A robust inventory market helped mint 562,000 new millionaires within the U.S. final 12 months, in line with a brand new report.
The nation’s high-net-worth inhabitants grew by 7.6 % to 7.9 million in 2024, far outpacing the two.6 % world rise, Capgemini’s World Wealth Report 2025 exhibits. That home surge helped push the variety of millionaires worldwide to a document 23.4 million.
Excessive-net-worth people (HNWIs), outlined as these with $1 million or extra in investable property, benefited from double-digit returns within the U.S. inventory market, resilience fueled by stronger-than-expected financial progress and sustained enthusiasm for synthetic intelligence and tech shares.
It was additionally a 12 months of wealth focus, with the ultra-rich rising because the clear winners.
Globally, the variety of so-called “millionaires next door” — people value between $1 million and $5 million — grew by 2.4 %. In the meantime, the ultrawealthy inhabitants — these with investable property of $30 million or extra — grew greater than twice as a lot, at 6.2 %.
“Ultra-HNWIs remained resilient during market volatility with greater exposure to high-growth opportunities, whereas Millionaires Next Door focused on safer, low-yield opportunities like fixed-income and real estate,” the report reads.
The rich proceed to favor conventional investments like actual property, shares and stuck earnings property, however various investments like currencies, personal fairness and digital property have gained traction lately.
As of January 2025, HNWI buyers parked 15 % of their portfolios in various investments, together with personal fairness and cryptocurrencies, up from simply 9 % in 2018.
The report additionally highlighted the looming “great wealth transfer,” with older generations anticipated to move on an estimated $83.5 trillion to Gen X, millennials and Gen Z by 2048. Throughout the subsequent decade, girls are projected to obtain a major share of that wealth.
The large switch presents a chance for wealth managers but in addition appreciable danger, Capgemini warned.
“The next-generation of high-net-worth individuals arrive with vastly different expectations to their parents,” Kartik Ramakrishnan, CEO of Capgemini’s Monetary Providers Strategic Enterprise Unit and Group Govt Board Member, stated in a launch.
Ramakrishnan urged wealth administration corporations to shift away from “traditional strategies” and equip advisors with digital capabilities, “potentially augmented with agentic or generative AI.”
Exterior the U.S., India and Japan have been standouts, with each international locations registering 5.6 % progress, including 20,000 and 210,000 millionaires final 12 months. In the meantime, China’s HNWI inhabitants declined by 1 %.
In Europe, the high-net-worth inhabitants additionally declined by 2.1 %, primarily as a consequence of financial stagnation in main international locations corresponding to the UK and Germany. The variety of high-net-worth people shrank within the Center East and Latin America too.
