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July 3


How the Woes of the Wealthy Can Guide You to Global Investing Profits

By Martin Hutchinson
Contributing Editor
Money Morning/The Money Map Report

The Capgemini/Merrill Lynch World Wealth Report appeared last week and it makes for some grim reading.

But it also provides global investors with some insights into the best markets to invest in.

The global population of high net worth individuals, or HNWIs - those with investible assets of more than $1 million - declined 14.9% in 2008, while their total wealth dropped 19.5% to $32.8 trillion. Throughout the world, there are now 8.6 million high-net-worth investors - millionaires or better, the report concludes.

Among the ultra-high-net-worth-investors (ultra-HNWI) - those with investible assets of $30 million or more - the population plunged 24.6% and their wealth by 23.9%. That’s as you might have expected, in a year when global equity values fell close to 50% and

http://www.moneymorning.com/2009/07/02/global-investing-wealth-study/



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Management Strategies For a Jobless Recovery

[Editor's Note: The first in an occasional series that looks at unique strategies for navigating the jobless recovery.]

By Dave Field
Contributing Writer
Money Morning

You’re a manager for a mid-sized U.S. company that’s been forced to slash its work force because of the global financial crisis. And you’ve just received a new assignment: You’re to take over a key department that was hit harder than most by the layoffs.

Morale and productivity have plummeted. Your mandate: Fix it.

It’s one of those assignments that can either be a career-maker - or a career-ender. You want to make sure it’s the former, not the latter, and need to make all the right moves.

What do you do?

In an economy in which the unemployment rate just hit a 25-year high of 9.4% - and is expected to go higher - and that’s seen 6 million workers lose their jobs since the U.S. recession started in December …

http://www.moneymorning.com/2009/07/02/management-secrets-for-a-jobless-recovery/



Investment News Briefs

With our investment news briefs, Money Morning provides investors with a quick overview of the most important investing news stories from all around the world.

Airbus Parent Wins Saudi Security Contract; Automakers Post Losses; Private Sector Payrolls Shrink by 473,000; Gannett to Lay Off at Least 1,000; Pending Home Sales Rise, Mortgages Fall; Gold Breaks $940 Barrier; SEC Approves “Say-on-Pay” Rules; AIG Shares Drop After Split

  • Pan-European aerospace and defense giant EADS NV …

http://www.moneymorning.com/2009/07/02/investment-news-briefs-37/