{"id":460,"date":"2008-07-16T11:12:40","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T11:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=460"},"modified":"2008-07-22T11:19:46","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T11:19:46","slug":"high-net-worth-investors-increasing-green-portfolios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/high-net-worth-investors-increasing-green-portfolios\/","title":{"rendered":"High net worth investors increasing green portfolios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 12th  annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.us.capgemini.com\/worldwealthreport08\/\" target=\"_blank\">World Wealth Report 2008<\/a> released by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capgemini.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Capgemini<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ml.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Merrill Lynch<\/a> states there are over 10 million people globally with at least $1 million of financial assets in 2007, an increase of 6% over 2006.<\/p>\n<p>High net worth investors invested in safety last year with 44% of their financial assets in cash and fixed income securities.  Uncertainty in 2007 lead these investors away from alternative investments, such as hedge funds, although hedge funds still make up 30% of alternative investments.<\/p>\n<p>With 2007&#8217;s market uncertainties, green investing show marked growth in 2007 among the very rich. Worldwide, 12% of HNWIs allocate part of their portfolios to green sectors including alternative energy.\u00a0  HNWIs in Europe and the Middle East lead the way in green investments: 17% of European HNWIs and 20% of Middle Eastern HNWIs are invested in green.\u00a0 Only 5% of North American HNWIs show a green portion of their portfolio.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialfunds.com\/news\/article.cgi\/article2530.html\">Social Funds report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 12th annual World Wealth Report 2008 released by Capgemini and Merrill Lynch states there are over 10 million people globally with at least $1 million of financial assets in 2007, an increase of 6% over 2006. High net worth investors invested in safety last year with 44% of their financial assets in cash and &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/high-net-worth-investors-increasing-green-portfolios\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">High net worth investors increasing green portfolios<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responsible-investing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-7q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}