Gruzdev and his family sold ... Russian oligarchs had over the past two years...

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