Wealth

UniCredit Private Banking Receives Euromoney Awards
UniCredit Private Banking has been recognized for its services, winning 14 awards in different regional and local categories in Euromoney magazine´s Private Banking Survey 2015.
February 10, 2015

Austrian Households Hold Financial Assets Worth € 500bn
Last year, financial assets grew by 1.4% in nominal terms. New debts grew by 0.5% only.
April 24, 2014

Austria: Distribution of Wealth Extremely Unequal
The top one percent of Austrian households possesses more than 50 percent of all investment income.
January 13, 2014

Global Wealth Report: Austrians Richer than Before 2008
This year, the financial assets of private households exceeded the level of 2007 for the first time.
September 24, 2013

Vienna: Distribution of Wealth Highly Unequal
In Austria´s capital, 30% of the households own 92% of the net assets.
January 3, 2013

Austria: Prosperity Gap Grows Further
The economic disparities between Austrians continue to increase. 855,000 Austrians are affected of poverty.
November 19, 2012

Austria: Properties Worth € 10bn Inherited Every Year
According to Raiffeisen Bausparkasse, Austria faces a boom in real estate inheritances.
November 7, 2012

Austria Shows Growing Inequality in Wealth Distribution
According to a study of OeNB (Austrian National Bank), the 3,77 million Austrian households have assets of € 265,033 on average. Median assets reach € 76,445.
October 2, 2012

Austrian Financial Assets Decreasing
Austria is still among the wealthiest nations worldwide. According to a study of the German insurer Allianz, Austria ranks 15.
September 18, 2012

Significant Decrease in Security Holdings
In 2011, the volume of securities held by Austrian household declined substantially, which is due to the fall in share prices.
January 20, 2012

Gold Remains Popular for Austrians
27% of Austrians expect higher profits from gold than from shares, bonds or investment funds.
October 22, 2011

Economic Crisis: Austrians Pessimistic
The majority of Austrians thinks that the economic crisis will persist and will become even worse.
October 1, 2011

Austrian Households with Second Lowest Debt Ratio in Western Europe
A lower ratio was only recorded for Belgium. In the year 2010, Austrians’ gross financial assets averaged € 59,346.
September 14, 2011

Wealth Growth of Private Households Comes to a Halt
Austrian households’ financial assets increased only marginally to € 462bn in the first quarter. Investments in bank bonds were the driving factor with a total of € 1.1bn.
July 14, 2011

Austria Has 37,000 Dollar-Millionaires
Global wealth has grown by 8% in the last year. Austria is found among the countries with the highest concentration of millionaires.
June 1, 2011

Prosperity to Rise, But Savings Propensity on a Decline
Monetary wealth of Austrians expected to rise 14.4% or from € 7,900 to 62,800 by 2015; savings ratio to decrease from 9.1% to 8.1%. In 2010, Austrians saved € 1,819 on average.
May 6, 2011

Wiener Privatbank SE Announces Q1-Q3 2010 Results
Wiener Privatbank records slightly decreasing results
November 24, 2010

Sharp decline in Creation of New Foundations
In particular, legal uncertainty and abolished tax advantages cause the creation of fewer foundations in Austria.
November 10, 2010

Inheritances: A Trillion in the Next 30 Years
The next generation will inherit assets of 80,000 euro per capita.
November 5, 2010