Don't ya just love lists? And piles of facts that can make you feel really small? Well sit back and enjoy these loving results from the Boston Consulting Group in a June report entitled Global Wealth 2010: Regaining Lost Ground: Resurgent Markets and New Opportunities. Basically, it tells you where all the rich folks live and what they own. Here are some of the results:
· Global wealth staged a remarkable comeback in 2009 after its steep decline in 2008. [Assets under management] increased by 11.5% to $111.5 trillion, just shy of the year end peak in 2007.
· North America posted its greatest absolute gain in wealth at $4.6 trillion, but the largest percentage increase occurred in Asia-Pacific (ex-Japan), where wealth increased by 22%, or $3.1 trillion.
· Millionaire households represented less than 1 percent of all households but owned about 38% of the worlds wealth, up from about 36% in 2008. In North America, Africa and the Middle East, millionaire households represented more than half of the wealth in those regions.
· The United States had by far the most millionaire households (4.7 million), followed by Japan,
China, Switzerland and the Middle East.
· Switzerland remained the largest off-shore center; it accounted for $2.0 trillion, or about 27 percent, of all off-shore wealth.
· Women control about 27 percent of global wealth, meaning that they decide where it is invested. North America had the highest proportion at 33 percent.
· Latin American household asset growth rose by 16% to $3.4 billion, and Europe, despite the massive debt problems it now faces, was the wealthiest region with more than $37 trillion in assets under management, an increase of 8.8% from 2008.
Feeling all warm and fuzzy inside? I want it; I want it; I want it….. Oh well… Level playing field anyone?
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