Peter Shaw-Smith

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Peter Shaw-Smith

Peter Shaw-Smith is a Dubai-based freelance writer for Campden Wealth publications, CampdenFB and CampdenFO

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From chemicals to cosmetics (and everything in between)

São Paulo-based MCassab Group is the face of today’s prosperous, entrepreneurial Brazil. An 86-year-old Brazilian family-run conglomerate with interests spanning Lego distribution to fish farming, its revenues are expected to double to $1 billion by 2018. Peter Shaw-Smith meets its chief executive and patriarch Fábio Cutait

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The Jafar Brothers: Oil, gas and governance

Majid and Badr Jafar are busy guiding Crescent Group through expansion in Iraq, embracing global diversification, and tackling family governance. They are also sounding the alarm over the bulge in Arab youth unemployment, and the $700 billion family business governance time bomb. CampdenFB reports

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Real Returns

A firm that evolved from the family office of a leading Brazilian company in the consumer segment is now selectively taking on new clients. CampdenFB talks to Felipe Andrade, one of its partners in São Paulo

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Gulf courses: Mishal Kanoo on the family business

In a rare interview, CampdenFB talks to Mishal Kanoo, deputy chairman of one of the Middle East’s top family businesses, the Kanoo Group.

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Flying Costs

Ownership of a private jet endorses super-rich status, but running costs might tip even the most cost-conscious owner into the ranks of the poor if they’re not careful.

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