News release: “The Credit Suisse Research Institute published its first Global Wealth Report on October 8, 2010. Examining the wealth pyramid from rich to poor, and across countries and regions, it offers a host of new insights and perspectives. The report analyzes the world’s entire 200 trillion US dollars of wealth, through the lens of the wealth pyramid and sheds light on areas such as the differences in wealth across countries and regions, and how they have changed during the past decade. It also describes the pattern of wealth within countries and by gender, as well as systematic differences in household portfolios. It for instance points out that the global wealth currently held by 4.4 billion adults has increased by 72 percent since 2000, to reach 195 trillion dollars. Driven by robust economic expansion in the emerging markets, the Credit Suisse Research Institute estimates that global wealth will grow 60 percent to 314 trillion dollars by 2015. The middle segment of the global wealth pyramid is composed of one billion individuals who are located in the fastest-growing economies of the world and hold one-sixth or 32 trillion dollars of global wealth. In total, almost 60 percent or 587 million individuals in the middle segment of the wealth pyramid are located in Asia Pacific. China stands out as the third-largest wealth generator in the world, behind only the US and Japan, and is 35 percent ahead of the wealthiest European country.”