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Career Aspirations and Barclays

Barclays: The investment bank published its annual review of its high-net worth individuals on Monday. It shows the world wealthiest are becoming more mobile and worldly than ever. , according to CBC. "The wealthy are increasingly being motivated to move between countries in order to fulfill their international career aspirations, seize financial opportunities and ensure a better quality education for their children," Barclays said in the report, which polls more than 2,000 of the bank customers around the world, each with a net worth of at least $1.5 million of investable assets. A report out from venerable British bank Barclays released Monday said almost half of its rich clientele plan on leaving the country in the next five years, more than millionaires from any other country. More than 40 per cent of them have lived in more than one country the first time since Barclays started keeping track that that been the case. More than a fifth of them have lived in at least three countries. China struggles with its wealth gap (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.