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  2. AI engines replacing search as starting point for affluent travel research: report 
  3. Book excerpt: The New Codes of Luxury: From Heritage to Human Desire 
  4. What is the future of work and the workplace? 
  5. Consumer trust in AI set to grow 15 percentage points by 2030: report
  6. Consumers in Middle East's GCC countries to up spend 50pc on beauty from 2025 to 2030: report
  7. How AI shopping can quietly erode brand loyalty – and what it means for luxury 
  8. Growth that works today is not always the growth that builds tomorrow
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Wealth management

196 self-made billionaires drove wealth to record $15.8 trillion, up 13pc over 12 months

December 5, 2025

Women's average wealth is growing twice as fast as men's, the result of both a wealth transfer as well as entrepreneurialism, according to a new study on global billionaire wealth. Image credit: Shutterstock Women's average wealth is growing twice as fast as men's, the result of both a wealth transfer as well as entrepreneurialism, according to a new study on global billionaire wealth. Image credit: Shutterstock

 

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A new generation of billionaires is emerging that includes entrepreneurs innovating at scale across sectors and markets, even as the great wealth transfer intensifies with heirs inheriting more than ever before.

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