Politicians around the world face a problem when it comes to the overseas rich. They want the spending, taxes and investment that comes with the foreign wealthy. But politicians don’t want to appear to voters as favoring the foreign have-mores over the local middle class. These tensions have played out in the U.K., Switzerland, and even Monaco. Now, they’re bursting out into the open in Singapore.

http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2012/04/04/can-a-country-have-too-many-millionaires/

Economist Marc Faber is often gloomy and almost always contrarian.  Yet his latest prediction on the world’s wealthy may be among his most frightening yet.

http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2012/04/03/the-rich-could-lose-half-their-wealth-in-downturn-says-faber/

Welcome to Research Matters, a new blog highlighting research at the Census Bureau. We aim to discuss important research in government statistics, and stimulate informed debate. Research ranges from substantive topics of interest in demography, economics and other social sciences, to methodological questions, such as the role of statistical modeling in surveys, designs for the Decennial Census, research on record linkage and confidentiality protection.

http://researchmatters.blogs.census.gov/

Although the economy remains a concern for most nonprofit organizations, for the first time in four years many groups saw an increase in donations in 2011, a new report from the Nonprofit Research Collaborative finds.

http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=375800004

While the post-Budget headlines were dominated by the cut in the top rate of income tax, the freeze on pensioners' allowances and the imposition of VAT on Cornish pasties, it was one brief announcement by George Osborne that sent a chill through the charity fundraising sector.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/philanthropists-giving-up-giving-7601126.html

...we would like to share one idea suggested by Sir Ronald Cohen, known as the father of European venture capital, who has turned his entrepreneurial skills to the social enterprise sector. In 2007, he co-founded Social Finance U.K., a British organization that has developed a financial instrument that pays investors a return based on measured improvement in a particular social issue. What is extraordinary is how it is constructed and how it calculates its return on investment.

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/apr/03/tp-brits-philanthropy-model-could-pay-dividends/

Two weeks before Tax Day, hedge funds are facing their own deadline today. You may not spot any hedge-fund titans racing to the local post office today before it closes, but today’s date has loomed on the calendars of many funds – and their securities regulator – for months.

blogs.wsj.com/deals/2012/03/30/registration-day-hedge-funds-face-deadline-for-sec-sign-up

Hedge funds have endured a rough year. Tumultuous markets. Tighter regulations. An insider trading crackdown. But despite the lackluster environment, the top managers still took home $14.4 billion in 2011.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/large-hedge-funds-fared-well-in-2011/

It’s now officially a lost decade for home prices. With the release of the January data for the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller Home Price Indexes, prices in a national composite dropped 3.8% from a year before, rolling back to the levels of early 2003.

http://moneyland.time.com/2012/03/27/housing-prices-fall-to-2003-levels-but-demand-may-be-building/

Executives who successfully steered their companies through the quagmire of recession are now reaping their rewards undefined although some CEOs might have hoped there would be more.
As companies get healthier, employees' average pay rises and stock prices soar, 2011 brought a year of slight raises for CEOs. While another year of raises comes off one of the biggest increases ever for executive pay in 2010, it wasn't the bonanza CEOs have seen in prior years. Meanwhile, unemployment remains high for most workers.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/story/2012-03-28/ceo-pay-executive-compensation/53839786/1