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Mainland China shows Hong Kong how to grow millionaires

5 Jun 2013

Millionaires on the mainland will grow in number nearly twice as fast as those in Hong Kong in the next two years, research shows, though more slowly than this year.

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Jobless armies remind us growth is not a birthright

5 Jun 2013

The rich are always with us, and we'll have more of them soon. A report last week from Boston Consulting Group shows that the global millionaire population is some 13.8 million.

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Sao Paulo's millionaires use helicopters to avoid traffic jams

26 Apr 2013

Model turned business mogul Cozete Gomes owns eight companies and does not really have time to be stuck in Sao Paulo's epic traffic jams. So she just flies over them.

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Singapore ideal home in Asia for mobile rich

12 Dec 2012

Singapore topped Hong Kong as the most desired place in Asia for so-called mobile millionaires to reside, with quality of life cited as the main attraction, a RBC Wealth Management survey showed...

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Millionaires are down but certainly not out

29 Feb 2012

Volatile markets and sovereign debt crises have thinned the ranks of Hong Kong's wealthy, but they are not about to become extinct, with one millionaire in nearly every 13 people.

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1.2 million families hold half mainland's liquid assets

23 Dec 2011

The mainland's richest 1.2 million families hold nearly half of the total investable assets in the country - an estimated 62 trillion yuan (HK$76 trillion) - a joint study by China Construction...

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Super-rich want to leave mainland

Nearly half of the mainland's super-rich are considering emigration, according to a survey of people with assets of more than 10 million yuan (HK$12.17 million) that has raised concern about the...

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Slower growth seen in millionaires ranks

Growth in the number of millionaires in Hong Kong, the mainland and Asia-Pacific as a whole is expected to cool next year as the global economic slowdown takes its toll on stock and property...

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Newly rich always good for a laugh

A man becomes wealthy and now his aim is to join the aristocracy. He spends ridiculous sums of money on splendid clothes and private lessons on fencing, dancing and philosophy. Everyone can see he...

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Schooling for the lonely hearts club

Who said romance was dead?

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Profiting from property

The rise in property prices over the past year has helped create more US dollar millionaires in Hong Kong than anywhere else in the world, up 33 per cent at 101,300, according to a report by...

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More millionaires in Asia-Pacific than Europe

The number of wealthy individuals in the Asia-Pacific region has overtaken Europe for the first time - with Hong Kong leading the growth in the number of millionaires.

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