Millionaires in Malaysia: 26,000 and counting

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8 Dec 2014

A new whitepaper from WealthInsight investigates wealth in Malaysia - a fast-growing millionaire and Islamic private banking hub powered by government funding and a significant increase in foreign direct investment.

Highlights of the attached whitepaper include:

* Kuala Lumpur is the city with the highest level of HNWIs at 13,800 in 2013, more than Abu Dhabi (12,500), Cape Town (8,753) or Birmingham (8,736).
* Malaysian billionaires held 209% more wealth than the whole Paraguayan HNWI population together.
* 54% of Malaysian HNWI foreign wealth is invested in Asia-Pacific countries, compared to only 46.8% of Indonesian HNWI foreign wealth.
* Malaysia is forecast to have more billionaires in 2018 (20) than the United Arab Emirates (19).
* Tom Carlisle, analyst at WealthInsight, says: "Since becoming an Islamic banking hub, Malaysia has seen a large surge in investment to its shores, increasing by 52.6% since 2008 to US$11.6 billion."

All information is based on the WealthInsight white papaer 'Millionaires in Malaysia: 26,000 and counting,' published in December 2014.

马国吉隆坡百万富翁人数冠全球
(联合早报网讯)根据独立研究公司WealthInsight调查报告,马来西亚吉隆坡成为2013年百万富翁人口最多的城市,打败阿布达比、南非开普敦及英国伯明罕。

中央社报道,总部设于伦敦的独立研究公司WealthInsight收集了全球500个经济学家、分析师与研究师的国际富翁数据库资料后,并以高净值资产人士(High Net-WorthIndividuals)为目标,最终发布这项拥有百万美元富翁城市的白皮书。

报告指出,吉隆坡在去年拥有1万3800名百万富翁,是全球最多百万富翁的城市;阿布达比以1万2500人居次,第三的开普敦有8753名,至于伯明罕则有8736名。另外,马来西亚的八打灵再也和沙亚南也是拥有最多百万富翁的地区之一,分别有1700和1017名。

报告说,虽然2009年全球金融风暴席捲,惟大马在全球投资市场站稳脚步,凭藉瞄准成为全球伊斯兰金融中心,大马不断吸收全球伊斯兰投资资金,促使过去4年富翁比例增加45.5%,也使这些百万富翁的财富提高59.6%至1510亿美元(约5270亿令吉)。

其中,这些百万富翁主要获得财富的领域包括金融、房地产与建筑业,财富成长比例分别是64.8%、57.2%与55.1%。

报告还预测吉隆坡的百万富翁人数到了2018年会达到3万54人,并且总财富会平均成长28%至2060亿美元(约7190亿令吉),甚至会有20个身家超过10亿美元的亿万富翁,比起盛产石油的富裕国家阿拉伯联合大公国还多出一人。

报告补充,大马人口仅有2830万,可是与拥有2亿3760万人口的印尼的百万富翁人数实际上差不多。若以大马政府近几年不断推动基本建设与税务津贴的趋势来看,未来吉隆坡百万富翁人数仍会持续上涨并称霸全球。
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#2
Number of millionaires in Singapore up 5 per cent to 105,100: Report

Which report to believe ah? Big Grin
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(12-12-2014, 08:42 AM)HitandRun Wrote: Number of millionaires in Singapore up 5 per cent to 105,100: Report

Which report to believe ah? Big Grin

Yes, I'm confused, this is why I posted the news here. I remembered that there are a few reports regarding Singapore Millionaires. Singapore ranks among the top few with high Millionaires density but there is no mention of Malaysia.

I came across the WealthInsight report a few days ago. May be any Valuebuddies know report by which organisation is more recognised.
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Nowadays, a lot of news headlines are written in a manner to grab attention. I have not read the report, but I believe the real meaning is:

Kuala Lumpur is the city, among Malaysia cities, with the highest level of HNWIs at 13,800 in 2013, more than Abu Dhabi (12,500), Cape Town (8,753) or Birmingham (8,736).
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