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'Making a billion dollars is easy, keeping it is hard'

7:35 PM ET Tue, 15 Dec 2015

James Purcell, head of ultra high net worth cross-asset strategy at UBS Wealth Management, discusses the various ways billionaires destroy their wealth.

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