ROUNDUP / study: global asset boom are clustered at the super-rich – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

                                  

 
 
     
     
     
         
         
                                                             

NEW YORK (AFX) – The world’s wealth is increasing sharply. 2014 laid the private financial assets in the previous year by almost twelve percent to 164 billion US dollars (146 billion euros) to. This is the result of a study published in New York on Monday study by the consulting firm Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The assets thus concentrate even more on the super-rich. However, the regional distribution is changing -. Especially thanks to the asset boom in China, the Asia-Pacific region excluding Japan Europe obsolete and should soon the USA leave behind

The number of millionaires worldwide rose last year According to the consulting firm significantly from 15 to 17 million. The proportion of such households in the total private wealth increased from 40 to 41 percent. According to estimates of BCG, he is expected to rise to 46 percent by 2019. The fastest growth, the researchers say the top flight ahead with assets of more than $ 100 million, in which last already clenched six percent of global wealth. Millionaires and the super-rich have benefited their financial assets in 2014 from the stock market boom and the improved world economy.

the riches shift At the regional level, however, increasingly. With $ 51 trillion private assets North America remains true at the top. But Asia (excluding Japan), where the private assets in 2014 increased by 29 percent, is close by 47 trillion to $ heels and Europe (just under $ 43 trillion) already outdated. According to BCG calculations, the region is expected to pass in 2016 also to the USA and accumulate wealth by 2019 in the amount of 75 trillion dollars. The total global private assets does the company until then climb to 222 trillion.

Most millionaires and super-rich had recently the USA before the strong catch-up China. The highest density of millionaire makes the study in Switzerland, where 135 of 1000 inhabitants had more than a million dollars for a rainy day. It is followed by Bahrain, Qatar, Singapore, Kuwait and Hong Kong.

In Germany, the number of millionaires increased year on year by 3.6 percent to 350 000, thus ended the Federal Republic seventh of the rankings. Much faster – by 6.9 percent – grew the assets of the super-rich in this country. 679 German households with personal assets of more than $ 100 million included the BCG researchers. Germany thus ranks behind the United States, China, Great Britain and India in fifth place. / HBr / DP / unit

                                 

 
  

 
 

 
                       

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