This article was originally published in September 2020. Walter… In 2010 our small fund management business received a call. It was Jason, numbers man to Walter Kwok, the biggest...
About Stephen Yorke
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Prop. Notes: An opportunity for our proprietor to ruminate on life, London, property and golf
This article was originally published in October 2019. This month, as guest at one of England’s most famous and senior golf clubs, I was reminded of the brutality of the real...
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Thatcher – my part in her downfall…
This article was originally published on 3 July 2019. Listening to the Today programme a voice from my past comes over the airwaves. Lord, Kenneth of old, Baker was...
My World 2021
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My world: June 2021... This is part of a series of articles where our contributors describe how they think things will look a year from now. Our Proprietor wonders if he’s alone...
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Prop. Notes: Our Proprietor invents the Marlon Brando test for industry awards and misses some old City ways
I am a LinkedIn new boy or, in the jargon, a late adopter. I didn’t join until last year, and now I realise that its main use is to approach total strangers with whom you might...
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Prop. Notes: WeWork, Bakelite telephones and London tribes
In my previous life as a RE Fund Manager, I was not very interested in meeting other professional investors. But one of the best bits about being proprietor of The Property...