Editorial: The Wealth Generator

Richard Jory, Editor

What do investors want to buy? The answer at the moment is complicated by a number of factors, not least low interest rates, risk aversion, lack of income, and most recently the ease and speed with which some entrepreneurs have been able to accrue vast amounts of wealth.

The last of these is an emerging markets phenomenon, although it has also spilled into developed markets with the dotcom boom at the turn of the century. But pick any economic boom in any part of the world at any time and you wil