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- Almost half of high-net worth Ontarians were either born outside of Canada or are first generation Canadians

- More than one-third of Ontario's wealthy are women

- Sixty-four per cent are self-made millionaires

- Education is key: 77 per cent hold at least a university a degree; just 14 per cent have a high school diploma or less

- Atlantic Canada has the highest percentage of self-made millionaires in Canada

- The region also has the highest percentage of wealthy women in Canada

- Education matters: More than three-quarters of the region's affluent have at least a university undergraduate degree

- Only three percent attribute their wealth to an inheritance

- More than one-third of high-net worth Americans are women

- One-third of the nation's wealthy were either born outside of the U.S. or are first generation Americans

- One-quarter are under the age of 40 and more than half have a graduate or professional degree

BMO Private Bank Releases Changing Face of Wealth Study

- Sixty-eight percent of high-net worth Floridians are self-made

- The same percentage are at least second-generation Americans

- More than one-third are women, majority are over the age of 65

- Education matters: An impressive 93 percent hold at least a university degree; 66 percent hold a graduate or professional degree

- Nearly 60 percent of high-net-worth Arizonans are self-made

- 40 percent of Arizona millionaires are women

- 75 percent are 65 years or older

- Nearly 90 percent hold a bachelor or graduate degree

- Seventy percent of Hoosiers with $1 million+ in investible assets are self-made

- Thirty-three percent of Indiana's wealthy are women

- Fifteen percent are under 40

- Seventy percent of high-net worth Illinois residents are self-made

- More than one-third are women; almost 20 percent are under the age of 40

- Twenty-eight percent were either born outside of the U.S. or are first generation Americans

- Education matters: Almost 85 percent hold at least a college degree; only eight percent state high school is the highest level of education they have completed

- Across North America, women's wealth is increasing eight percent annually

- Eighty-nine percent of affluent Washingtonians have a bachelors and/or graduate degree

- Almost two-thirds are self made; one-quarter are new Americans

- Ninety-four percent of the high-net worth in the state are over the age of 50

- Two-thirds of affluent Canadians are self-made millionaires

- Almost half of Canada's wealthy are either immigrants or first generation Canadians versus only one-third in the U.S.

- One-third of high-net worth Canadians are women, compared to 21 per cent in 2010

- Education Matters: 80 per cent have at least an undergraduate university degree

- U.S. millionaires tend to be younger than Canada's

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