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David Bain

David Bain is the former editorial director of Campden Wealth. He joined Campden in 2010 from Dow Jones, where he worked on Wealth-Bulletin and Financial News, as well as contributing to the Wall Street Journal. He has had 20 years' experience as a journalist and economist working at various organisations, including Schroders and the Economist Intelligence Unit, part of the Economist. He holds an economics degree from London School of Economics.

Articles by this author:

  • Jumping off the financial Ferris wheel

    “The world of finance hails the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.” Wise words from the late economist John Kenneth Galbraith, but is there any alternative to this wheel of finance? 

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  • Fiat Capitalism

    John Elkann heads one of the world’s biggest conglomerates. But he wants to be more than just another boss of a big multinational. He wants to change the world. CampdenFB reports.

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  • Family offices and nightclubs

    What is it with family offices these days? They appear to be everywhere. But are they really family offices or just private banks in family offices' clothing? The new vogue for the title "family office" could be undermining the credibility of the model. 

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  • London finance luminaries form family office

    A group of senior London-based financiers have come together to form a new multi family office designed to more closely align the interests of the partners with those of its clients.

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  • Let’s have less textbook economics

    Is maximising shareholder value and the application of rational economic theory the best way to organise the private sector in the 21st century? 

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  • Tyre war simmers among Italian families

    Control of tyre company Pirelli is being disputed by one of Italy’s most influential businessmen in a protracted fight that has also brought to the fore the often murky structure of the holding companies that prevail at many family businesses throughout the country.

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  • Europe’s great family dynasties come together for a deal

    Italy’s Agnelli family has sold its stake in inspection and verification business SGS to Belgium’s richest man Baron Albert Frere, in a deal that underlines the links between some of the world’s wealthiest business families.

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  • Red Cross

    Switzerland has a foundation for every 650 people, but what is it that makes it such an important centre for them?

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  • Why family businesses should use poison pills

    Poison pills are back in the news. But are they as sinister as the term suggests? Not necessarily if you are a family business.

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  • Swiss flight

    Swiss banks are coming to terms with a world with less banking secrecy. But are they adapting fast enough to a public that wants more transparency?

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