Charts
Households Wealth Comparison: USA vs Canada
The chart below household wealth in USA and Canada in terms of home owner’s equity, mortgage debt and personal disposable income:
Source:Is the Canadian Housing Market Overvalued? A Post-Crisis Assessment, Evridiki Tsounta, IMF working Paper
Wealthy People’s Geographic Asset Allocation
Where do the rich invest their wealth?. The following chart shows that most high net worth individuals (HNIs) invest most of their wealth in their own local markets. For example, HNIs in Europe invest more than 50% of their assets in Europe in 2008.They allocate the rest between other continents giving North America the second highest allocation.
North American HNIs invest majority of their wealth in their domestic markets.Latin American HNIs invest heavily in North America but not Asian HNIs.
Wealthy-Investors-Asset-Allocation
Source: Private banking: Onshore drives market for Latin America’s cheerful wealthy, Euromoney
