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Sep 25, 2012 | Contributor: Tara Imperatore | 1 CommentThe question is always being thrown around: “If you won the lottery, what is the first thing you would buy?” The normal answers: a house for my parents; a private jet to travel the world; my favorite professional sports team. The world’s billionaires didn’t make their heaps of cash playing scratch offs, but they certainly know how to indulge in some interesting guilty pleasures — because if money can’t buy extravagant, unnecessary nonsense, what is it good for?... Read More | 
Sep 19, 2012 | Contributor: JustLuxe Team | 2 CommentsThough many in the States are suffering from the current economic crisis, not everyone around the world is feeling the same impact. A recent report stated that Asia continues to produce more and more millionaires, and will eventually result in the wealth of those high net worth persons with assets totaling $1 million or more to triple in by 2015.... Read More | 
Sep 13, 2012 | Contributor: Susan Kime | 2 CommentsIf there ever has been two complimentary instincts in humans, they are to acquire, then to protect the acquisition. Safes have been in existence for as long as people had products they felt needed protection. And, as the high-end acquired assets as the world was becoming more unstable, the luxury safe business grew. Today, it is booming.... Read More | 
Sep 11, 2012 | Contributor: Sophie Doran | 1 CommentWhen it comes to auctions, its not just post-war paintings that are setting new records. The luxury end of the property market is positively booming in London, New York, Hong Kong and Dubai.... Read More | 
Sep 7, 2012 | Contributor: Susan Kime | 2 CommentsIn Alain de Bouton's exceptional book, The Architecture Of Happiness, he argues that the idea of home relates to our own prized internal song. The concept of home, or residence, can be anywhere, but it must serve as a refuge "to shore up our states of mind,” and we need rooms “to align us to desirable versions of ourselves, and keep alive the evanescent sides of us."... Read More | 
Sep 6, 2012 | Contributor: Tara Imperatore | 3 CommentsAs a hard working U.S. citizen, I look at the minimum wage in Australia (currently set at $15.96) with intrigue and a bit of envy. Gina Rinehart, the richest woman in the world, sees it as an obstacle in adding even more money to her already $18 billion bankroll.... Read More | 
Aug 31, 2012 | Contributor: JustLuxe Team | 1 CommentIt looks like the U.S. isn’t the only one in a debate over taxing the wealthy. While President Obama and Mitt Romney go head-to-head with their ideas on how to better our current economic situation, across the pond, Deputy Prime Minster Nick Clegg is discussing an “emergency” tax on high-net-worth Brits, according to CNBC.... Read More | 
Aug 22, 2012 | Contributor: Tara Imperatore | 1 CommentThough millions of Americans are feeling the various effects of the recession, the Rich Kids of Instagram don’t seem to know the meaning of the word. In case you haven’t been introduced to RKOI yet, it’s a Tumblr page that compiles photos from different Instagram accounts of the flashy offspring of the extremely affluent. The images are framed in gilded gold and accompanied by hash tags such as #rkoi, #weath, #nojob #no problem, #mansion, #bentley, and captions like “$4000 bottle of champagne bitch" and “Our everyday is better than your best day.”... Read More | 
Jul 23, 2012 | Contributor: Susan KimeIt has been called a Recession Hangover, an Emotional Recession, Stagflation, and even worse, an Invisible Depression, all descriptions of the now sluggish U.S. economy, and an apt descriptor of the recession of the global economy as well.... Read More | 
Jun 27, 2012 | Contributor: Susan KimeWhen John Keats wrote these lines in 1818, he did not know how right he was, and just how much that his words anticipated an emerging cultural and fiscal trend 194 years later. In May 2012, Edvard Munch’s The Scream sold for a record USD$120 million at Sotheby’s in New York after a period of bidding lasting just 12 minutes... Read More | 
May 16, 2012 | Contributor: Susan Kime | 1 CommentThe 2012 American Express Publishing Luxury Summit was just completed, and one of its main concentrations was, as it has always been in the past, relevant research about wealth and affluence—based on surveys, interviews and focus groups conducted by the Harrison Group, led by Dr. Jim Taylor, Vice Chairman.... Read More | 
May 10, 2012 | Contributor: Susan Kime | 3 CommentsAt the end of the day, research value is often determined by methods of data collection used. We have written before on Ron Kurtz, CEO of The American Affluence Research Center and his research, as his is the type of work that stands the test of time: it is longitudinal, being the 21st in a continuing series of twice-yearly surveys;... Read More | 
Mar 29, 2012 | Contributor: James Rothaar | 1 CommentWith the jackpot of the California Lottery setting at a new all-time high of $500 million, the sales of lottery tickets are soaring. The situation has provided some extra-special attention in the direction of a niche, luxury service club that enables California residents to buy lottery tickets online.... Read More | 
Mar 12, 2012 | Contributor: JustLuxe TeamThere's no denying that Taylor Swift is one talented 22 year old, and making it to #1 on Billboard's Top 40 Money Makers 2012 list solidifies that.... Read More | 
Mar 7, 2012 | Contributor: Susan KimeThe basic definition of impact investing combines the words well with good: doing well and doing good. Back in the old days, say, a few years ago, if you wanted to invest money in a company or stock or industry, you would look at the single bottom line: the financial return.... Read More | | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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