As exclusively revealed by this publication, research organisation Wealthmonitor shows how much wealth was generated by liquidity events in Western European companies and shows how beneficiaries around the world benefited.

The latest snapshot of liquidity events from initial public offerings and other liquidity events in Western Europe shows that a total of £2.898 billion ($3.294 billion) of wealth was created among UK owners in the first three months of this year, while Chinese beneficiaries of such events netted a total of £2.142 billion.

The data, exclusively presented to this publication by Wealthmonitor, the research firm tracking such trends, showed that there were 1,407 UK beneficiaries of such liquidity events in the first quarter, while there were 311 Chinese beneficiaries, 373 German beneficiaries, 105 Swedish beneficiaries, and 175 Italian beneficiaries.

In total, liquidity events in the first quarter of 2015 generated £10.85 billion, with 2,986 beneficiaries, the Wealthmonitor data showed.

In other countries, Spanish beneficiaries of liquidity events netted £862 million; French persons netted £231 million and Swiss beneficiaries of European liquidity events netted £192 million. Swiss beneficiaries drew in £158 million, the data showed.

Out of the top three sectors for liquidity events, which collectively produced £3,146 billion, the most active sector was “consumer other”, at £1,275 billion, the figures showed.