Ollie A. Williams
Forbes
United Kingdom
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Bankers Collect Their Biggest Bonuses Since Financial Crisis As M&A Breaks $5 Trillion Record
There is a bonus boom in the City of London, as bankers earn their fattest bonuses since before the global financial crisis. → Read More
Inflation Hits 15%, Fossil Fuels Boom, And A Hypersonic Cold War Starts... Here Are The Predictions For 2022
For the first time since the second world war, U.S. inflation could hit 15% in 2022, as a perfect storm of events creates massive price increases. → Read More
Billionaires Donate Less Than $3 Billion To Climate Causes At COP26
While financial institutions have agreed to make $130 trillion net-zero, the public donations of billionaires and their foundations announced at COP26 amount to around $2.5 billion. → Read More
Art Market Goes Into Overdrive As Wealthy Up Their Spending By 42%
The rich are spending more than ever on art and antiques. The average spend in the first half of 2021 reached $242,000, an increase of 42% on the year before. → Read More
Money Laundering Thrived During Covid Pandemic
There was a dramatic increase in money laundering fines in 2020 as financial crimes boomed during the coronavirus pandemic. → Read More
Joe Biden Arrives In Cornwall For The Greenest G7 Summit
President Joe Biden has arrived in Cornwall, U.K., for his first G7 summit and the greenest one ever hosted. → Read More
Vaccine Tourism Takes Off As Indian Variant Spreads Through Asia
Earlier this year, it was the wealthy who traveled abroad to receive a Covid vaccine. Now, as Covid cases rise across Asia, vaccine tourism for the masses is becoming big business. → Read More
Wealthy Women Spent More On Art Than Men For First Time
Instead of returning to normal, the art market has turned very strange indeed. → Read More
Inside The Race To Create A Covid Passport And Change Travel As We Know It
Armand Arton has long prophesied the death of the passport in the form of a paper booklet we carry around with us. But its demise is likely to come sooner, accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, he says, as the race to create the first global vaccine passport gets underway. → Read More
266 Billionaires Stash Their Wealth In This Tiny European ‘Duchy’
An investigation dubbed "OpenLux" shows how this small and secretive European country has attracted more wealth than the GDP of Japan. → Read More
The War For Digital Nomads Heats Up As Greece Passes New Tax Law
Greece's parliament has passed a new law allowing digital nomads to half their income tax. → Read More
Wealthy Escape England’s Second Lockdown
As England enters its second coronavirus lockdown many of the country's wealthiest have already fled, leaving only private jet vapor trails behind. → Read More
How The Rich Partied During Coronavirus Lockdown
The wealthy have spent millions building their own secret clubs and live music venues and then flying in musicians and performers for their own version of live events. → Read More
UN Demands $10 Billion In Its Biggest Aid Appeal Ever
The UN says rich countries have been "dangerously short-sighted" as less than a quarter of its coronavirus funding needs have been met. → Read More
Behind The Scenes At The World’s Grandest Drive-In Cinemas
These historic houses are putting on some of the greatest drive-in cinemas the world has seen. But behind the scenes some are facing devastation. → Read More
Bank Of England Spends Billions Bailing Out Europe’s Richest Families
Emergency financial aid from the U.K. government totalling over £16 billion ($20.6 billion) has been claimed by companies controlled by U.K. and European billionaires. → Read More
How The Rich Are Protecting Themselves Against Coronavirus
Money cannot by immunity, but it can help stave it off. Here's how some are spending to both avoid and protect themselves against coronavirus disease (COVID-19). → Read More
These Are The Best Cities In The World For Wellbeing
European cities are the well-est. But U.S. cities are not so well, according to a new ranking of city wellbeing by the Knight Frank Wealth Report. → Read More
How The Young And Rich Are Now Spending Their Vacations
The jungles of the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), rife with malaria and guerrilla warfare, are far removed in every way from the exclusive enclaves of the Mediterranean where most of Europe's wealthy spent their summer vacations. → Read More
Boomers Versus Millennials: Which Generation Is More Environmental?
Children skipping school to protest about climate change, millennials going vegan and a generation bought up on The Blue Planet: It is often assumed the young are more environmentally aware than their parents' generation. → Read More