“Cruises are a great value and a very convenient way to travel to multiple destinations,” said Ron Kurtz, president of the American Affluence Research Center, Atlanta. “A luxury cruise ship offers high quality food and service as well as all the …

These short-term headwinds are offset by the longer-term secular gorwth story of China's growing affluent class demanding more protection products. New China Life has been wrestling with the shift from towards higher-margin protection products, away …

“A disturbing moral of the story”, Baumol writes, “is that the products most vulnerable to the cost disease include some of the most vital attributes of civilised communities”: activities often associated with public services or which are at the very …

Certainly, many of us in the UK would view some of the company's products as being basic and not particularly glamorous or exciting. For instance, Gaviscon, Calgon, Finish and Nurofen are not exactly products … Therefore, there is the potential for …

Like most explorers, I had a vision of grandeur, a hope for technologic luxury and exciting innovation. The reality is unfortunately more mundane. Wearing my charcoal-colored Glass in public has made me more self-conscious than I expected to be …

News of new Chinese real estate deals are popping up every quarter. Similar moves happened with the Japanese back in the 1980s. Now it's China's turn. And by most estimates, they are snatching up high end real estate in Los Angeles, San Francisco and …

MUMBAI: A shanty in Dharavi is fetching a price of over 1 crore, and real estate prices in Asia's second-largest slum cluster are beating those in posh central Mumbai areas like Lower Parel. Sample this: an 80-sq ft house in Dharavi costs upwards of 25 …

Maintaining a lavish lifestyle and accrued student-loan debt was a part of the problem. Amid the bad spending habits, she says, there were some ill-considered work-related expenses. As a wealth adviser, there was a need to project affluence – by …

In his late 20s he led an amazing jetset lifestyle being part of an affluent Bondi family with connections. A gifted musician, he fled to Los Angeles in the late '70s with a bunch of miscreants to form a British Invasion cover band, complete with …