CEO’s don’t do group therapy. This article was featured in Issue 11 of Forbes Australia. Tap here to secure your copy. Ruth Limkin sat in a grand, empty house in the rolling green hills northwest of Brisbane, wondering where to start turning the place into a luxury rehab. She was unfettered by any experience in the […]
Sean Combs was once on a glide path to becoming a billionaire. But as sexual assault allegations and civil lawsuits mount, business partners have fled and his brands have become increasingly worthless. And the worst news may be yet to come. Only rubble remains of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ Bad Boy Worldwide headquarters in Manhattan. All […]
The hot new rums that are set to transform your palate – and maybe overcome the consequences of teenaged misadventure. Tom Bulmer is on a mission to bring rum back to the top end of the market. Because it certainly never went away from the bottom end, he likes to point out, noting that Bundaberg […]
Louis Vuitton’s watch division is known for its high-concept, often outlandish designs, with wild colours and energetic automatons. It is therefore surprising, and refreshing to see the Escale collection refreshed as a time-only dress watch that is right on trend. The classic dress watch is a booming genre in high watchmaking, with brands competing to […]
The concept of a near-$800,000 plugin hybrid might be a hard sell to your traditional Ferrari diehard, who, like many of us, have marvelled (from afar) at the Italian marque’s iconic 8 and 12-cylinder engines, but rest assured there is a lot to love about this convertible 296 GTS which adds an intriguing layer to […]
Fancy colored diamonds made their mark at Christie’s Magnificent Jewels sale, held Tuesday in New York. The top lot of the sale was “The Eden Rose,” a 10.2-carat internally flawless round brilliant fancy intense pink diamond. It sold for $13.3 million, beating its $12 million high estimate. Chrsitie’s said the diamond exhibits a pure pink […]
Crucial tips on whisky investing … Or how to find that $9,000 bottle that will resell for $1 million. Bartender Kate McGraw recently paid $2,600 for a bottle of Johnnie Walker Red Label. Red Label retails for about $40, but this bottle was more than 50 years old, and McGraw bought it out of curiosity. […]
Major real estate companies are accelerating the development of luxury residential projects in the Philippines and introducing more million dollar homes to tap resilient demand from both affluent local and foreign buyers in the world’s best-performing prime housing market. Prime residential prices in the Makati financial district and nearby towns climbed 26% in the 12 […]
In the past three years, Larry Connor has traveled to space, ventured to the deepest point in the Earth’s oceans and broken the world record for the highest skydive. In May, the founder of Dayton, Ohio-based real estate investment firm the Connor Group made a splash by announcing his latest mission: an expedition to the […]
An important and rare Van Cleef & Arpels diamond “Tie” necklace smashed its estimate and blew past other impressive gems and jewels to become the top lot at Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels auction, held Friday in New York. The necklace, circa 1929, composed of graduated links set with variously cut diamonds with elongated tassels that partially […]