Losses in the stock markets have been gnawing on in the past year, the assets of the Rich and super. That is, for most people, there is no reason to worry. But the reasons the millionaire crisis are interesting.
The assets of Dollar millionaires in the world decreased to 2017 by almost three per cent to € 68.1 trillion dollars, as from a, on Monday, the study published by the consultancy firm Capgemini shows. “A decline in the equity markets by proposing a rule, particularly strong,” said Capgemini expert Klaus-Georg Meyer.
The Paris-based company consultants take into account your annual “World Wealth Report” equity, fixed-income securities, alternative Investments, cash, and real estate, if they are not used even.
Capgemini is the largest consulting Firm, which has its origin in Europe. More than 200,000 people work for the French company, which generated 2018 a turnover of 13 billion euros.
2018: A real slump of the year
Also according to data from the Bundesbank, the downturn in the stock market left by the end of 2018 traces. For the first time in three years the money was assets of the fallen private households in Germany. It declined in the fourth quarter compared to the third quarter of the year, a good 28 billion to 6.02 trillion euros. Stock investors had experienced the bloodiest year since the financial crisis of 2008. The leading German index Dax lost more than 18 percent.
Not only poorer, Rich – less millionaires!
At the same time, the Club of the Rich, lost for the first time since the global financial and economic crisis of 2008 members. Around the globe there was reported to be 18 million people, which had a plant capable assets of more than a Million dollars. The were 0.3 percent less than in the year 2017. For more than a quarter of the world’s wealth to the loss state of China. The second largest economy in the world is no longer growing as rapidly as in the past. Leaves traces, among other things, the trade war with the United States.
In Germany the number of wealthy private investors fell reported to be 1.1 per cent to 1.35 million. The total assets decreased by 3.9 percent to over 5 trillion dollars. Nevertheless, Germany continues to be one of the countries with the most Dollar millionaires. At the top are the USA, followed by Japan, Germany and China. The four countries together account for 61.2 percent of the Wealthy in the world.
dk/hb (dpa)