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| Editor | Alec Marsh |
|---|---|
| Categories | Lifestyle |
| Frequency | bimonthly |
| Founder | William Cash |
| Year founded | 2006 |
| Company | Progressive Media International |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
Spear's (formerly known as Spear's WMS or Spear's Wealth Management Survey), founded in 2006 by William Cash, is a bimonthly British magazine for high-net-worth individuals and those in the financial service industries. It has been called "the Bible of the banking fraternity" by GQ and "a European rival to Forbes" by The Evening Standard. Its subscribers include over 30,000 of Europe’s decision-makers and wealthy. William Cash, Editor-in-Chief of Spear's, has twice won Editor of the Year at the PPA Awards (2007 and 2008). Spear's is published by Progressive Digital Media. The launch in 2006 included publicity from The Independent,The Guardian, the Luxist and The Times.
Spear's Indices are surveys of key people in the high net worth world.Spear's Salon is Spear's blogging forum which hosts a number of regular contributors.
William Cash, a magazine writer who has also been a foreign correspondent for The Times and The Daily Telegraph, was Annabel's Magazine's contract publisher in 2005, when they published the pilot edition of Spear's as a supplement. At that time there was competition for advertisements from "fashion houses and luxury brands" upon which the magazine depended. Cash launched Spear's Wealth Management Survey in April 2006 with a targeted audience of "the 30,000 wealthiest, most successful and influential people in the UK: from Rich Listers to royalty; hedge fund managers to serial entrepreneurs; oligarchs to internet moguls; cabinet ministers to Sir Alex Ferguson."(Cash 2007) In February 2003 Cash married Ilaria Bulgari, whose father was the vice-chairman of Bulgari, the third largest jewellery company in the world. They divorced in 2007 and Cash sold 67% of his stake in the magazine for a seven-figure deal. Then in 2009 he bought his shares back.(Cash 2009) Cash is the owner of Upton Cressett Hall, a 16th-century Tudor manor in Shropshire. The journalist Alec Marsh was appointed editor of Spear's in January 2017.
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