Sail your savings to sunnier skies: Time to plot a course to riches

A year ago the stock market was in crisis. Covid-19 was raging globally and investors could only watch as their nest eggs plunged in value. But 12 months after global markets fell 30 per cent, most investments have bounced back. It has been a bumpy ride, but there’s light at the end of the tunnel. … Read more

How I wrote my own rags to riches life story 

Outside her villa in north London From homeless teen to millionaire with a mansion, bestselling author MELANIE BLAKE’s extraordinary rise to the top has been packed with more drama than her bonkbuster novels, as she tells Julia Llewellyn Smith   When Melanie Blake was a child, in Stockport, Greater Manchester, ‘chubby with glasses and dirt poor’, … Read more

The Kid Laroi: The incredible rags to riches story of Aussie rap sensation

At just 17 years old, The Kid Laroi is already on top of the world. Since bursting onto the international music scene in 2019 thanks to an endorsement from late rap icon Juice Wrld, the Indigenous teenager has become one of Australia’s most successful artists. But life looked very different for Laroi, whose real name … Read more

Russian bankers who lived life of luxury in UK having riches seized after racking up £730m debts

Two Russian bankers, who lived in luxury in England, face having their assets seized by financial investigators after they were declared the second-biggest bankrupts in British history.  Financial investigators are searching to claim former Russia’s National Bank Trust (NBT) shareholders Ilya Yurov and Nikolay Fetisov’s assets. This comes after they were accused of siphoning off … Read more

Russian bankers who lived life of luxury in UK having riches seized after racking up £730m debts

Two Russian bankers, who lived in luxury in England, face having their assets seized by financial investigators after they were declared the second-biggest bankrupts in British history.  Financial investigators are searching to claim former Russia’s National Bank Trust (NBT) shareholders Ilya Yurov and Nikolay Fetisov’s assets. This comes after they were accused of siphoning off … Read more