It’s official. This tormented, heated, traumatised planet is now home to over 3,000 billionaires.  (That number was reached ...
The richest 10 percent of the world’s population now owns three-quarters of all personal wealth, according to the newly released World Inequality Report 2026. Income is not much different, where the ...
In 2017, the business world paused at a shocking statistic: eight men held as much wealth as the poorest half of humanity. By ...
When researchers measure wealth inequality, they use something called the Gini coefficient. Think of it as a score between 0 and 1, where 0 means everyone has exactly the same wealth and 1 means one ...
A homeless man pushes a shopping cart full of his belongings across an intersection in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles. [AP Photo/Jae C. Hong] The recently released UBS Global Wealth Report 2025 ...
Despite slowing economies in parts of Europe and Asia, global household wealth surged again in 2024, hitting a record €269 trillion (U$312.6 trillion). The new Allianz Global Wealth Report 2025 ...
The world’s richest people saw their wealth increase more than ever in 2025, but a funny thing happened along the way. Many of them seemed to decide that their best prospects for the future don’t lie ...
Happiness and well-being depend on how much volition, choice and control people feel they have over their life—their sense of ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. April Rudin, The Rudin Group CEO, covers wealth management, wealthtech Jul 18, 2025, 08:00am EDT Jul 18, 2025, 10:57am EDT ...
The wealth gap isn’t just growing. It’s reached a point where millionaire households control nearly half of all personal wealth on the planet, according to UBS’ 2025 Global Wealth Report. That ...