Balder Ex-Libris - Beaverstock Jonathan V.Review of books rare and missing2024-03-16T01:56:42+00:00urn:md5:aa728a70505b2fae05796923271581c2DotclearBeaverstock Jonathan V. - The struggle to belongurn:md5:65ebca341fb353ad7da77511afedcf7d2015-06-15T23:51:00+01:002015-06-15T22:54:55+01:00balderBeaverstock Jonathan V.EconomyEuropeNetherlandsRacesSociologySociology <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img3/Beaverstock_Jonathan_V_-_The_struggle_to_belong.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Beaverstock Jonathan V.</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The struggle to belong : Dealing with diversity in 21st Century urban settings The privileged world city: Private banking, wealth management and the bespoke servicing of the global super-rich</strong><br />
Year : 2011<br />
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Abstract. At the beginning of the Millennium, the richest 1% of the world population (about 50 million) received as much as the bottom 57% (2.7 billion) (UNDP, 2002), and during the mid-2000s, about 2% of the world‟s adult population possessed more than 50% of total global wealth (Davies, 2008). In the United States of America and the United Kingdom, on the back of the roaring bull market, a wave of neo-liberalism and muted income redistributive policies, the „super-rich‟ have swelled their numbers as never before (Haseler, 1999; Irvin, 2008; Lundberg, 1988; Smith, 2001; Thorndike, 1980; Wolff, 1996). Publications like the Forbes Rich and Billionaire Lists and The Sunday Times Rich List, have made transparent the once secretive worlds of the rich. Importantly, the „super-rich‟ are now an identifiable market in their own right. Those wealthy individuals with investable assets greater than US$1 million are now labelled as „high net worth individuals‟ and these totalled 10 million in 2009, with accumulated wealth approximating US$39.0 trillion (Merrill Lynch CapGemini, 2010). Given the global market value of this segment of the population, servicing the billionaire, multi-millionaire and „meagre‟ millionaire has become a multi-billion US$ industry. Just as world cities are the „basing points‟ for international capital (Friedmann, 1986), they are the places where the „super-rich‟ connect with a bespoke, exclusive and privileged circuit of economic relations in the form of private banking and wealth management. The rest of this paper will be organised in four main sections: first, conceptualising the identifiable traits of the super-rich; second, defining, quantifying and locating the „super-rich‟ in global society; third, introducing the privileged world city economies of private banking and wealth management; and finally, several conclusions which muses about the super-rich being the super-class in global society. <strong>...</strong></p>Beaverstock Jonathan V. - Faulconbridge James R. - Wealth segmentation and the mobilities of the super-richurn:md5:4af9495e9bf9fd42057c69f55ae7eff02015-06-15T23:46:00+01:002015-06-15T22:53:51+01:00balderBeaverstock Jonathan V.AnthropologyEconomyRacesRacialismSociology <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img3/Beaverstock_Jonathan_V_-_Faulconbridge_James_R_-_Wealth_segmentation_and_the_mobilities_of_the_super-rich.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Authors : <strong>Beaverstock Jonathan V. - Faulconbridge James R.</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Wealth segmentation and the mobilities of the super-rich : A conceptual framework</strong><br />
Year : 2014<br />
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Introduction. Running parallel to everyday mobilities in society exist a privileged circuit of capital accumulation which is bespoke to the normal lives of the so called, ‘super-rich’ or ‘plutocrats’: the multi-millionaires and billionaires of the world (Beaverstock et al., 2004; Beaverstock, 2011; Elliott and Urry, 2010; Freeland, 2012). From private jets, first class and luxurious limousine travel, to super-yachts, collections of prestige cars and concierge services, the mobilities of the super-rich, whose number reached over 10 million worldwide from 2009 (Capgemini Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management (CMLGWM), 2010; 2011), occupy an intriguing juxtaposition in the mobilities discourse. On the one hand, super-rich mobilities are often invisible, like for example in the fleets of private jets or helicopters that ferry the Forbes rich-list individuals, company C.E.O.’s and celebrities on business trips. But, on the other hand, the super-rich display in very overt and opulent ways their luxurious mobilities (see, Kaplan, 2007), like for example Roman Abramovich’s world’s biggest (and most expensive at £740million) super-yacht, Eclipse (The Sunday Times, 2010), which has become ‘fair-game’ for the global press and paparazzi (see, McNamara, 2009). The purpose of this chapter is to provide the first conceptual framework which unpicks the wealth segments of the super-rich, starting at liquid assets of US$1 million (high net worth individuals) and up to the ‘top-tier’ billionaires like Carlos Slim Helu – Telecoms (US$69bn), Bill Gates III - Microsoft (US$61.0bn) and Warren Buffett – Berkshire Hathaway (US$44bn) (Forbes World Billionaires List, 2012). <strong>...</strong></p>