According to research by the Boston Consultancy Group, Singapore is home to the highest percentage of millionaires anywhere in the world. As many as one in six households have a disposable income of $1 million, and that excludes the value of their properties. Unsurprisingly, earlier this year Singapore was ranked the happiest country in Asia in a United Nations survey.
If not the most cheerful, certainly the richest family are the Lees, coming in 22nd on FinanceAsia's 2015 Rich List, who control Overseas-Chinese banking Corp. OCBC. The lender’s former chairman Lee Seng Wee died in August after fifty years on the OCBC board and his three...