Friday, 5th December 2008

 

Barclays Wealth hires senior investment specialist from Morgan Stanley

Barclays Wealth has hired a director for its investment and product office from Morgan Stanley.

Karine Genevey will be based in Geneva and will manage the link between the wealth manager's investment and product office, and its international private banking operation.

She joins after six years at Morgan Stanley where she was most recently responsible for the provision of derivative products advice and support to wealth managers throughout Spain and France.

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Mayfair goes Modern

Sebastian + Barquet, a three-year old design gallery based in New York and Chelsea, is opening a new gallery showing museum quality pieces in Mayfair next month, the first in London to focus on international modernism from the 1940s to the 1960s. Its opening exhibition is dedicated to American modernist design and is curated by celebrated architect Eric Parry.

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Stocking filler: Harrods sells world's most expensive shirt

Harrods, the luxury London-based retailer, is selling a diamond-encrusted shirt valued at £20,000, the world's most expensive shirt ever made. Although the shirt has not yet been sold, it puts paid to the idea of the wealthy having to reign in their spending as a result of the recession.

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