Instead, more people gain their wealth through wages and welfare, ranking second on the source of wealth list. This part of the population is mainly corporate executives or technical professionals. Most interviewees were optimistic about the high-tech and medical industries providing future sources of wealth.
When it comes to investment preferences, high net worth population has increased interest in fixed income and trust products, and obvious declined interests in the stock and real estate.
In 2012, with the slowdown in China's overall economic situation, the high net worth population tends to more stable, low-risk investment products. Fixed income and trust products ARE sought after by high net worth clients, with more than 60 percent in the respondents expressed interest in investing.
In addition to the fixed income and trust products, the rest of the investment products in accordance with the order of interest are: savings and cash management products, real estate investment, investment in kind (works of art, antiques, etc.), stock products, insurance, private equity investment / venture capital, financial derivatives and any form of overseas investment.
The proportion of those who are interested in the real estate and stocks were 36 percent and 34 percent in 2011, and dropped to 24 percent and 17 percent in 2012.
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