David Kupara
Founder & Research Lead, GWPI
ACSI · CFIP · AICA · AIPA · IFA · FPWMP® · FMVA®
“Wealth isn’t built overnight — but it’s preserved by those who plan beyond today.”
The Global Wealth Preservation Index (GWPI) measures how well nations protect long-term wealth stability across five pillars: economic stability, governance, diversification, transfer readiness, and ethical finance.
Preserving Wealth Beyond Generations
The Global Wealth Preservation Index (GWPI) is a research framework designed to assess the long-term capacity of jurisdictions to preserve, diversify, and transfer wealth across generations.
GWPI evaluates jurisdictions across five equally weighted pillars:
Indicators are normalized to a 0–10 scale and combined into a composite score, providing a structured basis for comparing the conditions that influence long-term wealth preservation.
The research is intended to support informed analysis by family offices, institutional investors, sovereign allocators, policymakers, and researchers seeking a more structured approach to long-horizon wealth preservation and jurisdictional analysis.
The 2025 edition establishes the conceptual architecture and illustrative methodology of the Index — the foundation for the GWPI measurement system now being developed.
Beginning with the 2026 edition, GWPI is designed to progressively integrate validated data from the IMF, World Bank, and Bank for International Settlements (BIS) — strengthening the Index's transparency, reproducibility, data provenance, and auditability.
GWPI is complemented by the South-South Wealth Corridors (SSWC) framework, extending the analysis from individual jurisdictions to bilateral capital relationships among developing economies.
Together, GWPI and SSWC examine how economic conditions, institutional quality, capital flows, diversification, sustainability, and intergenerational transfer capacity shape the preservation of wealth over the long term.
Each pillar is normalized on a 0–10 scale using (Country Value − Minimum) / (Maximum − Minimum) × 10, then combined at 20% weight apiece into a single composite score.
Inflation control, fiscal discipline, and currency resilience over time.
Institutional strength, property rights, and regulatory predictability.
Economic breadth beyond single-sector dependency; productive capacity.
Estate, succession, and cross-border capital-transfer infrastructure.
ESG integration, transparency, and long-horizon capital stewardship.
Case studies from the 2025 edition, ranked by composite GWPI score.
Scores shown are illustrative — sample data used to demonstrate methodology in the 2025 edition. Full empirical integration of IMF, World Bank, and BIS datasets begins with the 2026 edition; figures here may not reflect official statistics.
The software system that operationalizes the GWPI methodology — built, not just designed.
Wealth Continuity Intelligence™ (WCI) ingests macro data directly from World Bank and IMF sources, scores jurisdictions and entities against the five-pillar framework, and — critically — publishes a full evidence trail for every score it produces: the raw data point, its source, and a SHA-256 hash proving it hasn't been altered after the fact.
An Outlier & Data Review Console means an anomalous data point is flagged for human review rather than silently moving a published score. This auditability, not the score itself, is the part built for institutional and regulatory scrutiny.
The platform is currently used internally for research and validation. Public and institutional access is planned as the global data population milestone is completed.
Every published score traces back to methodology version, raw source value, and a cryptographic hash — retrievable through a documented API, not just asserted in a PDF.
Institutional users, researchers, and reviewers can request early access or a walkthrough of the provenance layer.
Email David →Peer-accessible papers published on SSRN, forming the theoretical backbone of the Index.
A multi-pillar framework for assessing long-term national wealth stability — introducing the five-pillar GWPI model and illustrative country scoring.
A framework for long-term wealth preservation in emerging economies — introducing SSWCs and a five-pillar corridor model, with UAE–Zimbabwe case vignettes.
GWPI is raising to complete full global data population and institutional deployment of the Wealth Continuity Intelligence™ platform. An investor memorandum covering methodology, platform status, roadmap, and use of funds is available on request.
“Wealth isn’t built overnight — but it’s preserved by those who plan beyond today.”
Clear answers to the questions that matter most when evaluating the purpose, methodology, data discipline, credibility, and future development of the Global Wealth Preservation Index.
GWPI is a research framework for evaluating the long-term capacity of jurisdictions to preserve, diversify, and transfer wealth across generations. It focuses on structural conditions that can influence long-horizon wealth preservation rather than short-term market performance.
GWPI evaluates five dimensions: Economic Stability; Governance & Rule of Law; Diversification & Productivity; Transfer Readiness; and Ethical Finance & Sustainability. Together, these dimensions are intended to provide a broader view of the conditions supporting wealth continuity.
The five equally weighted pillars are Economic Stability; Governance & Rule of Law; Diversification & Productivity; Transfer Readiness; and Ethical Finance & Sustainability. Each pillar contributes 20% to the composite score.
Where an indicator is normalized on a 0–10 scale, the framework uses: (Country Value − Minimum) ÷ (Maximum − Minimum) × 10. Pillar scores are then aggregated using the framework's equal 20% weighting to produce the composite GWPI score.
A higher score indicates stronger measured conditions across the five GWPI dimensions. It should be interpreted as a comparative research measure, not as a guarantee of investment returns, future economic performance, or individual wealth outcomes.
GWPI is specifically oriented toward wealth preservation across generations. Its framework brings together economic resilience, institutions, productive diversification, intergenerational transfer capacity, and ethical sustainability rather than focusing on a single outcome such as competitiveness, growth, market returns, or current business conditions.
GWPI is designed to use credible, independently published macroeconomic, institutional, financial, and sustainability datasets. Planned and developing source integrations include institutions such as the World Bank, IMF, and BIS, alongside other validated sources where appropriate. Every production indicator should have a defined source, methodology, time reference, and validation status.
No. Illustrative scores may be used to demonstrate the framework and platform during development. A production GWPI score should only be presented as a measured Index result after its underlying indicators, sources, parameters, and evidence have been validated and documented.
The GWPI development approach emphasizes source provenance, retrieval dates, reliability assessment, staleness rules, reproducible ingestion, evidence coverage, and documented methodology parameters. The objective is to make each published score increasingly traceable and reproducible.
GWPI is intended to support family offices, institutional investors, sovereign allocators, policymakers, researchers, wealth advisers, and other decision-makers seeking a structured perspective on long-term jurisdictional wealth preservation.
South-South Wealth Corridors is a complementary research framework examining how capital and wealth-preservation relationships can develop between emerging and developing economies. It extends the GWPI perspective from individual jurisdictions toward cross-border capital, institutional, diversification, and long-term wealth relationships.
No. GWPI is a research and analytical framework. Its publications, scores, and observations are not personal investment, tax, legal, estate-planning, or financial advice. Users should conduct independent due diligence and obtain appropriate professional advice where necessary.
GWPI is being developed toward a more empirical, transparent, reproducible, and audit-ready research and scoring system. Future development includes validated data ingestion, source and data provenance, reproducible scoring, evidence coverage, and machine-readable score certificates that can document the methodology and data underlying a published result.
RESEARCH NOTE · GWPI methodology, data sources, parameters, and scores are subject to ongoing research, validation, refinement, and disclosure controls.