“• Chinese HNWIs held 19.9% (US$963.8 billion) of their wealth outside their home country at the end of 2014, which is below the worldwide average of 20–30%.
• WealthInsight expects foreign asset holdings to increase to US$1.7 trillion by 2019, accounting for 18.2 % of total HNWI assets.
• In 2014, the Asia-Pacific region accounted for 65.2% of Chinese HNWIs’ foreign assets.
• This was followed by North America with 10.2%, South America with 9.3%, Europe with 7.1%, the Middle East with 4.3% and Africa with 3.9%.
• Chinese HNWI allocations to South America increased compared with other regions during the review period, going from 5.9% in 2010 to 9.3% in 2014. The Asia-Pacific was also an 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 reach 11.6% of foreign HNWI assets by 2019, with investments increasingly being diverted to emerging economies.”
