The number of rich and super rich is growing fast in Shanghai, tells Hurun founder Rupert Hoogewerf in The China Daily. But unlike their global colleagues, Shanghai rich tend to be business owners, and to a lesser degree real estate developer.Read More →
The super-wealthy in China get ever more spending power, but very few know what they are actually looking for. Hurun and the Imdustrial Bank asked them and Hurun founder Rupert Hoogewerf shares in the China Daily the results.Read More →
The famous Hurun’ Rich List released its Global edition of 83 individuals with 10 billions US dollar or more in assets, Hurun’s founder Rupert Hoogewerf told news agency Xinhua. Five of them are Chinese.Read More →
We decided to continue our top-5 most-read stories of the past month, this time for February 2012. For us it is a sign what kind of stories are most popular among our readers, and potential clientsRead More →
The 70 richest members of the National People’s Congress, China’s legislative body, collected more wealth than their US brethren, discovered Rupert Hoogewerf, founder and managing director of Hurun, a Shanghai research body focusing on China’s rich, according to Bloomberg.Read More →
Chinese growing number of millionaires are a different breed compared to those in other parts of the world, tells Rupert Hoogewerf or Hurun, composer of the China Rich List to ABC from Australia.Read More →
Chinese new year is nearing fast, a traditional gift-giving season. Most of those luxury gifts from China’s rich are foreign, European to be precise, says a study done by Hurun, the research company founded by Rupert Hoogewerf, reports the China Daily. Only Chinese liquor moutai makes it into the top-10.Read More →
The purchase of world’s largest yacht-maker Ferretti Group to a Chinese bulldozer maker Shandong Heavy might be taken a another sign of China’s drive to go global, China’s rich still have to discover the excitement of of yachting, tells Hurun founder Rupert Hoogewerf in Bloomberg. China is not a natural home market.Read More →
The financial crisis in both Europe and the US is deepening, so it is no wonder that the November top-10 of most sought-after speakers has a few of our financial specialists on top. Both Shaun Rein and Victor Shih have been trying to dispel especially European hopes China could bail their economy out.Read More →
One of the mantra’s in our communication with our speakers is: make yourself heard. So we push them to write on weblogs, mainstream media and some of the many social media: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and the upcoming force: Google+. Read More →
China’s rich are increasingly protecting themselves against the volatility of the stock and real estate markets by cashing out. A new Hurun China rich list documents the billionaires in cash, tells Hurun founder Rupert Hoogewerf to local media.
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When Liang Wengen, currently China’s richest entrepreneur, is voted next year into the Central Committee, that is largely a symbolic move, illustrating the symbiotic relationship between the Communist Party and private entrepreneurs, tells Rupert Hoogewerf or Hurun in CNN.Read More →