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- 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

- 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

- Thirty-six per cent of affluent Albertans are women

- More than two-thirds of high-net worth individuals in Alberta are self-made

- Education pays: 78 per cent hold at least a university degree; only 11 per cent have a high school diploma or less

- Sixty-eight per cent of high-net worth British Columbians were born outside of Canada or are first generation Canadian

- Nearly three quarters of the wealthy in B.C. are self-made millionaires

- Majority of the wealthy are over the age of 50

- Ninety-two per cent of high-net worth individuals in Quebec have completed a graduate, professional or undergraduate degree, compared to 80 per cent nationally

- Nearly two-thirds of millionaires in Quebec are self-made

- Forty-four per cent were either born outside of Canada or are first generation Canadian

- 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

- However, Canadian economy will likely lag that of the U.S. over the next year

- Gold prices drop, but still overvalued

- U.S. equity markets continue upward trend

- Return on bonds driven more by term exposure than by credit type