Asians may lead way in online wealth management

Jim O’Neill, chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, is widely credited with coining the acronym 'Bric' in 2001, when he was Goldman Sachs' chief economist. And by 2003, Goldman’s research unit was forecasting that in 2050 Brazil, Russia, India and China would represent a larger economic bloc than the G6. The work has been much debated in the intervening decade, but in wealth management terms one thing is clear, when it comes to creating wealth, two of the four nations stand h…