Changing Patterns of Wealth Distribution: Evidence from Ghana

Changing distribution models for the New Affluent Wealth Management client

Wealth Managers are currently facing significant uncertainty in servicing their clients, and change is needed now to meet this challenge. Whilst, upper end Private Banking has maintained personal relationship based advice between clients and banker as the primary distribution method, there has been a changing dynamic in affluent clients using Wealth Management services, both in what they expect...

The pattern of income distribution and wealth from the perspective of the Holy Quran

Abstract An optimal pattern is expected to simplify complex phenomena on a small scale. The pattern of income distribution and wealth from the perspective of the Holy Quran to the systematic set of foundations and infrastructures (such as the true ownership of God (his will) on existence, the substitution of man and the trustworthiness of property in his hands); goals (spirituality, justice ...

Distribution of Wealth

Farmers Willingness to Pay for Crop Insurance: Evidence from Eastern Ghana

Crop insurance is a risk management tool with the potential of dealing with risk more efficiently, the study uses a dichotomous contingent valuation method to elicit the willingness to pay for crop insurance among cereal farmers in the Eastern region of Ghana. The study employed descriptive statistical techniques to analyse primary data obtained from 208 sampled farmers in the region. Approxima...

The Distribution of Household Wealth in Australia: Evidence from the 2010 HILDA Survey

The HILDA Survey is a panel survey of around 7 000 households conducted annually since 2001, the latest being in 2010. Every four years the survey includes a wealth module that asks respondents detailed questions about their holdings of assets and liabilities; the wealth module was included in the survey in 2002, 2006 and 2010. These data are especially interesting because they can shed light o...