Diploma Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1, International University of Monaco, language: English, abstract: The past decades have seen an impressive growth in private wealth on agiobai scale. As a measure of this trend, Forbes magazine, in its ranking of the world's richest people 20 years ago, listed around 140 billionaires. In 2010, the list contained 1,011, an increase of 218 compared to 2009, but still shy of the record 1,125 in 20081 Businessmen and other affluent investors are very good at creating wealth,...