“• Chinese HNWIs held 18.4% (US$796.0 billion) of their wealth outside their home country at the end of 2013, which is below the world wide average of 20–30%.
• WealthInsight expects foreign asset holdings to increase to US$1.17 trillion by 2018, accounting for 16.4% of total HNWI assets.
• In 2013, the Asia-Pacific accounted for 65.7% of Chinese HNWIs foreign assets.
• This was followed by North America with 12.4%, Europe with 8.8%, South America with 7.0%, Africa with 3.1% and the Middle East with 3.0%.
• Chinese HNWI allocations to South America increased compared with other regions during the review period, from 4.8% in 2009 to 7.0% in 2013.The Asia-Pacific was the emerging region in terms of global investments.
• HNWIs are expected to further increase their levels of investment in South America over the forecast period, to reach8.4% of foreign HNWI assets by 2018, with investments increasingly being diverted to emerging economies.”
