China´s rich make more money than ever, but charity is not keeping pace with that growth, shows the latest Hurun Philanthropy Report. Some “are leaders of the new pack, and it’s still early days,” says Rupert Hoogewerf, founder and chairman of the Hurun Institute to Barron´s.Read More →

Why is retail giant Suning going for one of Europe´s largest soccer clubs, while other Chinese tycoons went for the smaller fish? It is part of the firm´s global strategy, expending into Europe, says Rupert Hoogewerf, founder of the Hurun China rich list in the International Business Times.Read More →

A Hurun rich list survey under China´s rich millenniums, The Chinese Luxury Traveler 2016, shows that Asia is loosing out as travel destination. Japan and South-Korea still do well since they are close, says Hurun chief researcher Rupert Hoogewerf at TTG-Asia, “But in terms of aspirations, this generation wants to go farther.”Read More →

This year the Chinese outnumbered the American billionaires, but by 2020 they will replace the top spots at the global rich list, says China Rich List founder Rupert Hoogewerf in the People´s Daily. Hoogewerf predicts Jack Ma, founder and CEO of China’s E-commerce giant Alibabagroup will overtake Wang Jianlin, the property tycoon, as the wealthiest person on the Chinese mainland.Read More →

While China counts 1,420 people who can afford up to 1,750 business jets with a value of US$52 billion only 32 have done so, according to China Business Aviation Special Report 2016 jointly released by Hurun Report and Minsheng Financial Leasing. But there is a huge market to win, says Hurun founder Rupert Hoogewerf, in different Chinese media.Read More →

China´s campaign against corruption is no longer limited to state-owned companies and organizations, but increasingly turns against private companies too. A logical development, tells China rich list founder Rupert Hoogewerf in the Financial Times in an article about Fosun founder Guo Guangchang.Read More →

Beijing is now having more (US$) billionaires than New York, says Hurun rich list founder Rupert Hoogewerf in his latest report, according to AP, despite the fierce drop in stock prices of the last six months. “People will look at China the same way that people looked at Stanford or Silicon Valley in the 1990s.”Read More →