U.S. Millionaire Households Hit New High

Ultrahigh-net-worth households, with a net worth between $5 million and $25 million, reached 1.1 million, an increase of 85,000 since 2012.

The number of the wealthiest households, with a net worth of more than $25 million, hit 132,000 in 2013, up 15,000 from a year earlier.

"Most of the financial damage done by the recession has been erased by recent record-high markets in 2013 as well as continued rebound in the real estate markets," Spectrem Group president George Walper said in a statement. "In terms of the affluent investor, it is fair to say they have finally recovered from the economic downturn."

Sixty percent of investors with a net worth of $5 million or more intended to invest in equities in 2014, according to Spectrem, and 31% of investors with a net worth between $100,000 and $1 million intend to do so.

More than half of the $5 million-plus investors indicated they were willing to invest outside the U.S., with a growing number showing interest in China.

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