Business & Finance

Mountstone create and manage bespoke investment portfolios for wealthy families, charities and trusts. CEO James Keen publishes a monthly investment update for their clients. Here is February’s Newsletter:-

Equity markets around the world have suffered their worst start since 2010, with the emerging economies leading the charge into negative territory. We explore the reasons for the recent rout and consider whether these ‘cheap’ markets will become cheaper before a real buying opportunity emerges……

The Vintage Magazine is delighted to welcome Mountstone Partners as Business Members. Mountstone create and manage bespoke investment portfolios for wealthy families, charities and trusts. CEO James Keen publishes a monthly investment update for their clients which he has agreed to share this with our readers. Here is the first for 2014:-

The Vintage Magazine is delighted to renew our existing relationship with DKLM, and to welcome their continued presence as ‘Business Members’ of The Vintage Magazine, because they are a diverse, friendly and commercial City Law firm with numerous specialities, and we hope that our readers will make use of their wide range of services, because they are an excellent firm with an impressive reputation.

Eric Clapton is best-known for his musical talent, but his investment skills would be the envy of most investment professionals. In 2001 Eric Clapton bought three paintings by Gerhard Richter for what was then the huge sum of £2 million (US$3.2 million).

In 2012 the rock guitarist sold one of these paintings for US$34 million at Christies, a sum that would go down in history as the highest priced ever paid at auction for the work of a living artist.

Introduction by Robert Jarman

James Martin is perhaps best-known as the Presenter of Saturday Kitchen for BBC1 which attracts 3.5 million foodies every week, and has made him a household name, but his other passion is racing Classic Cars.

In fact, he was once quoted as saying; ‘Food comes first, then cars, then my dog, and then women’….!

James Martin in his Benson & Hedges sponsored by Jordan Peugeot Formula 1 car 1997 by Giancarlo Fisichella

The Vintage Magazine congratulates its Business Member, The Ridgeway Group, on acquiring Hartwell’s Land Rover dealership in Oxford.

The Ridgeway Group has made its first foray into the Land Rover brand by acquiring the Land Rover site located in Cumnor, Oxford from Hartwell PLC for an undisclosed sum.

The Vintage Magazine congratulates Ayesha Vardag and her team at Vardags for being awarded Law Firm of the Year (London) and any readers who would like to find out more about Britain’s top divorce lawyer can do so at our Business and Finance section under the sub heading of Legal Eagles.

The Vintage Magazine is very proud that one of our Business Members has won such a prestigious award.

This June, at the peak of the capital’s summer season, Masterpiece London brings together collectors, exhibitors and curators from around the world for an unparalleled show of fine art, antiques and design.

An aisle view of Masterpiece London 2012.

STOP PRESS – AUCTION RESULTS:-

Gavin Gardiner Ltd’s first auction of 2013 of Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns and Rifles saw a historically and internationally significant rare “Russian Purdey”, that was presented to British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan by Russian President Nikita Krushchev on the occasion of MacMillan’s Historic 1959 State Visit to Russia – one of the key points in the Cold War – sell for £21,600 to a collector, who was bidding on the telephone. The auction took place on Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at Sotheby’s, 34-35 New Bond Street, London. Remaining in a new unfired condition and with presentation inscription in a gold plaque, the 12-bore gun was made to Purdey specifications by the Tula State Armoury and carried an estimate of £20,000 and £30,000.

April 2013 Sale 'Russian' Purdey MacMillan and Kruschev Gun

J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s investment trust team took a group of clients to Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro to see at first hand the extensive growth opportunities and the challenges that exist in the 5th largest country in the world.

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