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Advisers urged to discuss structured giving

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... here due to the entrepreneurial connection. A recent survey from Fidelity Investments in the US found that 86% of millionaires are self-made. As microfinance supports entrepreneurs in developing countries, their businesses in turn create employment ...

UHNW take $720bn hit in 2011

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... are long-term investments," van den Biezenbos said. "UHNW individuals account for about 35% of the wealth of all millionaires, so as they were the big losers. They have had a huge impact on the overall wealth whereas the $1 million to $5 million bracket ...

Credit Suisse: Aus second highest average wealth in the world

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2011
... however the wealth has, due to those labour laws and taxation, accumulated at the top end." In terms of the world's millionaires, Credit Suisse maintained that Australians make up 4%, with 6% in the UK and 34% in the US. Asia Pacific has emerged as the ...

Wolf of Wall Street can't put a price on value

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... don't think they can succeed, how do I drill into their head that they can succeed.'" While Belfort revels in making millionaires, he remains committed to his own fortune, using his sizeable contacts book to engineer resources deals in Africa, where ...

New mortgage platform to offer top commissions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2010
... when an aggregation or franchise group is sold to another financial institution while the business owners become millionaires. We want to change that." Mitton said consolidation across the sector has seen many of Australia's leading mortgage broking ...

High Net Worth wealth tops $42tr

Hong Kong's millionaire factory

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2007
Hong Kong's rich list is set to explode after a Datamonitor study found the number of millionaires (those with more than $US1 million) is predicted to increase by 32,000 by 2011. The Wealth Management in Hong Kong 2007 report found the amount of assets ...

Billionaire bull run

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2007

Wealth-creation seminar promoters comply with undertakings

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2004
... In advertising his $5,000-per-head seminar, US finance spruiker Robert G Allen claimed he wanted to create 1,000 millionaires in this country, by showing \"desperate\" ordinary Australians how to make their fortune in 101 days. The Australian Securities ...

Court rules against Henry Kaye company

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2004
... print, radio and internet advertisements that his property investment strategies could turn ordinary Australians into millionaires without equity or debt. But in November last year, Mr Kaye put NII into administration owing a potential 3,500 creditors ...