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Fiduciary Management Ltd

April 9, 2014

Established in 1982 Fiduciary Group provides professional financial services including corporate and trust services, fund administration, marine registration and ancillary services and wealth management advice to an international client base.

Bidding 24/7: The world of online art auctions

April 3, 2014

Forget attending packed auctions and phone bids, buying a top-end collectible is now just a click away.

In December of 2012 Edward Hopper’s painting October on Cape Cod (pictured, below right) was sold at auction by Christie’s for $9.6 million (€7.1 million). Nothing unusual about that, you might say. But the buyer wasn’t in the room, and not even on the end of a phone, but watching the auction live through an online stream. That is, so far, the most that anybody has paid for a painting while bidding over the internet.

The good money

January 20, 2014

Socially responsible investing has got the backing of famous names, has seen a huge rise in assets under management and is focused on the future, but are family offices actually interested? CampdenFB takes a look

Sackler family office invests in alternative mutual fund

January 14, 2014

New York-based family office Summer Road has put $100 million (€73.1 million) into an alternative mutual fund, following a trend of ultra high net worth families shifting away from traditional hedge funds.

According to media reports, Summer Road, headed by David Sackler, the grandson of Raymond Sackler who bought Purdue Pharma in 1952, has provided the seed funding for the Balter Long/Short Equity Fund.

Stamp of approval

January 1, 2014

With email pushing the utilitarian value of stamps towards redundancy, what will become of the world’s philatelic collections and how do they stand as an investment?Campden reports.

As a child growing up in 1960s America, Donald Sundman’s father gave him a stamp album and some inexpensive stamps. “I lived in a small town in New Hampshire and so stamps were really a window into a larger world, where you could see stamps from countries that didn’t exist anymore, because World War I and World War II changed the map so much, and there were different languages. It was very exotic.”

Rinehart's Roy Hill mining project gets $700m loan

December 20, 2013

Billionaire Australian mining tycoon Gina Rinehart has received a cash injection for her AUD$10 billion (€6.5 billion) Roy Hill mining project from the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

Billionaire Australian mining tycoon Gina Rinehart has received a cash injection for her AUD$10 billion (€6.5 billion) Roy Hill mining project from the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

The bank – a federal agency designed to support private enterprises – authorised a $694.4 million (€451 million) loan to the mine in western Australia on the condition Roy Hill buys its equipment from US firms.

UHNWs favour equities for next 30-year period

December 17, 2013

The UK’s ultra-high net worth individuals rank equities as the best investment to sustain wealth for the next generation, according to a new survey examining investment predictions for the next three decades.

According to The world in 2043: wealth strategies for intergenerational success, launched by multi family office Fleming Family & Partners (FF&P), British adults will hand down as much as £5 trillion (€5.9 trillion) over the next three decades.

HK property matriarch transfers shares to Kwok brothers despite impending trial

December 6, 2013

The controlling shareholder of one of the largest real estate companies in Hong Kong, Sun Hung Kai Properties, has handed a significant chunk of shares to two of her three sons, even though they are awaiting trial for bribery of an official.

Newspaper dynasty sells HQ to another family business

November 28, 2013

The Graham family, former owners of The Washington Post, have announced they are selling the newspaper's headquarters to another big family business.

Graham Holdings, the family's holding company, formerly named the Washington Post Co, has agreed a deal worth $159 million (€117 million) with third-generation real estate development family business Carr Properties.

The Washington Post was sold to Amazon cofounder Jeff Bezos in August, and the newspaper will continue to rent office space in the building until it finds a new location.

Investment of the quarter: European stocks

November 26, 2013

Europe has been unloved by investors for a long time. The debt crisis and consequent political uncertainty about the future of the euro has understandably had investors running for safer places to put their money.

However, with the US going through a debt crisis of its own – with unforeseeable consequences on emerging markets – it may be time to rethink investment in Europe.