Two things make wealth management a particularly fruitful area for the gifted amateur.
"You see this happening often, one generation would make the wealth, and the next two or three will lose it, " Ault says.
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It may well accord with human perceptions of equity, of fairness, that those with great wealth should be taxed heavily on the returns they make from that wealth.
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Third, we need to work with governments around the world to set guidelines to make these sovereign wealth funds more transparent.
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And this is why to go beyond safety net programs to redistribute further just to make incomes and wealth more equal is counterproductive and not justifiable.
As a result, national governments are being urged to consider more private-public partnerships, while new guidelines are suggested to make it easier for pensions funds and sovereign wealth funds to make long-term investments.
Today, we have a duty to make sure that resource wealth does not fuel conflict, corruption and crime.
We also need to make sure that mineral wealth in developing countries becomes a blessing, not a curse.
This issue is especially replete with ways to make money or preserve wealth.
For nearly a century, between 1560 and 1640, this bilateral trade would earn Portugal fabulous wealth and make Macau a linchpin in her globe-straddling network of trade.
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These competing visions make drastically divergent assumptions regarding wealth and the appropriate fulcrum balancing private and public functions.
Safe property rights, secure contracts and sensible economic policies make all the difference between wealth and poverty, he said.
And this illusion was that material wealth does not make that much of a difference in how happy people are.
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Within these parameters, there is a framework for businesses to create wealth and thereby make a positive impact on the world.
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Doesn't make any difference about their wealth and fame and notoriety.
So, too, is the phase when oil wealth alone could make and keep the region prosperous, as well as insulate Gulf societies from the buffeting winds of globalisation.
The point is that every transaction involves tradeoffs, and a slightly less desirable house at a far more agreeable price can make the difference between building wealth and overextending yourself.
Ms Junz looks at the wealth of those citizens she can identify as Jewish on the basis of contemporary documents and is able to make informed estimates as to how that wealth was held: in commercial enterprises or in financial assets, a significant part of which was foreign (one of the surprises is how frequently individuals in the 1930s owned foreign securities).
As Obama talks about decreasing the wealth gap between Americans, Romney needs to make the case for why his pro-growth economic policies will increase wealth for all Americans.
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If we try to make people better off without creating wealth, we get the Greek tragedy.
His wealth and mayoral scepter make him one of the most powerful billionaires in the world.
There are some brands of wealth redistribution that would make foreign investors very jittery, such as higher taxes.
The paper said that Blackstone was creating a consortium, thought to include a Chinese sovereign wealth fund, to make the bid.
Meanwhile countries like Hungary and Belarus continue to contend with corruption issues and political deadlock that make it difficult to create sustainable wealth.
And because of that, Rio de Janeiro thinks that its newfound Petrobras oil wealth can one day make their Atlantic Ocean the North Sea of Norway.
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