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#48

Global wealth hit $333 trillion in 2025 and the map of where it sits is being redrawn. Hong Kong has overtaken Switzerland as the world's largest offshore wealth hub. Asia's HNW investors know what they want but lack the structures to act on it. Family offices are repositioning at a record pace, hedging geopolitical risk and quietly reducing dollar exposure. Meanwhile, the ultra-wealthy are cashing out at market highs, AI money is flooding philanthropy, and the oceans are being repriced as a financial asset.

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#47

Tax optimization, sports franchises, and philanthropic legacy all share the same blind spot: the gap between what wealth promises and what the structures built around it can actually deliver. Relocating for tax reasons looks simpler than it is. Private markets have scaled faster than the infrastructure meant to manage them. And a second Gilded Age is flooding giving with capital while producing fewer institutions designed to last. This week, the architecture of wealth is under scrutiny.

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#46

Business schools are chasing the great wealth transfer, Revolut is knocking on private banking's door, and AI is quietly rewiring the family office. This week maps the forces reshaping how wealth is managed, advised, and transfered. Plus a philanthropy power list, Britain's billionaire count, superyacht season in Sardinia, and a Women in FinTech seminar worth your attention.

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#45

This week, we track capital at its most concentrated and most contested: billionaires bunkerizing, family offices going institutional, and OpenAI's $130 billion philanthropic bet heading to court. We take stock of the AI race through the lens of the leaders shaping it, zoom out on the Venice Biennale and Cannes as the season's two defining cultural moments, and ask why the art we place in public keeps vanishing. Scale is the thread running through it all; who has it, who wields it, and who gets left out.

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#44

Succession is the theme no one can escape this week. The Del Vecchio heirs close a €10 billion inheritance saga. Ocorian maps a family office sector asking what happens when wealth outlives its founder. UBS reminds us the families who navigate it best aren't the ones with the best lawyers. Elsewhere: Apollo declares pickleball an asset class, dot-com stocks make an AI-powered comeback, and Frieze New York turns 15.

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#43

The week in one frame: succession theatre at LVMH, a record migration of millionaires with nowhere they have to be, private banks retreating upmarket and leaving a gap, and a neuroscientist-billionaire quietly betting on the brain. Meanwhile, trading cards get cap tables, vineyards hold their ground, and the Knight Frank numbers confirm what everyone already suspected, the UHNW universe keeps expanding, but the real story is how its members are choosing to live inside it.

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#42

A week across wealth, markets, and taste: from Corient’s continued European expansion and evolving family investment strategies to the growing convergence of luxury, wine, and institutional capital. Against a backdrop of long-term megatrends shaping possible futures for 2050, the wealthy continue to position, allocate, and adapt across shifting regimes of growth, regulation, and influence.

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#41

As AI-fueled fortunes reshape global dynasties and longevity emerges as a trillion-dollar opportunity, this week explores how capital is being structured, deployed, and contested at the highest levels, from the reinvention of wealth management models to the growing complexity of intergenerational transfers.

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#40

In this week's edition, donor-advised funds and evergreen funds remain UHNWIs’ preferred approaches to giving back and investing, while we explore how modern athletes build immense wealth and the emerging services and insights shaping the world of UHNWIs.

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#39

Blackstone courts private wealth with a golfer, family offices push into new markets, and prehistoric fossils join the trophy asset conversation, while Iranian money frozen on London's Billionaires' Row reminds us how capital moves when no one is watching. Monaco defies gravity, One Hyde Park turns fifteen, and Alexander Hoare asks what it takes to thrive without selling your soul.

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#38

A record surge in global billionaires, the rise of family offices as capital powerhouses, the change of investment perspectives as a new generation enters the scene and a new NYSE push toward tokenized markets signal how the ecosystem around wealth is being fundamentally redefined.

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#37

From AI adoption and real estate reinvention to the quiet unraveling of philanthropic pledges and the rise of Pokémon as a portfolio play, this week's edition tackles how the ultra-wealthy rethink wealth, its purpose and its allocation. The 2026 Art Basel x UBS report offers a deep dive on the current art market rebound.

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