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Swampy the infamous 1996 eco warrior had a valid business case just not the right advisors
I am not suggesting that had Daniel Hooper popped to see us at Wingrave Yeats, rather than getting side tracked and signing up to a variety to protest groups – opting to become a nationally known figure for spending a week in a complex series of tunnels, dug in the path of a new extension to the A30 road in order to oppose its proposed expansion - he may well have been the next Bill Gates.
However this is a path that some have been taking with careful aplomb and navigating very successfully out of it, with a few billion dollars to show for their foresight.
It seems that green fingers are now no longer simply an asset to the most ardent gardener or eco warrior.
In the past decade or two, environmentalists have turned from eccentric eco warriors like the infamous Swampy to quite literally the richest people on this planet. Something very few people saw coming. Warren Buffet appeared to have seen the green shoots but that will be no surprise to anybody. Read More...
Royal Parks Half Marathon
By Dan Smith
Accountants are not known for their sporting prowess. However, Wingrave Yeats is not your traditional accounting firm.
Wingrave has a football team that has not lost a league title in 18 months, a netball team recently promoted to Waterloo’s top league, 3 staff members who have taken part in London and Paris marathons in 2009, a WY cycle team which entered a one hundred mile hill climb in June and a WY staff member who came 2nd in the Windsor team triathlon.
So when the idea was raised of a WY corporate team entering the Royal Parks Half Marathon perhaps it was not a surprise that nearly ¼ of our workforce signed up. Read More...
Can Facebook, YouTube and MySpace save the economy?
By Dan Smith
When the bombs went off in London on July 7th 2007 I was sitting at my desk in the city, a 3 minute walk from the site of one of the explosions. Naturally it was my mother who broke the news to me about the terrorist attacks; she had telephoned me from a rural village in Dorset just after her friend had received an email from her mother in Germany.
Could it be said that the last great economic crash in 1929 lasted for so long because news travelled so much slower and speculation was only posted by experts in official journals and pink newspapers? ...Read More
Famous for 15 Seconds - Blog 17.09.09
By Christopher Jenkins
How on earth did I get to know all these things? That Charles Dickens’ discovery that Pirate copies of his Christmas Carol were being run off in a dingy New York Press led directly to the establishment of Copyright Law?
That London has more than twice the number of broadband access points than New York, and that the main Olympic Stadium for 2012 will be covered in a “digital skin”.
Well, by attending three speeches given by Boris in two days as the mayoral team raced round New York, ringing the opening Bell at Nasdaq and regaling the fashionstas at Asprey and also the good and the great at the Consul General’s with a hundred different reasons as to why any Chairman of an international business with a modicum of common sense should be steering it towards London, now!... Read more
Dragon Slayer - Blog 28.08.09
By Christopher Jenkins
What do you reckon is the most (or should I say least) annoying thing about this dreadful programme? Well apart from the fact that such experienced business people seem prepared to invest without the least pretence of doing ANY proper due diligence on the target, besides all the posing that goes on in a vain attempt by each of the Dragons to look fierce, what really gets me is the conversation they seem to have with every one of the poor unfortunates who turn up for the ritual round of abuse that the Producer assumes we all want to witness and which he presumably insists that they dole out. The question goes like this: ... Read more
Are we going Caracas? - Blog 27.08.09
By Christopher Jenkins
I was sitting quietly on the beach in Andalusia and a friend of mine I had not seen for years appeared, began chatting and then ruined my day. Clive (who runs a Magazine): “the problem is that the value of data is collapsing”!
It occurred to me that this was not entirely disconnected to the fact that normally if I was to ask someone of my age what the capital of Venezuela was, they would probably tell me that they didn’t know- end of conversation… Read More
Client News: IQ
Congratulations to Lee Robertson who has just been listed as one the UK’s top 50 High Net Worth Wealth Managers in the influential Spear’s 2010 Wealth Management Survey
