The streets of London might not be paved with gold, however there’s nonetheless clearly loads of it round.
One in 39 Londoners—or 227,000 individuals in a inhabitants of 8.8 million—have at the very least $1 million of liquid, investable wealth, based on the World’s Wealthiest Cities Report 2024.
The analysis, compiled by Henley & Companions and New World Wealth, ranks the U.Okay. capital fifth globally for its high-net-worth inhabitants, behind New York (349,500 millionaires), San Francisco and the Bay Space (305,700), Tokyo (298,300) and Singapore (244,800).
Paris got here in seventh on the earth and second in Europe, with 165,000 liquid millionaires. Regardless of being dwelling to the world’s richest particular person, Bernard Arnault, the French capital additionally trails London in whole billionaires, with 23 to London’s 35.
It isn’t stunning to search out high-net price people (HNWIs) congregating in main world cities like these, the place a lot wealth is each created and managed.
Nonetheless, the rankings mirror greater than the financial exercise of the cities in query. Insurance policies have an effect too.
London and the U.Okay. extra broadly have been traditionally extremely profitable in attracting overseas HNWIs, however based on Henley’s information the nation has skilled internet outflows of millionaires for the reason that Brexit vote in 2016.
“No matter one could take into consideration the deserves of Brexit, this cohort is voting with its ft. Coupled with the coverage change to take away everlasting non-domiciled taxpayer standing, Brexit has made the UK much less hospitable and welcoming to HNWIs,” former Lloyds Financial institution Industrial chief economist Trevor Williams commented final yr.
A surge in millionaire internet outflows additionally occurred in 2022-3, with round 5,000 individuals estimated to have left—one thing more likely to be related to the U.Okay.’s abrupt ending of its tier 1 investor (or ‘golden’) visa after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
London and Paris have been joined by 15 different European cities within the world prime 50, with Dublin having the quickest rising millionaire inhabitants and Moscow the quickest falling.
