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Urs Schwarzenbach

Greater London still acts as a magnet for wealthy Russians and Arabs. When these new rich have a little less fluid, it exerts pressure on land prices and real estate. But at age 61, Urs Schwarzenbach, the son of a printer Küsnacht (ZH) who made his life in finance in London, did not worry: when you have entire villages, including the pub and post office on the banks of the Thames, you can see it coming. The biggest Swiss investment Schwarzenbach, the famous Grand Hotel Dolder fully restored on Zurichberg gives positive signals. The financier had invested more than half a billion, but apparently failed to hire appropriate staff to an institution Superlux. The second year of operation looks better: the rate of customer satisfaction increases, and therefore the occupancy rate.

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The Wizard of Hambleden

Very British. A rural idyll. But the little village of Hambleden, Oxfordshire English, 45 minutes drive from London, is not as peaceful as before.

A few months ago, a Swiss billionaire named Urs Schwarzenbach bought the Hamlet honorableHenry Smith, heir of the dynasty WH Smith. Thirty-four million pounds for 44 houses, pub, village shop, post office, garage and stage of hunting, but the notable exclusion of the Egli-se. In total, 650 hectares of meadows and forests.
Two Faces

Since the sale was confirmed, the excitement is calmed down. The new owner of the village, which has long lived in the neighborhood of Hambleden, visited last winter at Christmas mass at the church of the hamlet. "He has a friendly air," said the couple holding the garage. "Hopefully it brings new money. Sue Ford, who runs with her husband, Martin, post office and village shop, admits, after some hesitation: "He seems to be a nice man. "

A 2297 km as the crow flies from Hambleden, in the medina of Marrakech, different story. "Speech by Urs Schwarzenbach is worthless," carried away Aysegul Denz. Local media added: "A European Cultural Property Moroccan greedy," says The Reporter, "rude and unfriendly," wrote The New Tribune.

At the root of this disenchantment, the acquisition by Urs Schwarzenbach Palace Layadi through questionable means: pressure, false promises, intimidation, show the natives.

The two faces of Urs Schwarzenbach? "As I have no intention of entering politics, public opinion did not know my ideas," is justified in declining the billionaire our interview request. At the reopening of the Dolder Grand in Zurich, renovated at its expense, the man will be more talkative.

He was born September 17, 1948 in Thalwil and raised in Küsnacht. He can not enter the gym and folds on the business school.

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In 1968, the son of printer started working at the Swiss Bank Corporation, first at the Foreign Division, then in trading currencies. In 1972, at age 24, he went to London on behalf of the institution. His father, who does not yet ride on gold, presents 100 000 francs to his son to learn to trade with his own money. The latter applies the usual lever for a ten to one equity share for nine shares of foreign funds - and commits its first million in the currency market.

Soon he met success. "In 1976 I was already a millionaire," he recalls proudly. Encouraged by its success, he founded his company, Intex Exchange. In the mid-1980s, he garnered hundreds of millions of francs, reported foreign exchange traders.
His strength: discretion

The bank traders are sitting at their computers and move the "tickets" of some 50 million to liquidate the position shortly after a profit infinitesimal. The staff of Urs Schwarzenbach, instead relying on strategic positions.

Villa Falkenstein in Zurich, telling visitors, four or five real estate specialists alongside three traders in foreign currency. They keep dollars, euros and other currencies for weeks, sometimes months. Moreover, Urs Schwarzenbach only play with his own capital. "Because I am accountable to nobody, I can take much bigger risks. "

Obviously, the manoeuvrist ERV can sometimes fail. In October 1998, the dollar suddenly lost 15% against the yen. "A bloodbath," he rappellePatrick Bauer, head of the trading company devisesWisenta Consulting. Amid the carnage, Urs Schwarzenbach, who had relied heavily on a rising dollar. A loss in the three-digit million, estimates the industry.

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How is it that almost nobody in the currency trading, the billionaire does not know Zurich? "Everyone has heard of George Soros or Paul Tudor Jones, why should we know precisely Urs Schwarzenbach?" He quips. Discretion is precisely its strength. "We swim against the current. We do not boast of our positions. "
Of polo to the royal family

Urs Schwarzenbach Where is there a huge fortune? For sure, he has money, and thousands. In the list of 300 richest balance sheet, the nearly sixty listed under the category "1.5 to 2000000000. The Sunday Times and the Telegraph to conclude similar estimates. And Urs Schwarzenbach is also spending lavishly. Just seen his fortune, especially real estate, amounted to 1.2 billion (see table).

For someone who knows about finance, Urs Schwarzenbach seems to invest large sums casually. Example: Hotel Dolder Grand in Zurich. In 2001 he bought the majority of the hotel for 120 million at the familleWehrli.

Ultimately, the renovation will cost $ 500 million, a multiple of what was expected. Whatever, "interested parties" would have offered more than one billion for the renovated hotel. But Urs Schwarzenbach does not cite names.

The billionaire is not modest in his adopted homeland, Britain. For years he moved with his Australian wife, Francesca, and her two children in the ownership of Thames-Side Court in Shiplake (Oxfordshire). More for the fiscal climate of the British Isles for the weather, no doubt. The neighbors have not been thrilled billionaire by its move. Not least three polo grounds that "the Swiss" was built for his own team, the Black Bears - which would cost in addition to 1 million per year.

But it is on the polo fields Urs Schwarzenbach made the acquaintance of Prince Charles and his two son, Harry and William. Since he gave a financial boost to Prince Andrew, he is even more surprising to see the photo in Zurich alongside of Her Majesty Elizabeth II. Despite its improved relations with the royal family, the title "Sir" would not, however, for now.

The real estate billionaire cover the globe for business in Zurich, for winter sports at St. Moritz for Climate in Marrakech, for solitude in Australia for hunting in Scotland, and free time it remains the home of Henley on Thames. A life that is possible with a fast plane.

His Gulfstream G-IV growing old, Urs Schwarzenbach has paid an advance of 50% for delivery of a Gulfstream G650, chatted to 70 million. He christened George because "ultimately it is George Bush who has paid the plane." The speculator has indeed long relied on a falling dollar and has gained a lot.

Where the new plane will he Urs Schwarzenbach? The Dolder Grand has reopened its doors. The village of Hambleden called funds, but it does suffice to pack his heart? We doubt.

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Urs Schwarzenbach

Urs Schwarzenbach, the polo player and businessmen, owner of the Hotel Dolder, he proposes moving to Rütihof at Herrliberg on the heights of Zurich, between lake and forest. "It is a sublime place I live there with my horses. We have 12 boxes of 5 m 4m50, parks out of sight and woods for walking, Mr Schwarzenbach brings this invaluable support" .

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London more attractive than Switzerland

"For ten years the flow of the rich who leave their country is headed in both directions, more and more interested in wealthy Swiss tax conditions offered abroad," says Pierre-Alain Guillaume, lawyer in tax matters. The most popular destinations are London and Monaco.

Many industrialists and bankers have settled in the British capital as the billionaire Urs Schwarzenbach, the financier Tito Tettamanti Ticino, Logitech's boss Daniel Borel and Jean-Claude Gandur principal shareholder of Addax Petroleum.

After leaving Geneva to London in 2000, Bernard Sabrier just left Singapore. "Just to develop my company in a very promising, it is by no means an exile," says the boss Unigestion, Geneva company that specializes in institutional management.

"The UK is very interesting for foreigners, it is often more advantageous than the tax package provided by Switzerland," said Pierre-Alain Guillaume. In Britain, wealthy exile advantage of the distinction between the concept of resident and domiciled.

Foreigners' non-domiciled residents "have a special tax status. These people do not pay taxes on money they bring into the country. The revenue received abroad are exempt from taxes. A gift tax for the wealthiest.

According to estimates by the British Treasury, they would be 115,000 to benefit from this privilege. These "non-doms," as they call them, avoid paying each year approximately one billion pounds of tax (1.9 billion dollars).

The principality of Monaco has also favors the Swiss. "It's more a destination for older pensioners because they get bored quickly," said Pierre-Alain Guillaume. The financier Bruce Rappaport and his wife Ruth are based there for several years.

With zero tax rate, the Rock also attracts athletes who thus avoid being taxed on their sponsorship deals. The play tennis Marc Rosset lived in Monaco since 1989, but in 2008 he returned to file his papers in Geneva.

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Nino Buissonnets joined Steve Guerdat ...

Sold by Haras des Princes in Germany earlier this year while playing on 1m40, Nino Buissonnets (Kannan x Narcos II x Alme) has evolved with Tim Hoster down to 1.50m.

Starting tomorrow, Nino acquired by the patron Urs Schwarzenbach Zurich will join frames Yves G. Piaget Jalisca Solier, Treasury, Ferrari VI, III or Urgent Boy of Kannan to help Steve Guerdat to stay at the highest level.

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"For the welfare of the horse"
It has been four years now he holds this equestrian paradise after slamming the door Val kenswaard, home of the family Tops. "Here, it's really perfect, functional, spacious and airy. Everything is designed for the welfare of the horse. "

The horseman prancing Jura fun at his farm, a "five star" that belongs to wealthy financier Urs Schwarzenbach, who loves riding. The native of Bassecourt has everything, including an apartment a few meters from his workplace, overlooking the paddock.

"We have a dozen horses," explains the owner, so happy when in contact with the greatest conquest of man. "A horse is where I feel most alive," he likes to repeat, after we have introduced the carousel, the carousel (or walking) as well as land in synthetic sand, just below a great forest where he regularly goes for a walk. In the stable, her face glows. The son of Philippe Guerdat always has a kind word for her three collaborators, who grooms his bichonnent frames. His cracks as "Jalisca Solier," "Treasure" or "Urgent", the stars of its owners, really do crack.

"I talk to them when I'm bored," admits Steve, but I hope they really understand. These are empty words, even though I know they recognize me. "

Still, when caress "Jalisca, his eyes sparkle more than usual. He is in love with one he calls "real girl". With it, the thunderbolt was immediate.

"The best are always the most pampered, recognizes one of the most talented riders in the jumping world. But it is also important to appreciate them all the same way to successfully get the best from each. They all have the same vet, even marshal the same bellhops, the same care, all their particularity. "

Steve has a drastic remedy: his love for his steeds. "I have a better relationship with them since they are not for sale. I'm lucky, unlike other riders, my team is not focused on trade. "

Qualified for the top 10 of the CHI-W Geneva, bringing together the best riders in the world next Thursday at Palexpo, Steve Guerdat take his big truck in three of his finest horses.

Besides "Jalisca, the Jura is still hesitating between" Treasure, "" Ferrari "and" Urgent ". "It's a wonderful event and the fact that it takes place in Geneva is hypermotivant."

Winner of the Grand Prix in April, Steve Guerdat eager to get back on track before his audience. "I think the spectators Geneva already know that I love them as much as they love me and I am glad to see them again." With "Jalisca" or "Treasury", it is ready to mount his high horse!

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Palais Soleiman, an authentic
After struggling for almost two years to break an attempted expropriation of the gem of traditional Moroccan architecture in Marrakech, "Palais Soleiman, Driss Segueni, his young owner winner of the prestigious Lausanne Hotel School, is successful in June 2008 with the Court of Appeal. His opponent was none other than his neighbor, Jean-Louis Raynaud, decorator by profession, residing in Marrakech, which acts on behalf of a man's world, a certain Urs Schwarzenbach, Swiss financier. Once this file is closed, the young entrepreneur gives back to the "Palais Soleiman, Marrakech prestigious restaurant, located inside the former palatial mansion of the Kingpin Layadi, an authentic place. Since 1971, the flame, the home range of 2200 m², has been restored to 80%.

Maintenance work never ceased. The finest craftsmen in Fez and Marrakech has worked for years in the construction and decoration of this magnificent building. Through its zelliges, its ancient and its monumental gates lattices, the "Palais Soleiman" gives visitors the rare privilege of tasting at each step, the plural expression of an art characterized by the celebration of the divine. Driss Segueni is categorical: "I do not want to make a fashionable place." With six spacious lounges, a huge open courtyard - covered and heated in winter - its terrace opening onto the snowy peaks of the Atlas, the Palais Soleiman has become over the years a reference. It has emerged as both one of the houses where the Moroccan art of receiving is the best preserved and as one of the places where the benefits of tradition and modernity are those of the most harmoniously married.

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A horse for the future of Steve Guerdat Nino Buissonnets

Tomorrow Wednesday, December 15 should arrive a new crack in the stables of Steve Guerdat at Herrliberg (ZH).

This is Nino Buissonnets, a promising gelding of 9 years (Kannan and Narcos) who was running in CSI **, instead of 135 cm in the early season with
William Foutrier the French and which was subsequently bought by Manfred Marschall and has been ranked 1st and 2nd this summer on 150 cm with the rider of the latter, Tim Hoster. This merchant has sold German in his time with Liebherr or LB No Mercy LB Casanova, 9th GP Rolex FEI World Cup in Geneva on Sunday. Zurich is the patron Urs Schwarzenbach, who has acquired Steve Guerdat (money raised in the press and on the web in recent times are apparently he surrealists). The Jura is delighted to have a new horse to help geeks Yves G. Piaget that are Jalisca Solier, Treasury, Ferrari VI, III or Urgent Boy of Kannan. "I am convinced that Nino has great quality, but it is not yet ready for the 5 stars, I will quietly prepare this winter," said Steve Guerdat on Tuesday, but seized en route to the CSI-W London , which begins Thursday.

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Marrakech: SOS, the "Palais Soleiman is in danger!

A neighbor who kills without warning a separation wall, opens a window into your yard, removal of debris in front of your door ... Its the misfortune experienced by Driss Segueni young owner of the "Palais Soleiman, Marrakech prestigious restaurant, located inside the former palatial mansion of the Kingpin Layadi.

The story does not deserve much attention if the neighbor in question was, given his resident alien status, in principle obliged to respect local etiquette. This is the case of Jean-Louis Raynaud, decorator by profession, living in Marrakesh for less than a year, acting on behalf of a man's world, a certain Urs Schwarzenbach, Swiss financial .

The case began in February 2006, when Jean-Louis Raynaud shall, in its capacity as administrator of a company based in Aix en Provence (France), the purchase of five "plots" of the former palace Layadi, located around the "Palais Soleiman. So far nothing out of the ordinary. Except that the new owner seems a big investor appetite and a man determined to achieve his ends. The five "plots" are indeed pale face, the architectural and aesthetic, with the adjoining building, a jewel of traditional Moroccan architecture. All the splendor and prestige of the old palace are concentrated there and nowhere else.

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According to Driss Segueni, winner of the prestigious Lausanne Hotel School, everything suggests that it is an acquisition strategy, goal oriented: encircle, enclave, in short "banthoustaniser" the palace coveted ...

At first the relationship between the newcomer and Driss Segueni are rather cordial. JL Raynaud begins by seeking to be closer to his young neighbor. He gives every appearance of a gentleman, struggles to show he is a man of taste fell in love with Marrakech and Moroccan civilization.

But soon the host of Morocco becomes a ruthless property developer. Thus, on November 26, he began work that damages the wall of one of the four rooms of the Palais Soleiman "without apologizing for the damage. On 28 November, he takes the liberty to destroy an old door and a window (walled in 1971!) Overlooking the terrace of his neighbor.

In the process, he kills a separation wall on a right of way in which he challenges to the enjoyment of his young neighbor. A few days later, Driss Segueni tells his men to go beat up employees' Palais Soleiman. The mother of D. Segueni narrowly missed being seriously injured by a stone.

Despite various complaints (for unauthorized construction, destruction of a wall and assault) and the fact that the Urban Agency has partially done justice (finding registered under No. 22608 ordering, November 30, closing openings illegally performed), Raynaud continues to act as it sees fit.

For Segueni Driss, the impunity seems to enjoy his neighbor explained by the effect of a sort of positive discrimination established in favor of foreigners. "Raynaud, who boasted of wanting to offer a mosque Marrakchi, displayed a brutality worthy of the worst older settlers. I wonder if it is not the instrument of conquest of the appetites of Urs Schwarzenbach one credited with bulimia for global prestige property? .

The case is an illustration rather pathetic that the appetite of foreigners for riads and other trophies Hispano-Moorish, and fever Property and land that followed, could generate as perverse in the former capital Almohad.

Driss Segueni, whose establishment is the target of a takeover of a particular type, nevertheless continues to seek to satisfy its customers, which is very demanding. He is currently working to develop measures of cultural patronage within the "Palais Soleiman. "I would, gave us this brilliant entrepreneur of 33 years, this magnificent space that once housed high literary talks held, far more than just a restaurant and be made part to its original purpose. Soon, the former palace Layadi every Sunday will be converted into a cultural welcome to writers, painters, musicians ...

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