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,[1] The Guardian[2] and Luxist.[3]
Spear's Indices are surveys of key people in the high net worth world.[4] Spear's Salon is Spear's blogging forum which hosts a number of regular contributors.[5]
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William Cash is Editor-in-Chief
Josh Spero is Editor
Emily Rookwood is Managing Editor
Anthony Haden-Guest is Arts Editor
John Arlidge is Luxury and Travel Editor
Stephen Hill is Economics Editor
Freddy Barker is Head of the Spear's Research Unit
Spear's Book Awards[6] are given annually in a number of categories. The awards were inaugurated in 2009; the first winners included Gillian Tett's Fool's Gold and Liaquat Ahamed's Lords of Finance. The winners in 2010 included Andrew Ross Sorkin's Too Big to Fail.