Citywealth - Private Clients Articles
10 Jun 2010
Shanghai Delhi Club party at House of Lords with Lord Mawson OBE
Shanghai Delhi guests attend by invitation only and must be uhnw individuals with in excess £100mn in private wealth. The club aims to connect high society British Lords and Ladies with charitable concerns, power and influence to wealthy Asians with business prowess and lifestyle. The club connects Asia with Britain at an extremely high level without ever having to take a 'plane from London and its fun too. There are four events per year and guests who are not uhnw individual may join at £10,000 per annum to promote products and services to this audience and attend the events with meet and greet bonus. Its a simple way to meet the uhnw clients directly who buy Bentleys, yachts, substantial real estate, luxury goods, first class travel, private memberships and jewellery. It is also a way for investment managers, family offices and investment managers to meet thirty or more uhnw clients easily and effortlessly and bond with them in a small, friendly group that encourages friendship and business development opportunities. Read more...
12 Apr 2010
Khendor Kor, Clarks Shoes and the JA Clark Charitable Trust
Interest in Khendor Kor, the charity the JA Clark Charitable Trust are helping, who educate rural girls in Pakistan is something that dominates her time now, particularly as their three year financing programme for providing Women's Learning Centres in the Tribal Areas with the charity is about to end. “Maryam Bibi is a very remarkable woman” says Pym “she comes from North Waziristan and is a practicing Muslim, so she has been able to gain the confidence of the men and village heads in the remote areas of north Pakistan and some of the Tribal Areas. With their support she can set up Community Organisations, to build girls schools, and encourage support for the women such as trained midwives, literacy and microfinance. Read more...
26 Mar 2010
Muzaffar Khan: from hedge funds to social entrepreneurship
Muzaffar Khan, who is now forty, was born in Karachi, Pakistan which is the largest city in Pakistan. His family were part of the landed gentry and Khan mentions a family gravestone near Lahore which is more than four hundred years old. The family money came from rice which is big business in the region with Asian farmers still accounting for ninety two percent of the world's total rice production and export earnings are around the $2billion mark. The Khan family’s main income is no longer in the rice business but now they hold roles in government and the military. One notable relative was Sardar Shaukat Hussein Khan Mazari who was Deputy Speaker of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab and was elected to be a provincial minister before his death in 2008. Another relative is Lally Malik, ex-Deputy Mayor of Kingston and Councillor. Read more...
07 Dec 2009
Peter Buffett launches musical charitable CD and advent calendar website and donates CD's to Citywealth Shanghai Delhi club
When you look at the website, the wintery landscape artwork featured on this advent calendar was designed by Pennsylvania-based folk artist, Jessica Wasilewski, who recently underwent a bone marrow transplant at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York City. Today, December 1st, the first door will reveal information on how to support The American Cancer Society Hope Lodge, which provided lodging for no cost to Jessica during her months of treatment. Read more...
07 Dec 2009
Taming the tiger economy
Brays wife runs a 33,000 hectare wildlife reserve in South Africa where the South China tiger cubs are raised in a free-ranging environment and trained to hunt wild prey with the aim of eventually transferring them back to the wild in their country of origin. (Sadly virtually all of the remaining South China tigers reside in Chinese zoos rather than the wild)). The reintroduction of wild South China tigers presents an important opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of the environment and sustainable development in China. Read more...
07 Dec 2009
Dr Lady Brocklebank launches charity CD
Anna Brocklebank, inspired by the Rev. Canon Dr. Modupe Taylor-Pearce, has created a DVD of gospel songs with proceeds to go the charity DISCET who help rebuild lives in Sierra Leone. Read more...
07 Dec 2009
Entrepreneur profile: Matt Roberts, Personal Trainer to the stars
Matt Roberts Personal trainer, credited with keeping the likes of Tom Ford, Naomi Campbell, John Galliano, Trudi Styler, Amanda Holden and Clare Maurice of Maurice Turnor Gardner in perfect shape, is son of John Roberts a former Arsenal player. From his background of high profiling sporting personalities it isn’t difficult to imagine where his knowledge and motivation came from to set up a personal training company. “When we were seven or eight years old we went training with our Dad, running up and down the Cheshire hills where we lived.” His mother was also fanatical about healthy eating which is something he said they didn’t really understand or appreciate as children. Read more...
07 Dec 2009
Mayank Patel: Making money from currency
The Azibo Group is a privately owned company with a minority shareholder who has been involved for ten years. Whilst other people run the businesses for him now Patel receives regular financial updates to keep a keen eye on progress. The Azibo Group has zero leverage “not even one pence of debt” says Patel and he built the business completely “off my own back”. He has three hundred staff which includes hires in India and Patel says if he had to guess he would say the group was worth about £100million. Read more...
09 Oct 2009
Mark, Tara and Jessica Getty and Art for Africa
In a feat of herculean enormity, a small team which includes Jessica Getty, Beezy Bailey, (artist), Susannah Friend (fundraiser), Oliver Baker (Sotheby's) and Aida Molineaux (sponsor) came together to sponsor, provide free facilities, garner support and goodwill both in free donations and art to pull off an important art auction to raise hundreds of thousands for the Art for Africa foundation. Read more...
09 Oct 2009
The richest woman in Spain
The beautiful Spaniard, Esther Koplowitz, worth £3bn, has much to be pleased about. She has developed the company she took over from her father and grown it to its current empire status (including a large stake in UK Plc). Read more...
