“• In 2013, Israeli HNWIs held 24.2% (US$102 billion) of their wealth outside of their home country; the worldwide average is20–30%.
• WealthInsight expects foreign asset holdings to increase to US$128 billion by 2018, accounting for 23.9% of the total HNWI assets.
• In 2013, North America accounted for 44.3% of the foreign assets of Israeli HNWIs.
• This was followed by Europe with 29.0%, the Asia-Pacific with 14.5%, Latin America with 11.0%, the Middle East with 0.9% and Africa with 0.6%.
• Israeli HNWI allocations to Europe decreased during the review period when compared to other regions, from 35.4% in 2009 to 29.0% in 2013. Latin America and Asia-Pacific were emerging regions in terms of global investments.
• WealthInsight expects HNWIs to reduce their level of investment in Europe over the forecast period, falling to 24.1% of foreign HNWI assets by 2018, with investments decreasing due to growing confidence in Asian economies.”
