wealthy individual

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Private credit has burgeoned into a $1 trillion market, fueled by institutional and more recently wealthy individual investors seeking higher yields than in the public markets, with little apparent extra risk.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

The first possibility: A wealthy individual orchestrated the heist in order to take the jewels for themselves.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 21, 2025

Many private-markets firms have already generated interest in their products among wealthy individual investors who work with financial advisers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025

In 1916 there was an effort to create an agency to manage them, led by Stephen Mather, a Berkeley graduate and an independently wealthy individual who loved these large Western landscapes.

From Slate • Aug. 13, 2025

The cultivation of cacao will be most suitable to the less wealthy individual, as it demands so little labor and outlay.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.