“• At the end of 2014, German HNWIs held 34.9% (US$1.5 trillion) of their wealth outside their home country; significantly higher than the worldwide average of 20–30%.
• WealthInsight expects foreign asset holdings to increase to US$2.6 trillion by 2019, accounting for 39.7% of total HNWI assets.
• Europe accounted for 47.5% of German HNWIs’ foreign assets in 2014.
• This was followed by North America with 21.3%, the Asia-Pacific with 21.0%, South America with 6.1%, the Middle East with 2.5% and Africa with 1.4%.
• German HNWI allocations to Europe decreased compared with other regions during the review period, going from 54.6% in 2010 to 47.5% in 2014. North America and the Asia-Pacific were the emerging regions in terms of German HNWI investments.
• Over the forecast period, WealthInsight expects HNWIs to decrease their levels of investment in Europe to 42.8% of foreign HNWI assets by 2019, with investments increasing due to confidence in the economy throughout Asia – primarily China and India.”
