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Forbes (Forbes) is a monthly financial and economic magazine that covers the financial side of the activities of the richest and most successful people of our time, talks about the events of their lives, publishes their opinions on various situations and ideas for future development. Forbes is the first to report on innovations in business and investing.
Forbes magazine - This business magazine. Stories of successful projects and their products, stories of project failures and their causes, causes and consequences of high-profile events, the largest fees of show business stars and athletes, income and expenses, business tricks and PR tricks.
Forbes is the world's leading business magazine. The mission of the magazine is to provide readers with information that guarantees their success. The publication differs from many competitors in that it conducts bold investigations and is not afraid to call a spade a spade.
Forbes provides its readers with important information before others, when the information has the greatest economic value. Fresh perspectives for independent thinkers. Forbes helps its readers capitalize on their business and financial opportunities—before anyone else does.
Forbes magazine is a team of professional journalists and editors with excellent knowledge of various areas of the economy: from financial markets to the production of consumer goods, from the fuel and energy complex to high-tech business. Forbes has access to top company officials and receives information from the most knowledgeable sources.
The Russian edition of Forbes is leader in investments in brand promotion in the Russian press market. Every year, the Russian edition of Forbes confirms its status as the most cited and influential publication.
Forbes is a magazine that in recent years has become one of the most influential and cited publications in the world, as well as a world leader in the media industry in terms of the volume of advertising. There are currently no exact data regarding the turnover of Forbes Inc. Stephen Forbes does not disclose his income information. A few years ago, the corporation's president's fortune totaled $400 million (not taking into account the $1.4 billion inherited from his father). It is only known that the annual salary that Forbes pays himself is about $1.2 million.
The magazine's motto: "The Capitalist's Tool" - English. The Capitalist Tool.
All rights to carry out this activity belong to Forbes Incorporated (USA) since 1917. In addition to Forbes, the corporation owns Newsweek, Wall Paper, etc. The headquarters of Forbes Inc. located in New York, on Fifth Avenue.
History of Forbes magazine
Forbes Bertie Charles(English Bertie Charles Forbes; May 14, 1880, New Deer, Aberdeenshire - May 6, 1954) - founder of Forbes magazine, journalist.
Born into a large family of a Scottish tailor. He was the sixth among ten children. Bertie started working quite early: at the age of 14 he left school and got a job as a typesetter for 75 cents a week. And I got the job by mistake. I thought that he would immediately be entrusted with composing lyrics, which is what he always wanted. After 7 years, he trained as a stenographer (which was a prerequisite for reporters of that time) and became a journalist in one of the local newspapers. In 1904 Forbes left Scotland. First he headed to South Africa in an attempt to forget his ex-girlfriend, who had married someone else, and then went to the USA.
At first, he worked for various financial columnists, until the famous media tycoon William Hearst offered him a position in his magazine. Forbes soon made the public talk about himself, becoming famous as a powerful financial analyst who is not afraid to criticize famous and successful people.
In 1917, having saved some money, Forbes opened his own magazine. It is noteworthy that Bertie himself wanted to call it Doers and Doings (“Deeds and their makers”), but on the advice of friends he named it after himself.
Over the course of several years, Forbes has become one of the most read business publications in the United States. The truthfulness of the articles, harsh criticism and caustic attacks - this is what has always distinguished the magazine from other publications. The publication found itself in a difficult position only after the stock market crash of 1929, but even then Bertie refused to sell his brainchild, sometimes paying his journalists from his own fees for articles in other magazines.
After the death of Bertie Forbes, the magazine passed to his son, Malcolm Forbes, who sought to increase his father's fortune.
Under him, in the 1960s, Jim Michaels became editor-in-chief of the magazine. According to experts, modern business journalism was formed largely thanks to the editorial policy of Forbes during this period. Unlike rival publications that published flattering materials about business structures, Forbes sought to conduct journalistic investigations of the activities of entrepreneurs. By the end of the 1970s, Forbes was ranked number one among US business publications.
And in the 1990s, already under the founder’s grandson, Stephen Forbes
The magazine began to not only cover a wider range of topics, but also began to be published in Portuguese and Japanese. Russia became the fifth country in the world where Forbes began publishing its magazine. In 2004, a licensing agreement was concluded with Axel Springer Russia, and the first Russian issue of the magazine was published in the same year.
Every month Forbes writes about the activities of the largest entrepreneurs, innovations in the field of business and investment, publishes lists of the wealthiest people in Russia and other ratings. During its eight years on the Russian market, Forbes has become a leader in the business press segment, and the number of its readers has crossed the million mark.
Forbes magazine provides readers with stories of successful projects and their products, stories of project failures and their causes, the lives and activities of famous entrepreneurs, the causes and consequences of high-profile events, ratings of the richest people in the world, the largest fees of show business stars and athletes, income and expenses, business tricks and PR tricks.
Forbes is the world's leading business magazine. The magazine received recognition thanks to its bold investigations in the business world and objective assessments of events, as well as various lists and ratings published by it. Among them, the most famous is the list of the world's billionaires.
In the United States, Forbes is the second largest business magazine by audience, with a circulation of more than 900 thousand copies.
Each issue of the magazine contains more than 60 analytical articles about companies, their creators and managers. The total audience of Forbes and its international English-language edition is about 5 million people around the world. In addition, the magazine is published in local languages in Georgia, Poland, Russia, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Japan, Brazil, Korea and China. In Ukraine, the magazine is published in Russian.
Forbes first attempted to assess the wealth of leading businessmen in 1918, publishing a list of the 30 richest Americans. The leader of the first rating was John Rockefeller with a huge fortune of $1.2 billion at that time.
200 richest businessmen in Russia
Forbes ratings
At the beginning of the 20th century, various rankings of the wealthiest people in the United States often appeared in the American media; Forbes magazine began to practice this, which later received the laurels of being the first inventor of the method of constantly ranking the richest Americans. The first list, published by Forbes on March 2, 1918, included 30 names. The ranking was headed by John Rockefeller, whose fortune at that time was estimated at $1.2 billion (this amount is the equivalent of the current $14 billion).
10 Best Cities for Business - 2013
Billionaires ranking
Since 1986, the magazine began publishing a list of the world's billionaires, The World's Billionaires.
The first Russian millionaires (Boris Berezovsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Vladimir Potanin, Vladimir Gusinsky, Rem Vyakhirev, Vagit Alekperov) appeared on this list in 1997. In 1998, only Vladimir Potanin, who owned a fortune of $1.6 billion, remained in the Forbes ranking. Over the next two years, not a single Russian entrepreneur managed to get into this ranking, but already in 2001, eight Russians were on the Forbes list, including In 2002 - 7, in 2003 - 17, and in 2004 - 25. In 2005, billionaires from other CIS countries were included in the Forbes list for the first time.
In 2010, the world's top three billionaires included the family of 70-year-old Carlos Slim Helu ($53.5 billion, telecommunications, Mexico), 54-year-old Bill Gates ($53 billion, high-tech, USA) and 79-year-old Warren Buffett ($47 billion, investments and insurance, USA). Among the billionaires in 2010 there were 62 Russians, almost twice as many as in 2009. An event in 2010 was the absence of Boris Berezovsky from the ranking for the first time. Among the world's billionaires in 2011 there were already 99 Russians, approximately the same number in 2012 - 96.
Ranking of the richest Americans
Forbes 400
Since September 13, 1982, Forbes magazine has published a list of the four hundred richest Americans - Forbes 400, a ranking of the wealthiest US citizens in the modern sense.
It is no coincidence that the number “400” is included in the name of the list: the idea was borrowed from “Mrs. Astor’s List of 400” (Mrs. William Blackhouse Astor Jr. is known for hosting balls for the richest people in American society in her mansion on Fifth Avenue in the 1890s - her mansion accommodated no more than 400 people, hence the name).
Forbes 400 list of clubs
Since 1993, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has been recognized as the richest American: in 2009, his fortune was estimated at $50 billion, in 2010 at $54 billion, in 2011 at $59 billion, in 2012 at $66 billion. The ranking is updated in September of each year. .
10 richest sports club owners from Forbes ranking
The wealthiest investors in the sports industry included two Russians, as well as the former prime minister of Italy, the richest man in Ukraine and an opponent of Alisher Usmanov.
Buying sports clubs has long been considered a whim of billionaires. In recent years, the situation has changed: investments in the industry are increasingly based on clear business calculations. Sponsorship contracts, the sale of rights to television broadcasts, the construction of stadiums - all these articles attract more and more money into sports, and therefore owners of large fortunes.
This list includes only members of the Forbes rating who invest significant funds in projects valued at at least $100 million. The richest man on the planet, Carlos Slim, for example, has three football clubs in his portfolio of assets, but none of them generates revenue, tangible on the scale of the Mexican tycoon’s business empire.
Billionaires' favorite sport remains American football. 19 participants in the rating are investing in NFL teams. Next comes basketball, with 15 wealthy fans, football, baseball and hockey. The top five included:
Club: Mumbai Indians (cricket, Indian Premier League)
Net worth: $21.5 billion
Nationality: India
The 55-year-old founder and CEO of India's largest industrial conglomerate is deeply involved in one of Mumbai's most popular sports clubs. In 2011, the team won one of the most prestigious cricket tournaments - the Twenty20 Champions League.
Club: Shakhtar (football, Ukrainian Premier League)
Net worth: $15.4 billion
Citizenship: Ukraine
The richest man in Ukraine, ranked 47th in the Forbes world rankings, has been developing football infrastructure in his native Donetsk since the mid-1990s. Over the years, Shakhtar acquired its own modern stadium for 50,000 spectators (in 2012, the arena hosted the semi-finals of the European Football Championship), was the first Ukrainian club to win the UEFA Cup and took away the title of the most popular team in the country from Dynamo Kiev.
Paul Allen
Clubs: Seattle Seahawks (American football, NFL); Portland Trail Blazers (basketball, NBA)
Net worth: $15 billion
Citizenship: USA
Microsoft co-founder and renowned philanthropist Paul Allen is both an avid sports fan and a major investor in the industry. In addition to direct ownership of clubs in the NFL and NBA, the billionaire has a stake in the Seattle Sounders football team.
Club: Brooklyn Nets (basketball, NBA)
Net worth: $13 billion
Citizenship: Russia
The hero of the cover of the latest issue of American Forbes, thanks to generous investments in the NBA club, has become a recognizable public figure in the United States. Under Prokhorov, the Nets moved from New Jersey to New York to the state-of-the-art Barclays Center arena (Prokhorov also owns a stake in the sports facility), assembled a star-studded roster and became one of the most talked about projects in the league. The Russian billionaire promises to increase the capitalization of the club, for which he paid $200 million for control, to $1 billion by 2015.
Club: Chelsea (football, English Premier League)
Net worth: $10.2 billion
Citizenship: Russia
The former governor of Chukotka consistently won all possible trophies with the London club, first on the domestic stage, and last year on the European arena: Chelsea added to the collection of awards with the title of winner of the UEFA Champions League. Forbes calculated last year that the Russian owner spent about $1.3 billion on the team over 8 years, and ahead is the costly construction of a new stadium and the ongoing budget race, spurred on by generous football fans from the oil dynasties of the Middle East.
And also, less popular, but also contributed to the development of clubs:
Phil Anschutz
Clubs: Los Angeles Galaxy (soccer, MLS); Los Angeles Kings (hockey, NHL)
Net worth: $10 billion
Citizenship: USA
Silvio Berlusconi
Club: AC Milan (football, Italian Serie A)
Net worth: $6.2 billion
Citizenship: Italy
Marguerite Louis-Dreyfus
Club: Olympique Marseille (football, French Ligue 1)
Net worth: $6 billion
Citizenship: Switzerland
Charles Johnson
Club: San Francisco Giants (baseball, MLB)
Net worth: $5.7 billion
Citizenship: USA
Miki Arison
Club: Miami Heat (basketball, NBA)
Net worth: $5.7 billion
Sergey Brin (net worth $15.3 billion, 11th place), and in 2012 ($20.3 billion, 13th place)
Leonid Blavatnik ($5 billion, 44th place), in 2010 - 31st place, in 2012 - 25th place ($12.5 billion)
Igor Oleynikov ($1.5 billion, 236th place), in 2010 - 144th place, in 2012 - 190th place ($2.4 billion)
Evgeny Shvidler ($1 billion, 371st place), in 2012 - $1.25 billion, 359th place
And also Alexander Rovt (238th), in 2012 - $1.15 billion, 388th place and Alexander Knaster (356th), in 2012 - $1.4 billion, 328th place.
How the top ten of the Forbes rankings changed over ten years
Forbes magazine annually calculates the size of businessmen's fortunes. This year they additionally showed how the top ten of their ranking has changed recently.
From 2004 to 2013, 295 businessmen were included in the lists of the richest, 37 of whom were participants in all 10 ratings. Since 2004, the wealth of these 37 entrepreneurs has increased more than 3 times (86 billion - 273 billion). Over the same period, the RTS index (the main indicator of the Russian stock market) doubled. As we can see, the wealth of the rating participants grew on average 1.5 times faster than the market.
The first ranking of the richest Russians was called the “Golden Hundred” and was published in May 2004. Billionaires took 36 positions on the list, with Khodorkovsky at the top ($15.2 billion). The last of the 36 billionaires was Alisher Usmanov, whose wealth was exactly 1 billion. After 8 years, the owner of Metalloinvest and shareholder of Megafon is already in 1st position on the list, with a significant gap from the other participants in the rating. In 2013, Usmanov’s fortune was 17.6 billion.
The maximum wealth for all years of the rating was recorded in 2008 - Rusal shareholder Oleg Deripaska with $28.6 billion. The same year 2008 is notable for another record - the total wealth of all participants in the rating was $522 billion.
In 2011, the number of billionaire businessmen in Russia was already more than a hundred. Then, for the first time, a list of not 100, but 200 of the richest was compiled, but the overall wealth of the ranking participants never exceeded the 2008 threshold. In 2013, the total wealth of the rich was 488 billion, 417 billion accounted for by the top hundred participants. Since 2004, the number of billionaires has risen from 36 to 110 people.
Power and money - 2013. Income rating of federal officials
The list for monitoring income information did not include territorial divisions of federal authorities; a number of federal services that have not published declarations of their employees.
In our opinion, this indicator is more representative than the individual income of an official. Civil servants who do not have the right to conduct business, but remain businessmen, “transfer” their assets to their spouses, fulfilling the formal requirements of current legislation. But at any time these assets can be returned to their real owner.
Rating of the most expensive top managers
The leaders of the new Forbes rating are the heads of state-owned companies. We limited the study to the 70 largest enterprises by revenue for 2011, excluding state corporations and companies managed by owners (Lukoil, Severstal, Rusal). The top five are exclusively heads of state-owned companies.
The rating is headed by the President - Chairman of the Board of VTB Group Andrey Kostin. According to experts, he earns a total of about $30 million per year. The total remuneration of key VTB managers in 2011 also amounted to a record $194 million. According to Forbes interlocutors, Kostin, as well as most of the other CEOs on the list, receive the majority of his remuneration. most likely, it receives money abroad, in particular in Cyprus, where VTB has a subsidiary bank, Russian Commercial Bank (RCB). In 2011, the group’s managers received an additional $40 million from the Cypriot bank in the form of dividends alone.
Head of Gazprom Alexey Miller took second place in the ranking with an estimate of $25 million.
But the compensation of the head of Sberbank German Gref- $15 million - two times lower than Kostin. In 2011, Sberbank's net profit amounted to $10.75 billion. Consequently, Gref could additionally earn almost $8 million.
Head of Gazprom Neft Alexander Dyukov($8 million) and CEO of Aeroflot Vitaly Savelyev($2.5 million).
Four places in the top ten went to CEOs of private companies. Sixth - Dmitry Razumov($12 million, Onexim), eighth - Ivan Streshinsky($10 million, USM Holding), ninth - Vladimir Strzhalkovsky($10 million, Norilsk Nickel), tenth - Mikhail Shamolin($10 million, AFK Sistema). All these enterprises, by the way, belong to businessmen from the Forbes list. In the ranking of the highest paid CEOs, the only woman is the head of Basic Element. Gulzhan Moldazhanova($4 million, 23rd place).
Rating of the largest non-public companies in Russia for 2012
As the publication notes, the total turnover of 200 private companies increased by 27.5% and reached a record 10.2 trillion rubles. Growth was noted not only by large companies, but also by agricultural holdings, car dealers and many others.
Companies in the ranking are ranked based on revenue data for 2011. The list includes companies whose shares are not listed on the stock market. As the publication notes, the rating does not include banks, insurance, leasing, investment and other financial companies.
Thus, according to Forbes, the leader is the Kazan oil refining group TAIF - a diversified holding company based on petrochemicals and oil refining (39 companies, including Nizhnekamskneftekhim and Kazanorgsintez).
Moscow's largest construction contractor in Russia, Stroygazconsulting, took second place in the ranking. The company’s main customers are the structures of Gazprom, Transneft, Lukoil, and Rosavtodor, the publication notes.
Megapolis, a wholesaler of tobacco products in Russia, which has exclusive contracts with Japan Tobacco International, Philip Morris, and Imperial Tobacco, is ranked third in the ranking. Megapolis' sales network covers 150 thousand Russian retail outlets and 50 thousand Ukrainian ones.
The revenue of the company “Integrated Energy Systems” increased by 10%, which allowed IES to become fourth in the Forbes ranking.
Next are the largest producer of iron ore raw materials, Metalloinvest, the petrochemical company Sibur Holding, the construction company Stroygazmontazh, which gets Gazprom's main projects, as well as Russneft and Megafon.
5 main Russian celebrities - 2013
Forbes calculated the income of Russian celebrities
This year Forbes compiled the star rating for the tenth time. And even before all the calculations began - the creative income of celebrities for the year, the number of mentions in the media and queries in Yandex - it was possible to say with confidence who would be at the top of the list.
At the top of the list of fifty “most” in Russia was tennis player Maria Sharapova. According to Forbes, for the year (from June 2012 to May 2013) her income amounted to $29 million.
Singer Grigory Leps took second place, earning $15 million and great love from fans who often searched for him on Yandex.
Third place with an income of $16.5 million was taken by the artistic director of the Mariinsky Theater Valery Gergiev.
The fourth and fifth places remained unchanged from last year - Philip Kirkorov ($9.7 million) and hockey player Alexander Ovechkin ($16.8 million).
In places six to ten are singer Stas Mikhailov (he topped the rating for two years in a row), TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak, singer Nikolai Baskov, model Natalya Vodianova and Zenit St. Petersburg player Andrei Arshavin.
Forbes magazine also annually publishes other well-known lists, including:
Rating of the most influential women
The list is divided into seven categories: billionaires, business, lifestyle (entertainment and fashion), media, non-profit organizations, politics and technology. The methodology takes into account three main factors, the weight of which varies depending on the category: money, media presence and influence on the industry.
The 2013 list included nine heads of state, including the leader, German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The total GDP of the countries ruled by the ranking participants is $11.8 trillion. The 24 companies led by women on the Forbes list are approaching $900 billion in revenue.
10 participants have not left the list for all 10 years of its existence, among them TV personality Oprah Winfrey and former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Rating of the most expensive cars
Forbes looked at the models that will be available in the US market next year. For one reason or another, journalists “weeded out” McLaren and Spyker, but included Porsche, which will appear only in 2013. The leading positions in this list are occupied by:
Russian edition of Forbes magazine
Russia became the fifth country in the world where Forbes began publishing its magazine. The first Russian issue of the magazine was published in April 2004. The publisher of the magazine was Axel Springer Russia, a subsidiary of the German media holding Axel Springer AG. The owner of the trademark is Forbes Inc.
The monthly Russian Forbes writes about the activities of the largest entrepreneurs, innovations in the field of business and investment, publishes lists of the wealthiest people in Russia and other ratings.
Forbes informants are top managers of large companies, politicians, newsmakers, etc.
The audience of one issue of the publication, according to the data provided on the publisher’s website, is 769,600 people. The circulation of the magazine on Russian territory, according to TNS Russia, was 140 thousand copies from September 2008 to February 2009; The basic circulation of the main magazine in 2012, according to the publisher’s own data, is 100 thousand copies.
In 2004, Paul Klebnikov was appointed editor-in-chief of the magazine.
In May of the same year, Russian Forbes published a list of the 100 richest citizens of Russia. Khlebnikov was killed on July 9, 2004, not far from the Forbes editorial office in Moscow. From August 30, 2004 to March 2011, the editor-in-chief was Maxim Kashulinsky, from May 16, 2011 - Elizaveta Osetinskaya.
In the summer of 2007, the Rodionov Publishing House tried to acquire the publication. On November 9, 2009, the website of the Russian magazine Forbes was opened.
The Russian publication Forbes looked into the pockets of officials today and found out that, for example, the normal salary for the head of a department is now 300 thousand rubles. The same amount is now paid in the White House, because government employees were outraged when they learned about the salary increase in the Kremlin, which occurred immediately after Putin returned to the presidency. “The increase in salaries for administration employees produced the effect of a bomb exploding in the government. Since the summer, nothing else has been talked about in the White House except this injustice.” These words were spoken by Forbes' anonymous interlocutor...
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Forbes magazine estimated that there were 2,208 billionaires in the world in 2018, up from 2,043 in 2017. And the average wealth of these people is $4.1 billion, which is equivalent to or even greater than the GDP of some countries in the world. And collectively, all billionaires in the world are worth $9.1 trillion, up from $7.7 trillion in 2017.
According to the Forbes list, 67% (1490) of billionaires are so-called “self-made men”. That is, they did not inherit wealth, but earned it through their own labor.
Top 100 richest people in the world 2018 (Forbes)
| Place | Millionaire | State | Age | Source of income | A country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Jeff Bezos | $112 billion | 54 | Amazon | USA |
| #2 | Bill Gates | $90 billion | 62 | Microsoft | USA |
| #3 | Warren Buffett | $84 billion | 87 | Berkshire Hathaway | USA |
| #4 | Bernard Arnault | $72 billion | 69 | LVMH | France |
| #5 | Mark Zuckerberg | $71 billion | 33 | USA | |
| #6 | Amancio Ortega | $70 billion | 81 | Zara | Spain |
| #7 | Carlos Slim Helu | $67.1 billion | 78 | telecom | Mexico |
| #8 | Charles Koch | $60 billion | 82 | Koch Industries | USA |
| #8 | David Koch | $60 billion | 77 | Koch Industries | USA |
| #10 | Larry Ellison | $58.5 billion | 73 | software | USA |
| #11 | Michael Bloomberg | $50 billion | 76 | Bloomberg L.P. | USA |
| #12 | Larry Page | $48.8 billion | 44 | USA | |
| #13 | Sergey Brin | $47.5 billion | 44 | USA | |
| #14 | Jim Walton | $46.4 billion | 69 | Walmart | USA |
| #15 | S. Robson Walton | $46.2 billion | 73 | Walmart | USA |
| #16 | Alice Walton | $46 billion | 68 | Walmart | USA |
| #17 | Ma Huateng | $45.3 billion | 46 | internet media | China |
| #18 | Francoise Bettencourt Meyers | $42.2 billion | 64 | L'Oreal | France |
| #19 | Mukesh Ambani | $40.1 billion | 60 | petrochemicals, oil & gas | India |
| #20 | Jack Ma | $39 billion | 53 | e-commerce | China |
| #21 | Sheldon Adelson | $38.5 billion | 84 | casinos | USA |
| #22 | Steve Ballmer | $38.4 billion | 61 | Microsoft | USA |
| #23 | Li Ka-shing | $34.9 billion | 89 | diversified | Hong Kong |
| #24 | Hui Ka Yan | $30.3 billion | 59 | real estate | China |
| #24 | Lee Shau Kee | $30.3 billion | 90 | real estate | Hong Kong |
| #26 | Wang Jianlin | $30 billion | 63 | real estate | China |
| #27 | Beate Heister & Karl Albrecht Jr. | $29.8 billion | 66 | supermarkets | Germany |
| #28 | Phil Knight | $29.6 billion | 80 | Nike | USA |
| #29 | Jorge Paulo Lehmann | $27.4 billion | 78 | beer | Brazil |
| #30 | Francois Pinault | $27 billion | 81 | luxury goods | France |
| #31 | Georg Scheffler | $25.3 billion | 53 | auto parts | Germany |
| #32 | Susanne Klatten | $25 billion | 55 | BMW, pharmaceuticals | Germany |
| #32 | David Thomson | $25 billion | 60 | media | Canada |
| #34 | Jacqueline Mars | $23.6 billion | 78 | candy, pet food | USA |
| #34 | John Mars | $23.6 billion | 82 | candy, pet food | USA |
| #36 | Joseph Safra | $23.5 billion | 79 | banking | Brazil |
| #37 | Giovanni Ferrero | $23 billion | 53 | Nutella, chocolates | Italy |
| #37 | Dietrich Mateschitz | $23 billion | 73 | Red billion | Austria |
| #39 | Michael Dell | $22.7 billion | 53 | Dell computers | USA |
| #39 | Son of Masayoshi | $22.7 billion | 60 | internet, telecom | Japan |
| #41 | Serge Dassault | $22.6 billion | 92 | diversified | France |
| #42 | Stefan Quandt | $22 billion | 51 | BMW | Germany |
| #43 | Yang Huiyang | $21.9 billion | 36 | real estate | China |
| #44 | Paul Allen | $21.7 billion | 65 | Microsoft, investments | USA |
| #45 | Leonardo Del Vecchio | $21.2 billion | 82 | eyeglasses | Italy |
| #46 | Dieter Schwarz | $20.9 billion | 78 | retail | Germany |
| #47 | Thomas Peterffy | $20.3 billion | 73 | discount billionrokerage | USA |
| #48 | Theo Albrecht Jr. | $20.2 billion | 67 | Aldi, Trader Joe's | Germany |
| #48 | Len Blavatnik | $20.2 billion | 60 | diversified | USA |
| #50 | He Xiangjian | $20.1 billion | 75 | home appliances | China |
| #50 | Lui Che Woo | $20.1 billion | 88 | casinos | Hong Kong |
| #52 | James Simons | $20 billion | 79 | hedge funds | USA |
| #52 | Heinrich Sy | $20 billion | 93 | diversified | Philippines |
| #54 | Elon Musk | $19.9 billion | 46 | Tesla Motors | USA |
| #55 | Hinduja family | $19.5 billion | - | diversified | Great Britain |
| #55 | Tadashi Yanai | $19.5 billion | 69 | fashion retail | Japan |
| #57 | Vladimir Lisin | $19.1 billion | 61 | steel, transport | Russia |
| #58 | Artwork by Lauren Powell | $18.8 billion | 54 | Apple, Disney | USA |
| #58 | Azim Preji | $18.8 billion | 72 | software services | India |
| #60 | Alexey Mordashov | $18.7 billion | 52 | steel, investments | Russia |
| #61 | Lee Kun-Hee | $18.6 billion | 76 | Samsung | South Korea |
| #62 | Lakshmi Mittal | $18.5 billion | 67 | steel | India |
| #63 | Wang Wei | $18.2 billion | 48 | package delivery | China |
| #64 | Leonid Mikhelson | $18 billion | 62 | gas, chemicals | Russia |
| #65 | Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi | $17.9 billion | 73 | drinks, real estate | Thailand |
| #66 | Pallonji Mistry | $17.8 billion | 88 | construction | Ireland |
| #67 | Ray Dalio | $17.7 billion | 68 | hedge funds | USA |
| #68 | Takemitsu Takizaki | $17.5 billion | 72 | sensors | Japan |
| #69 | William Dean | $17.4 billion | 46 | online games | China |
| #69 | R. Budi Hartono | $17.4 billion | 77 | banking, tobacco | Indonesia |
| #69 | Gina Rinehart | $17.4 billion | 64 | mining | Australia |
| #72 | German Larrea Mota Velasco | $17.3 billion | 64 | mining | Mexico |
| #73 | Carl Icahn | $16.8 billion | 82 | investments | USA |
| #73 | Stefan Persson | $16.8 billion | 70 | H&M | Sweden |
| #75 | Michael Hartono | $16.7 billion | 78 | banking, tobacco | Indonesia |
| #75 | Joseph Lau | $16.7 billion | 66 | real estate | Hong Kong |
| #77 | Thomas and Raymond Kwok | $16.5 billion | - | real estate | Hong Kong |
| #78 | Vagit Alekperov | $16.4 billion | 67 | oil | Russia |
| #78 | James Ratcliffe | $16.4 billion | 65 | chemicals | Great Britain |
| #80 | Donald Bren | $16.3 billion | 85 | real estate | USA |
| #80 | Iris Fontbona | $16.3 billion | 75 | mining | Chile |
| #82 | Gennady Timchenko | $16 billion | 65 | oil, gas | Russia |
| #83 | Abigail Johnson | $15.9 billion | 56 | money management | USA |
| #83 | Vladimir Potanin | $15.9 billion | 57 | metals | Russia |
| #83 | Lucas Walton | $15.9 billion | 31 | Walmart | USA |
| #86 | Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken | $15.8 billion | 63 | Heineken | Netherlands |
| #87 | Zhang Zhidong | $15.6 billion | 46 | internet media | China |
| #88 | Peter Kelner | $15.5 billion | 53 | banking | Czech Republic |
| #88 | Andrey Melnichenko | $15.5 billion | 46 | coal, fertilizers | Russia |
| #88 | David and Simon Ruben | $15.5 billion | - | investments, real estate | Great Britain |
| #91 | Klaus-Michael Kuehne | $15.3 billion | 80 | shipping | Germany |
| #91 | Li Shufu | $15.3 billion | 54 | automobiles | China |
| #93 | Mikhail Fridman | $15.1 billion | 53 | oil, billionanking, telecom | Russia |
| #94 | Rupert Murdoch | $15 billion | 87 | newspapers, TV network | USA |
| #95 | Dhanin Chearavanont | $14.9 billion | 78 | diversified | Thailand |
| #96 | Robert Kuok | $14.8 billion | 94 | palm oil, shipping, property | Malaysia |
| #97 | Emmanuel Besnier | $14.7 billion | 47 | cheese | France |
| #98 | Shiv Nadar | $14.6 billion | 72 | software services | India |
| #99 | Victor Vekselberg | $14.4 billion | 60 | metals, energy | Russia |
| #100 | Aliko Dangote | $14.1 billion | 60 | cement, sugar, flour | Nigeria |
| #100 | Harold Hamm | $14.1 billion | 72 | oil & gas | USA |
We present to you the top 10 richest businessmen of 2018 from the list.
10. Larry Ellison
Net worth: $58.5 billion
The ranking opens with the ex-CEO of Oracle, which ranks second after Microsoft in the software market. Ellison left his position as CEO in 2014 after 38 years at the helm of the company. He is now the Chief Technology Officer.
His strategy to develop cloud technologies has brought Oracle shares up 18 percent over the past 12 months.
9. David Koch
Co-owner and executive vice president of multinational corporation Koch controls the second largest private company in the United States. Charles and David Koch bought shares of their brothers Frederick and William to gain control of their father's company.
It is known that the Koch company is engaged in the creation of consumer goods, chemical technologies, the production of fertilizers and polymers, and owns oil refineries and pipelines. And this is not a complete list of her interests.
David Koch escaped death twice. In 1991, he was the only survivor after the plane he was flying in crashed. He also won his battle against prostate cancer. He is a generous donor who has donated more than $1.2 billion to cancer research programs, educational programs and other charitable causes.
8. Charles Koch
Wealth: $60 billion
The 82-year-old businessman is the CEO of the Koch Corporation. It has more than one hundred thousand employees.
7. Carlos Slim Helu
Owns: $67.1 billion
Mexico's richest man controls America Movil, Latin America's largest mobile phone operator. In addition, Carlos Slim has interests in the mining industry, foreign telecommunications, construction, real estate, and a number of consumer goods companies. He also owns a 17% stake in The New York Times.
6. Amancio Ortega
Capital: $70 billion
The source of this Spanish billionaire's wealth is Zara Inditex, a Spanish fashion line. Ortega once worked as an errand boy at a local clothing store. And now he owns over 200 stores in 48 countries.
But even with all this money, Ortega maintains a modest lifestyle. He eats lunch in the same canteen where his employees eat.
5. Mark Zuckerberg
Net worth: $71 billion
This is not the first time that the Facebook founder and CEO is among the top five richest billionaires. His already fantastic wealth has grown by $15 billion in a year as Facebook's share price soars and investors scramble to buy a stake in the popular social network.
For all his billion-dollar capital, Mark Zuckerberg does not look like a classic “greedy capitalist.” He is one of the three. Together with his wife Priscilla, Mark donated $25 million to fight Ebola in 2015. In addition, the Zuckerbergs donated $100 million worth of stock to improve the public school system in New Jersey.
4. Bernard Arnault
Total earnings: $72 billion
Bernard is the founder of the LVMH consortium, which deals with luxury goods. It includes more than seventy luxury brands. All of them are controlled by the parent company Groupe Arnault.
3. Warren Buffett
Number of billions: $84 billion
Since Donald Trump became president, Warren Buffett has had one of the best times of his life. Thanks to Trump's tax reform, Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway investment fund received a record profit of $44.9 billion. Of this amount, 29 billion was received after the US Congress approved one of the largest tax cuts to the federal budget in the history of the country.
Warren is the most successful investor of all time and proudly holds the title of "Oracle of Omaha." At age eleven, he purchased three shares on the US stock market. They cost $38 each. Buffett later sold them, making a $5 profit on each share. A few days later, the price of these securities soared to $202. This first unsuccessful experience taught the future billionaire that he should not pursue short-term gain.
Now the 87-year-old businessman owns over 60 companies, including Dairy Queen, Duracell, Geico, and others.
2. Bill Gates
Net worth: $90 billion
The name of the “father” of Microsoft is unlikely to disappear from the list of the richest entrepreneurs anytime soon. Over the past 23 years, he has been named the king of billionaires 18 times. Today, the founder of Microsoft, the world's largest PC software company, is worth $90 billion. This is more than 4.7 times the state.
And, like many rich people in the West, Gates does not forget about charitable needs. His Gates Foundation has provided funds to improve the lives and health of children around the world.
1. Jeff Bezos
Wealth: $112 billion
Here he is, the richest man on Earth according to Forbes. Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon, the largest player in the e-commerce market.
Jeff Bezos was able to take a place at the top of the global “money pyramid” due to the sharp growth of his company’s shares. Over the year, their price increased by 59%, which increased Bezos’ fortune by $39.2 billion.
Billionaire best friends Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are two of the richest people in the world.
The world's richest 30 people control a huge chunk of the global economy: $1.23 trillion - more than the annual GDP of Spain, Mexico or Turkey.
That's according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which recently relaunched and expanded online to include 500 billionaires worldwide. The ranking is updated daily to provide the latest data on the richest men and women in the world.
And so the 30 richest people in the world:
30. Ma Huateng 
Net worth: $22.5 billion USA
Age: 45
Country: China
Industry: Technology
Source of Wealth: Tencent Holdings
Software engineer Ma Huateng (aka Pony Ma) founded China's largest Internet portal, Tencent Holdings, in 1998. He was 26 years old. Ma has a number of successful and widely used platforms, including QQ, its instant messaging service, which is one of the world's 10 largest sites; mobile text service (WeChat) with more than 800 million users; mobile commerce product (WeChat Wallet); and an online gaming community (Tencent Games), the largest in China.
Ma's wealth increased by $4.7 billion last year.
29. Phil Knight 
Net worth: US$25 billion
Age: 78
Country: USA
Source of wealth: Nike
He worked as an accountant for the sports shoe company Blue Ribbon Sports. Then he launched his own brand of sports shoes, Nike.
Nike's success has been fueled by collaborations with famous athletes, starting with runner Steve Prefontaine in 1973 and continuing with one of the most successful shoe marketers of all time, Michael Jordan, with whom Nike signed a five-year contract in 1984 worth $500,000 per year. Today, the NBA's biggest star is still affiliated with Nike, with LeBron James signing a lifetime deal with the brand in 2015, reportedly worth over $1 billion.
28. George Soros 
Net worth: $25.2 billion USA
Age: 86
Country: USA
Industry: Hedge funds
Source of Wealth: Managing the Soros Foundation
Born in Budapest, George Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary during World War II, then moved to the UK and then the US. Called “the man who broke the Bank of England,” he is best known for the hedge fund he created in 1973 under the management of Soros Fund Management. In 1992, he shortened the British pound, a risky move, that ended up making $1 billion in one day and cementing Soros' place in the financial world. The Quantum Fund has also generated annual returns of over 30% under Soros' leadership, making it one of the most successful hedge funds of all time.
Today, Soros remains chairman of Soros Fund Management, which manages more than $25 billion in assets, including stakes in such well-known companies as Amazon, Facebook and Netflix. He is also Chairman of Open Society, an organization founded in 1979 that operates as a network of foundations and partners around the world that promote the values of open societies and human rights.
Over the past year, Soros' wealth has dropped by $800 million.
27. Mukesh Ambani 
Net worth: $26.3 billion USA
Age: 59
Country: India
Industry: Petrochemicals, oil and gas
Source of wealth: Inheritance; Industries
Mukesh Ambani became chairman of Reliance Industries when his father, the company's founder, passed away in 2002. A huge industrial conglomerate in the fields of energy, petrochemicals, textiles, natural resources, retail and, most recently, telecommunications.
Ambani is the richest man in India and owns a 27-story mansion in Mumbai worth $1 billion.
26. Wang Wei
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Net worth: $26.5 billion USA
Age: 46
Country: China
Industry: Transport
Source of wealth: SF Holding
Wang Wei founded China's largest package delivery company, SF Express. He recently debuted on the stock exchange and made it onto the list of richest people for the first time. Over the past year, his wealth has increased by almost $22.7 billion. USA.
The son of a Russian People's Liberation Army Air Force translator, Wang grew up in Hong Kong and then returned to his birthplace of China in the 1990s to start a delivery service, Bloomberg said. At the time, his business was considered part of the "black delivery" market, and he risked being caught and fined by the country's postal officers.
25. Steve Ballmer 
Net worth: US$27 billion
Age: 60
Country: USA
Industry: Technology
Source of wealth: ; Microsoft
Steve Ballmer left business school at Stanford in 1980 to join Harvard friend Bill Gates at Microsoft as the company's first business manager, receiving a $50,000 salary and a stake in the company. Ballmer served as vice president of marketing, vice president of systems software, and executive vice president of sales and support, and was often referred to as the "numbers guy."
He became the company's CEO in 2000 after Gates stepped down, and he remained in charge of the software giant until Satya Nadella replaced him in 2014. Under Microsoft's leadership, the company's revenue grew by 294% and profits by 181% - although its market share was surpassed by Google and Apple during the same period.
After he took over as CEO, Ballmer fulfilled his dream of acquiring an NBA franchise by paying $2 billion in a deal to buy the Los Angeles Clippers, now his primary venture.
Last year, Ballmer's net worth increased by $4.8 billion.
24. Sheldon Adelson 
Net worth: US$28 billion
Age: 83
Country: USA
Industry: Real estate
Source of wealth: Las Vegas casinos
"The King of Las Vegas" first hit the jackpot in 1995, when he turned 61, at the Computer Dealers Show (COMDEX), one of the largest trade shows in Las Vegas. This year, Adelson sold the company to Japan's Softbank for $860 million and used the money to finance the purchase of Sands Casino. He quickly demolished it and in its place built the Venetian Casino Resort and the Sands Expo Convention Center. After further expansion, he took over his gaming conglomerate, Las Vegas Sands, which opened in 2004 .
Adelson, a former reporter and mortgage broker and the son of Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants, was hit hard during the financial crisis in 2008, reportedly losing $25 billion, and needed to boost his company's balance sheet with $1 billion in cash. Although the casino had a rough 2015 - shares fell 25% during the year - its fortunes have recovered from the dark days of 2008. Net worth increased by $3.2 billion last year. He still runs the casino and is CEO of China Sands, a subsidiary that opened its fifth casino in Macau last year.
In late 2015, he bought Nevada's largest newspaper for $140 million.
23. Jorge Lehmann 
Net worth: $28.8 billion USA
Age: 76
Country: Brazil
Source of wealth: 3G Capital
Dubbed "the world's most interesting billionaire" by Bloomberg, Jorge Lehmann was previously a journalist and professional tennis champion before moving into finance in 1971 with the purchase of a small Brazilian brokerage firm. He later went on to start a joint investment company, 3G Capital, in 2004, which made Lehmann best known for Warren Buffett's deals.
In late 2014, Lehmann created the fast food giant with the help of Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, combining Burger King with Canadian brand Tim Hortons in a series of deals valued at more than $11 billion. In 2015, 3G and Berkshire Hathaway teamed up again to invest $10 billion in the Kraft and Heinz megagerm, which created the fifth-largest food and beverage company in the world.
In November 2015, 3G's Anheuser-Busch InBev pulled off a mammoth $108 billion deal to take over SABMiller, becoming the world's most dominant beer maker. Earlier this year, he initiated a takeover deal - Unilever - a deal that was worth about $250 billion.
Over the past year, his net worth has increased by $2.9 billion. USA.
22. Li Ka-shing 
Net worth: $30.6 billion USA
Age: 88
Country: Hong Kong
Industry: Diversified investments
Source of Wealth: CK Hutchison Holdings
Despite humble beginnings, business tycoon Li Ka-shing became the richest man in Hong Kong. After his father died of tuberculosis, Lee abandoned school at 16 to support his family by working in a factory making plastic flowers. Six years later he opened his own factory, the predecessor of which is today known as CK Hutchison Holdings, a vast trading empire with interests in real estate, manufacturing, energy, telecommunications and technology.
A savvy investor, Lee and his venture capital fund Horizon Ventures have backed companies including Facebook, Skype, Spotify and the Hampton Creek egg replacement product launch.
Lee's net worth increased by $4.1 billion. USA over the past year.
21. Wang Jianlin 
Net worth: $31.6 billion USA
Age: 62
Country: China
Industry: Real estate
Source of Wealth: Dalian Wanda Group
Real estate tycoon Wang Jianlin, who served in the Chinese military from 1970 to 1986 before going into business, controls dozens of sectors and hundreds of companies. Some of Wang's largest investments are overseas, including high-profile property development projects in Sydney and Madrid. Since this time last year, his wealth has grown by $4.8 billion.
From 2014 to 2015, his wealth more than doubled from $13.2 billion to $30 billion.
19. and 20. John and Jacqueline Mars 
John Mars owns the world of Mars candy with siblings Forrest and Jacqueline.
Net worth: $32.4 billion USA each
Age: 77 and 81
Country: USA
Industry: Candy
Source of wealth: Inheritance; Mars Inc.
Siblings Jacqueline and John Mars inherited a stake in the iconic Candymaker Mars Inc. when their father, Forrest Sr., died in 1999.
In 2008, Mars expanded and now produces not only candies, but also chewing gum and animal food.
Over the past year, their combined net worth has grown by $2.6 billion.
18. Alice Walton 
Net worth: $34 billion USA
Age: 67
Country: USA
Industry: retail
The daughter of late Walmart founder Sam Walton, Alice Walton is a major figure at the company, making her the richest woman on earth. Although she was never actively involved in running the supermarket.
Instead of spending his time at Walmart, Walton became a patron of the arts. In 2011, she opened the $50 million Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas, which displays a number of her famous paintings.
In 2015, Walton donated 3.7 million of his Walmart shares to the family's nonprofit and put its Texas ranches—one a working horse ranch and the other a luxury vacation retreat—on the market for a total of $48 million.
Over the past year, her net worth has increased by $2.3 billion.
17. Jim Walton 
Net worth: $35.1 billion USA
Age: 68
Country: USA
Industry: retail
Source of wealth: Inheritance; Walmart
James "Jim" Walton's parents, Helen and Sam Walton, purchased a majority interest in Arkansas Bank in Bentonville a year before the first Walmart store opened in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962, when Jim was just 14 years old. Within five years, the family owned 24 retail stores. In 1975, after working in Walmart's real estate department for several years, Jim joined his parent bank, which later became Arvest Bank Group. He is now chairman and CEO of a regional community bank that has $15 billion in assets. Over the past year, Walton has grown by $2.7 billion.
16. Rob Walton 
Net worth: $35.4 billion USA
Age: 72
Country: USA
Industry: retail
Source of wealth: Inheritance; Walmart
Samuel Robson "Rob" Walton is the eldest son of Walmart founder Sam Walton. In 1969, he began working for the iconic trading giant, holding positions ranging from senior vice president to general counsel to the chairman, from which he retired in June 2015 after 23 years. His son-in-law succeeded him.
On New Year's Eve, Walton and his brother donated 1.5 million shares to charity, and their sister Alice gave away 3.7 million shares, for a total of $407 million. This is an incredible amount!
His wealth increased by $3.3 billion last year.
15. Jack Ma 
Net worth: $35.7 billion USA
Age: 52
Country: China
Industry: Technology
Source of wealth: Alibaba
China's richest man, Alibaba founder and executive chairman Jack Ma, reportedly started China's first internet company in 1988: China Yellowpages. He transferred control of that company to a state-owned telecommunications enterprise in 1996 and launched Alibaba three years later for just $60,000. Fifteen years after its creation, the company became the largest in the world.
But the company's shares fell 22% in 2015, most likely due to China's slowing economy and problems with counterfeiters using the company's platform. Ma wasn't worried. He acknowledged that 2016 would be a difficult year for the Chinese economy, but remained confident in Alibaba's long-term success.
Over the past year, Ma's wealth increased by $8.4 billion. USA.
14. Liliana Bettencourt 
Net worth: $36.8 billion USA
Age: 94
Country: France
Industry: Cosmetics
Source of wealth: Inheritance; L'Oreal Group
Heiress to the L'Oreal cosmetics fortune and the company's largest shareholder, Liliane Bettencourt is the richest woman in the world, with a net worth of $368 billion, an increase of $3 billion last year alone. She no longer has a hand in business operations, but L'Oreal and the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation, which she founded with her late husband, continue to thrive. She is an art collector, owning works by Picasso, Matisse and Munch.
In recent years, Bettencourt has been forced to take legal action, in May 2015, when eight people, including trusted friends and financial advisers, were convicted of using the heiress' capital.
In late 2015, charges were brought against her former butler and five journalists for recording meetings with the billionaire and thus violating her right to privacy. The butler, Pascal Bonnefoy, claimed he made the recordings to show Betancourt's fragile state - all six were acquitted in January 2016.
13. Bernard Arnault 
Net worth: US$40 billion
Age: 67
Country: France
Industry: Luxury goods
Source of wealth: LVMH
Bernard Arnault's LVMH has 70 luxury brands from Louis Vuitton to Hennessy to Dom Perignon, controlled by family company Groupe Arnault. By the 1980s and 90s, Arnault, having started working as a civil engineer, took over the family business and proceeded to buy the luxury fashion house Christian Dior, reviving it from the brink of bankruptcy. Like most LVMH brands today, Dior is thriving.
Last year, Arnault's wealth grew by $6.8 billion. USA.
12. Sergey Brin 
Net worth: $41.6 billion USA
Age: 43
Country: USA
Industry: Technology
Source of Wealth: Google
Along with co-founder Larry Page, Sergey Brin helped orchestrate the massive restructuring of Google that the company announced in 2015. The move brought Google under the umbrella of the Alphabet holding company, with Brin as president and Page as CEO. Other Google businesses, such as Nest and Google X, are separate companies also under Alphabet.
The restructuring allowed Brin to focus on exploring new projects and moonshot ideas. With top-notch talent and an abundance of resources, Alphabet has already made automated homes and self-driving cars a reality.
Brin, who emigrated from Moscow to the US as a child, was linked to Page in 1995 at Stanford, where they were each pursuing Ph.D. Three years later they founded Google, now one of the most powerful companies on the planet.
Over the past year, Brin's wealth has increased by $4.1 billion.
11. Larry Page 
Net worth: $42.5 billion USA
Age: 43
Country: USA
Industry: Technology
Source of Wealth: Google
As a student at Stanford University in 1998, Larry Page teamed up with fellow student Sergey Brin to create BackRub, an early search engine. The project eventually became Google - now called Alphabet - one of the largest companies in the world, worth more than $581 billion. Over the past year, the company's personal net worth increased by $4.3 billion.
10. Ingvar Kamprad 
Net worth: $43 billion USA
Age: 90
Country: Sweden
Industry: retail
Source of wealth: IKEA
At 17, Ingvar Kamprad founded IKEA, now the world's largest furniture store with revenues of almost 34.2 billion euros ($36 billion). Kamprad's plan from the beginning was to create an "eternal life" for IKEA, which meant keeping it on the stock market and securing it within a complex corporate structure involving charitable work both trade and franchise, collectively known as the Stichting INGKA Foundation. The Swedish business tycoon is no longer involved in day-to-day decision-making processes, but still attends meetings as a senior advisor to the supervisory board.
Among his peers, the 90-year-old founder is incredibly modest, despite his enormous wealth. He has reportedly been flying economy flights, staying in cheap hotels and driving the same Volvo for more than two decades. He also infamously moved IKEA and his family out of Sweden in the 1970s to escape its onerous tax rates. He returned to live in his home country in 2013 after a long period in Switzerland.
Kamprad donated $300 million to charity in his lifetime.
Last year, Kamprad's personal wealth increased by $2.6 billion.
9. Larry Ellison 
Net worth: $45.3 billion USA
Age: 72
Country: USA
Industry: Technology
Source of Wealth: Oracle Corp
In 1977, Larry Ellison teamed up with two colleagues from an electronics company to start their own programming firm, which soon signed a contract to create a relational database management system for the CIA under Project Oracle code. The project grew to what is now known as Oracle Corp., which generated $37 billion in revenue last year. In 2010, Ellison cut his annual salary from $1 million to $1, but he still receives more than $60 million in compensation through generous stock awards. Ellison stepped down as CEO in 2014 after 38 years and took on the role of chief technology officer.
The tech mogul is also a generous philanthropist, donating money to environmental causes and medical research.
Ellison's wealth increased by $5.2 billion last year.
7. TIE: David Koch 
Age: 76
Country: USA
Industry: Diversified investments
Along with his brother Charles, David Koch runs Koch Industries and is executive vice president. The second-largest private company, $100 billion (in sales), Koch Industries makes everything from fertilizer and Dixie Cups to asphalt and biodiesel. David's personal wealth dropped by $1.2 billion last year.
High-profile conservatives, the brothers also maintain enormous political influence and regularly spend hundreds of millions on political campaigns along with their vast network of donors.
David had two brushes with death. He survived the 1991 plane crash that killed everyone else in first class and also won his battle with prostate cancer. He has become one of the world's most generous philanthropists since then, donating more than $1.2 billion to medical causes.
7. TIE: Charles Koch 
Net worth: $47.9 billion USA
Age: 81
Country: USA
Industry: Diversified investments
Source of Wealth: Koch Industries
Charles Koch is the chairman and CEO of the diversified conglomerate Koch Industries, the second largest private company in America. His younger brother David is executive vice president. The company employs 120,000 people and generates $100 billion in annual revenue each year from its diverse holdings, which make everything from petrochemicals and Dixie cups to clothing materials.
The Koch brothers, with a total net worth of $95.8 billion. The United States, a world leader in conservative politics and public policy, advocates for smaller government and regularly funds political campaigns.
6. Carlos Slim Helu 
Net worth: $50.7 billion USA
Age: 77
Gender: Male
Industry: Telecom
Source of wealth: Grupo Carso
The richest man in Mexico owns more than 200 companies in his country through a conglomerate called Grupo Carso - also known as Slimlandia. The son of Lebanese-Mexican entrepreneurs, Carlos Slim Helu, gained control of his father's retail and real estate businesses after his death. After earning a degree in civil engineering, Slim built a diversified portfolio during the 1960s, 70s and 80s that now dominates Mexico's economy.
Grupo Carso acquired the state-owned telephone company Telmex, which now owns 80% of telephone lines in Mexico. In 2008, Slim bought a 6.4% stake in The New York Times for $127 million. He has since increased his ownership stake to 17%, worth about $391 million, thanks to the revival of The Times.
Slim still has ambitions to grow his empire, which includes interests in the financial, industrial, telecommunications and media sectors, especially in his home country, where he invested $4 billion in 2015. However, over the past year, his net worth has decreased by $1 billion.
5. Mark Zuckerberg 
Net worth: $58.5 billion USA
Age: 32
Country: USA
Industry: Technology
Source of wealth: facebook
In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg, a 19-year-old sophomore at Harvard, launched TheFacebook.com, a rudimentary version of the now ubiquitous social network known as Facebook. Zuckerberg dropped out of college to work full-time as CEO of Facebook, and the site quickly became popular. Today it attracts more than a billion users daily and is worth almost $400 billion. At 32, Zuckerberg is the youngest of the world's 50 richest people. His wealth increased by $11.1 billion. USA last year.
In December 2015, Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan pledged to give away 99% of their wealth during their lifetime through an organization called the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, although some critics have noted that the organization itself is not a nonprofit charity.
But this is not the couple's first step into philanthropy. They donated $25 million to the fight against Ebola in 2015, and they pledged $100 million in Facebook stock to improve New Jersey's public school system.
4. Amancio Ortega 
Net worth: $68.5 billion USA
Age: 80
Country: Spain
Industry: retail
Source of wealth: Inditex
Amancio Ortega is the fourth richest man in the world thanks to his control of Spanish fashion giant Inditex, where Ortega started working as a delivery boy at a local clothing store at age 14 and built it from a small-town clothing store into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet. However, Ortega's wealth dropped by $800 million last year.
Despite Ortega's enormous wealth, he lives modestly. The billionaire still eats lunch with his employees in the company cafeteria, and although he is the richest man in the fashion industry, he keeps it simple in a white shirt and blue blazer.
3. Jeff Bezos 
Net worth: $73.1 billion USA
Age: 53
Country: USA
Industry: Technology
Source of wealth: amazon.com
Jeff Bezos made his enormous fortune by introducing e-commerce to the world. After spending time in finance on Wall Street, Bezos founded Amazon.com in the garage of his Seattle home in 1994, selling books exclusively. The company opened to the public three years later, and has since sold everything from furniture to food to Amazon's own electronics, which generated $136 billion in revenue in 2016.
Bezos also has interests outside of Amazon, including investments in private space company Blue Origin, which successfully launched its first spacecraft in 2015, and The Washington Post, a newspaper he bought in 2013.
Last year, Bezos' wealth increased by $21.9 billion.
2. Warren Buffett 
Net worth: $77.2 billion USA
Age: 86
Country: USA
Industry: Diversified investments
Source of Wealth: Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett began his amazing investing career at a young age. As a child, he delivered newspapers on his bicycle, and by age 11, the Nebraska native bought his first stock on the stock market—Cities Service Preferred at $38 a share—and sold it for a $5 profit. He was not accepted into Harvard Business School, so Buffett went to Columbia Business School and studied there. Buffett worked as a securities analyst in the early 1950s before starting his own investment firm. He bought the textile company Berkshire Hathaway in 1969, turning it into a holding company.
The investments that made him rich may seem random - he bet on companies: Coca-Cola, American Express, Geico, Fruit of the Loom, Dairy Queen and General Motors, all of which generate cash that has long-term value. Last year, his capital increased by $13.1 billion. USA.
A frugal man with a love of unhealthy food, Buffett has donated more than $25 billion to charity. He is well acquainted with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, with whom he collaborated to create "The Promise Maker," a pledge by billionaires to give at least half of their wealth to charity.
1. Bill Gates 
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett speak with journalist Charlie Rose at an event hosted by Columbia Business School on January 27, 2017 in New York City.
Net worth: $85.2 billion USA
Age: 61
Country: USA
Industry: Technology
Source of Wealth: Microsoft
In just 20 years, Bill Gates founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. A few months before his 31st birthday, the company took off, making Gates a billionaire. He was the software's CEO until 2000 and was its chairman and largest shareholder until 2014. Although he is still with the company, Gates is no longer actively involved with Microsoft.
Gates is not only the richest man in the world - his net worth increased by $10.6 billion in the last year alone - but he is also the most generous. Since 1999, Gates and his wife have led the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the most influential philanthropic foundations in the world. The fund, which controls more than $40 billion, aims to lift millions of people out of poverty, with a special focus on eliminating HIV, malaria and other infectious diseases. The pair are also working on a plan to mobilize mobile banking for the 2 billion adults who don't have a bank account.
He is also the co-founder of the Giving Pledge, which he started in 2010 with good friend and fellow billionaire Warren Buffett as a pledge to donate 50% or more of his fortune. Currently, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are among the 156 members of the Giving Pledge.
The American magazine Forbes traditionally announced the list of the richest people in the world based on the results of the past year. The 32nd annual world ranking, published on March 6, 2018, included 2,208 people from 72 countries around the globe, each of whom owns a fortune of at least $1,000,000,000. At the same time, the total income of billionaires from all over planet Earth increased by 18% compared to last year and amounted to $9.1 trillion. We invite you to familiarize yourself with this year’s list and the types of activities to which billionaires owe their capital.
The top ten absolute world leaders in terms of wealth earned included businessmen, software developers, representatives of the fashion industry, publishing, media and the mobile communications market.
The top ten people on Forbes' 2018 list of the world's richest people are:
- Jeff Bezos ($112 billion) topped the 2018 Forbes Billionaires List for the first time and became the world's richest person. The rapid rise in price of shares of his brainchild Amazon by 59% allowed 53-year-old Bezos to add $39,200,000,000 to his net worth compared to last year.
Interesting! Jeff Bezos managed not only to top the list of the world's richest people in 2018, but also to become the first billionaire whose fortune is estimated at 12 figures.
- Bill Gates ($90 billion) ranks 2nd on the Forbes list. Despite the fact that Microsoft brought him fame and the bulk of his fortune, today Gates's stake in the company does not exceed 3%. Now he makes money mainly from a mechanical engineering company, an investment fund and a number of other sources.
- Warren Buffett ($84 billion) is in 3rd place in the 2018 top richest people. The 87-year-old billionaire's income throughout his life comes from the investment holding Berkshire Hathaway, which owns various shares of shares in more than 60 companies.
- Bernard Arnault ($72 billion) was able to get to 4th place in the Forbes top and increase his wealth by $30,500,000,000 (while in 2017 he was only in the second ten). The 69-year-old Frenchman is the sole owner of the LVMH Moët Hennessy holding, which represents luxury brands Louis Vuitton, Sephora, Christian Dior (since 2017), etc.
- Amancio Ortega ($70 billion) is the founder of the Inditex holding, which includes the famous brands Zara, Bershka, Massimo Dutti, etc., and is the 6th billionaire in the world. The 80-year-old Spaniard also buys real estate in prestigious locations in Europe and America and receives substantial dividends from its resale or rental.
- Carlos Slim Helu ($67.1 billion) is seventh on the Forbes world list of billionaires. The Mexican is the owner of the mobile operator America Movil, as well as a co-owner of the New York Times newspaper and a number of real estate and mining companies.
- Charles Koch ($60 billion) is on the eighth line of the Forbes 2018 top list. Together with his brother, he is the owner of the Koch Industries holding. The latter's history began in 1940, when their father founded an oil refinery.
- David Koch ($60 billion) is the second co-owner of Koch Industries, who, thanks to the decision to buy out the Times publishing house, managed to add $11,700,000,000 to his capital and take 9th place in the ranking of world billionaires.
- Larry Ellison ($58.5 billion), an American ranked 10th on the Forbes list, is the founder of the IT company Oracle, which has recently been developing cloud services. Ellison also actively invests in her favorite pastime, sailing, and spares no expense for charitable causes.
The richest people in Russia in 2018
Among the world's richest people in the 2018 Forbes list, 102 people from Russia were noted, whose total wealth was estimated at $410,800,000,000. Most of them earned their fortune in the oil and gas sector or in other commodity markets. So, the ten richest representatives of the Forbes list from Russia:
- Vladimir Lisin ($19.1 billion) is the richest person in Russia in 2018 and is on the 57th line of the Forbes global ranking. Lisin holds the position of Chairman and is the main owner of shares in NLMK (steel sector) and Universal Cargo Logistics Holding.
On a note! Vladimir Lisin holds the position of vice president of the International Shooting Sports Organization. It was thanks to him that the largest shooting complex in Europe, “Fox Hole,” appeared in the Moscow region.
- Alexey Mordashov ($18.7 billion) is the second (as last time) place among the richest Russians and 60th place in the world top. The capital of the co-owner of Severstal, tour operator TUI and gold mining company Nord Gold N.V increased by $1,200,000,000.
- Leonid Mikhelson ($18 billion), the winner of last year’s Russian Forbes rating, dropped to 3rd place in 2018 (64th place in the Forbes top). The fortune of the co-owner of the chemical holding Sibur and the largest private gas production company Novatek decreased by $400,000,000.
- Vladimir Potanin ($15.9 billion) – ranks 6th and 83rd in the Forbes lists of Russia and the world, respectively. Possession of shares in the Norilsk Nickel company, the Petrovax Pharm concern and the most famous ski resort in Russia, Rosa Khutor, brought Potanin an additional $1,600,000,000.
- Andrey Melnichenko ($15.5 billion) - the main owner of Eurochem, the companies SGK (energy) and SUEK (coal mining) in 2018, ranks 7th in the Russian and 88th place in the international list of billionaires according to Forbes 2018 .
- Mikhail Fridman ($15.1 billion) – an increase in his own finances by $700,000,000 allowed the founder of Alfa Bank, co-owner of Alfa Group and LetterOne to be ranked 8th on the Forbes 2018 list.
- Viktor Vekselberg ($14.4 billion) – ranks 9th among the richest people in Russia (89th in the world). The lion's share of his income now comes from the Suzler company from Switzerland (which produces pumping equipment). In addition to her, Vekselberg also receives income from the activities of the Renova Group of Companies, of which he is the founder.
Interesting! Viktor Vekselberg’s private collection contains famous works of art, including 9 Faberge eggs; he paid the Forbes family about $100,000,000 for the acquisition.
- Alisher Usmanov ($12.5 billion) closes the top 10 richest people in Russia according to Forbes 2018 and ranks 118 in the world top. Having started a business with the production of polyethylene products during the Soviet era, today Usmanov is a co-owner of the Metalloinvest holding, Megafon, Mail.ru Group, Arsenal FC and a stake in Xiaomi.
1. Bill Gates
State:$86 billion
Change over the year:+ $11 billion
Status source: Microsoft
Age: 61
A country: USA
Bill Gates became the richest person in the world, according to Forbes, for the fourth year in a row and 18 times in the last 23 years. More than 40 years ago, Gates and Paul Allen created the world's largest software manufacturer, Microsoft Corporation. Gates now owns almost 3% of his company, which is only 13% of his fortune.
Gates' other investments include investments in the Canadian National Railway, the American engineering company Deere & Co., the waste management company Republic Services, and the auto dealer AutoNation. In 2016, Gates, along with a team of investors including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, created the $1 billion Breakthrough Energy investment fund.
One of the billionaire's priorities is the Bill and Melinda Gates Charitable Foundation. Its main goal is to improve the healthcare system and overcome hunger in poor countries.
2. Warren Buffett
State:$75.6 billion
Change over the year:+ $14.8 billion
Status source: Berkshire Hathaway
Age: 86
A country: USA
In 2016, the world's wealthiest and most famous investor became almost $15 billion richer, which helped him return to second place in the Forbes ranking, displacing Zara owner Amancio Ortega. Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett's holding company, owns stakes in more than 60 companies, including Geico, Dairy Queen and Fruit of the Loom, among others. The billionaire invests in Wells Fargo, IBM and Coca-Cola.
Warren made his first investment at age 11. With money he borrowed from his father, he bought three shares of Cities Service Preferred stock, then sold them at a higher price. True, shares bought for $38 and sold for $40 later soared to $200. Life, Buffett believes, already taught him his first lesson in investing - patience is rewarded.
Buffett and Bill Gates, with whom he likes to play bridge, founded The Giving Pledge, a philanthropic campaign in which billionaires pledge to give at least 50% of their wealth to charity. Buffett himself is going to give 99%. He has already donated $28.5 billion.
3. Jeff Bezos
State:$72.8 billion
Change over the year:+ $27.6 billion
Status source: Amazon.com
Age: 53
A country: USA
Jeff Bezos has been luckier than anyone this year. Shares of the company he created, Amazon, rose by 67%, adding almost $28 billion to his fortune. The growth of the online retailer's capitalization allowed Bezos to take third place in the ranking of the richest people on the planet for the first time. In particular, Bezos has replaced Mexico's richest man, Carlos Slim Helu, and Zara owner Amancio Ortega on the Forbes list.
Before starting his own business, Bezos worked at a hedge fund, where he left in 1994 for a simple idea - selling books online. Thus Amazon was born.
In recent years, the billionaire's main passion has been space travel. His aerospace company Blue Origin is developing reusable rockets that Bezos says will carry passengers. In November 2015, Blue Origin successfully conducted a controlled landing of the reusable BE-3 rocket. Bezos’ unusual hobby is also connected with space: together with a team of “underwater archaeologists,” he retrieves parts of NASA spacecraft from the seabed.
5. Mark Zuckerberg
State:$56 billion
Change over the year:+ $11.4 billion
status source: Facebook
Age: 32
A country: USA
Mark Zuckerberg founded the social network Facebook in 2004, when he was 19 years old. For the sake of Facebook, Zuckerberg left the prestigious Harvard, but it was the social network that made him a billionaire. Last year was a particularly successful year for Zuckerberg, just like the previous one: rising share prices for his company brought him an additional $11.4 billion.
Zuckerberg takes an active part in managing the social network. He initiated transactions to acquire the social network Instagram, the WhatsApp messenger and the developer of virtual reality helmets Oculus VR.
In 2015, Mark and his wife Priscilla Chan became parents for the first time. The happy couple promised to give 99% of their stake in Facebook to charity. In 2017, the couple announced that they were expecting a second child.
6. Carlos Slim Helu
State:$54.5 billion
Change over the year:+ $4.5 billion
Status source: Telecom
Age: 77
A country: Mexico
Carlos Slim Helu is still the richest man in Mexico, but he has fallen out of the top five richest people in the world. For the first time in the last twelve years.
Slim and his family control America Movil, the largest telecom operator in Latin America. He holds stakes in Mexican companies in the development, real estate and mining sectors, and the consumer goods sector. He also owns 17% of The New York Times newspaper.
During the US presidential elections, Slim harshly criticized Donald Trump. After meeting with him in December 2016, Slim called one of his rare press conferences, in which he called on Mexico to unite against threats from the new US president.
7. Larry Ellison
State:$52.2 billion
Change over the year:+ $8.6 billion
Status source: Oracle
Age: 72
A country: USA
The talented software developer studied at two universities, but never graduated from either of them. But at the beginning of his career, Ellison managed to work for the CIA.
In 1977, the entrepreneur founded Oracle, which made him a billionaire. In 2014, Ellison stepped down as CEO of Oracle, but retained his positions as chairman of the board of directors and director of technology development. A year later, Ellison announced that the company would focus on developing cloud technologies. And apparently, this idea has begun to pay off - over the past 12 months, Oracle shares have risen 18%.
Ellison is a sailing fan and one of the largest sponsors of sailing competitions in the United States. The businessman is actively involved in charity work. In 2016, he pledged $200 million to the University of Southern California to develop cancer drugs.
8. Charles Koch
State:$48.3 billion
Change over the year:+ $8.7 billion
Status source: Koch Industries
Age: 81
A country: USA
Charles Koch and his brother David own the family holding company Koch Industries. With revenue of $100 billion, the company ranks second on the list of the largest private companies in the United States. The oil refinery, from which the history of the diversified holding began, was founded in 1940 by the brothers' father.
Since 1967, Charles Koch has held the post of Chairman of the Board of Directors at Koch Industries, and the intensive growth of the business is his merit. Charles and David Koch are among the most influential figures in American politics, philanthropy and business.
9. David Koch
State:$48.3 billion
Change over the year:+ $8.7 billion
Source states: Koch Industries
Age: 76
A country: USA
Along with his older brother Charles Koch, David owns the family company Koch Industries, founded by their father in 1940. The diversified holding is engaged in oil refining, pipeline construction, production of cups and paper towels, etc.
Republicans Charles and David Koch are among their party's most generous donors. The area of their charity is education. In mid-2014, for example, they awarded a $25 million grant to a fund supporting African-American students.
State:$47.5 billion
Change over the year:+ $7.5 billion
Status source: Bloomberg L.P.
Age: 75
A country: USA
The influential businessman and former mayor of New York began his career on Wall Street in 1966. Bloomberg worked at the investment bank Salomon Brothers for 15 years. After his dismissal, the future billionaire created Bloomberg LP, which provides financial information.
From 2001 to 2009, New Yorkers elected Bloomberg as their mayor. The billionaire resigned as mayor of the city in 2014 and returned to the leadership of his company less than a year later. Bloomberg is actively involved in charity work. In total, he donated $4 billion to various causes.
11. Bernard Arnault
State: $41.5 billion
Change per year: + $7.5 billion
State Source: luxuries
Age: 68
A country: France
Bernard Arnault is the president of the Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy group of companies, which controls 70 brands, including Dom Perignon, Bulgari, Louis Vuitton, Sephora and Tag Heuer, as well as about 3,900 retail stores.
In 2016, LVMH sold Donna Karan (Donna Karan and DKNY brands) and acquired Rimowa, a premium carry-on luggage manufacturer.
Arnault has headed the company since 1989. In 2016, the holding's sales increased by 5% and reached a record €37.6 billion. Shares of Christian Dior and LVMH over the past year have risen in price by 20% and 29%, respectively.
Result: Arnault’s fortune increased by $7.5 billion, the businessman rose from 14th to 11th place in the ranking of the wealthiest people in the world. This is the highest figure for Arnault since 2013.
12. Larry Page
State:$40.7 billion
Change over the year:+ $5.5 billion
Status source: Google
Age: 43
A country: USA
Larry Page is the CEO of Alphabet, Google's parent company. It was created in October 2015 to differentiate the search engine's core business from other areas of activity.
Page founded Google in 1998 with Stanford University student Sergey Brin. In 2016, Google shares rose 18%, increasing Page's wealth by $5.5 billion.
According to media reports, Larry Page is personally funding two secret flying car startups: Zee.Aero and Kitty Hawk.
13. Sergey Brin
State:$39.8 billion
Change over the year:+ $5.4 billion
Status source: Google
Age: 43
A country: USA
Brin serves as president of Alphabet, Google's parent company. Previously led the Google X division, which created Google's "ill-fated glasses" (one of Google's most notorious failures).
During 2016, Brin sold $760 million worth of Google shares.
The businessman founded Google in 1998 with Larry Page, whom they met at Stanford University.
Brin, a native of the USSR, is the richest immigrant to the United States and an outspoken critic of Donald Trump's anti-immigration initiatives.
14. Liliane Bettencourt
State:$39.5 billion
Change over the year:+ $3.4 billion
Status source: L'Oreal
Age: 94
A country: France
Liliane Bettencourt is the richest woman in the world; together with her children, she owns 33% of the cosmetics giant L'Oréal. Over the past year, the holding's shares have risen in price by 17%, increasing her fortune by $3.4 billion.
L"Oréal was founded by Eugene Schuller (father of Liliane Bettencourt) in 1907. In 2011, Bettencourt, suffering from dementia, was placed under the care of her daughter, Françoise Meyers-Bettencourt. In 2012, Jean-Victor Meyers took over as head of L"Oréal - grandson of Lilian Bettencourt.
Bettencourt's relatives also initiated legal proceedings against photographer François-Marie Banier. He was accused of exploiting the physical weakness of Liliane Betancourt for personal gain as a trusted person.
In August 2016, a French appeals court ordered Banier to pay a fine of $400,000 and return assets worth $90 million. Later, a court decision was also made to arrest Banier, he was ordered to pay an additional $170 million. Banier denies his guilt, he appealed the decision to the Supreme Court .
15. Robson Walton
State:$34.1 billion
Change over the year:+ $2.2 billion
Status source: Walmart
Age: 72
A country: USA
Rob Walton is the eldest son of Walmart founder Sam Walton. He ran Walmart for 23 years after his father died in 1992. In 2015, Rob Walton was replaced as chairman of Walmart by his son-in-law Greg Penner.
In September 2016, Walmart acquired online retailer Jet.com. The holding's shares rose in price by 5% over the past year. Rob Walton still owns Walmart, and his family collectively owns more than half of the company.
16. Jim Walton
State:$34 billion
Change over the year:+ $400 million
Status source: Walmart
Age: 68
A country: USA
Jim Walton is the youngest son of Walmart founder Sam Walton. He runs his family's Arvest Bank, whose total assets exceed $16 billion.
The businessman served on Walmart's board for more than a decade before giving way to his son, Stuart, in June 2016. Collectively, Jim and Sam Walton's other heirs own more than half of Walmart's shares, which are up more than 5% in 2016.
17. Alice Walton
State:$33.8 billion
Change over the year:+ $1.5 billion
Status source: Walmart
Age: 67 years old
A country: USA
Alice Walton is the only daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton. Unlike her brothers, who worked at Walmart, Alice focused on art projects.
In 2011, Alice Walton opened the Crystal Bridges Museum in her family's hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas. It features works by artists such as Andy Warhol, Norman Rockwell and Mark Rothko. Her personal art collection is valued at hundreds of millions of dollars.
18. Wang Jianlin
State:$31.3 billion
Change over the year:+ $2.6 billion
Status source: real estate, entertainment
Age: 62
A country: China
Wang Jianlin is the richest man in China. He has been like this for the last four years in a row. Jianlin made his fortune by building hotels, residential properties and shopping centers. He owns the Dalian Wanda Group, which has made several high-profile deals in the entertainment industry over the past few years.
In particular, in January 2016, Dalian Wanda Group acquired the American film company Legendary Entertainment for $3.5 billion (where, for example, the film The Dark Knight was created). Earlier, in 2012, Dalian Wanda Group acquired the AMC Entertainment cinema chain in the United States for $2.6 billion. In March 2017, Jianlin's company tried to acquire Dick Clark Productions (an American producer of television shows) for $1 billion, but the deal fell through.
At the same time, Jianlin is investing in the Chinese entertainment industry. In May 2016, Dalian Wanda opened Dalian Wanda-City, a $3 billion theme park complex in Nanchang, China. In total, Wang plans to open 20 more such complexes, mainly in China.
19. Li Ka-shing
State:$31.2 billion
Change over the year:+ $4.1 billion
Status source: various
Age: 88
A country: Hong Kong
Li Ka-shing is the richest man in Hong Kong and owns real estate developer Cheung Kong Property. Over the past 12 months (as of mid-February), the company's shares have risen by 31%. The businessman also made good money thanks to a jump in the value of shares of the Canadian oil company Husky Energy, which he controls.
Li Ka-shing last year invested in the Postal Savings Bank of China and also announced the $5 billion acquisition of Australian electricity and natural gas distributor Duet.
One of the largest investors in Asia, Li Ka-shing has invested more than $28 billion in European companies over the past five years. Li Ka-shing's areas of interest include ports, utility providers, telecommunications, real estate, and retail. The billionaire employs more than 310,000 people in more than 50 countries.
20. Sheldon Adelson
State:$30.4 billion
Change over the year:+ $5.2 billion
Status source: casino
Age: 83
A country: USA
Sheldon Adelson runs Las Vegas Sands, the largest player in the US casino market. The company's shares have risen 23% in the 12 months to mid-February, which has been the main reason Adelson's fortune has risen over the past year.
Adelson actively invests abroad. In September 2016, Las Vegas Sands opened a new themed resort in Macau, China. The cost of the project was $2.9 billion. Earlier, in April 2016, Las Vegas Sands agreed to pay a fine of $9 million to the US Securities and Exchange Commission to settle charges of violating the corruption law in Macau.
Sheldon Adelson has a reputation as one of the Republicans' "wallets" and is part of President Donald Trump's "inner circle." Adelson donated $5 million to Trump's election campaign, and the entrepreneur invested about $40 million more in the campaigns of Republican candidates in the congressional elections.
The son of immigrants from Lithuania and Wales, Sheldon Adelson grew up poor. As a child, he had to sleep on the floor in a cramped high-rise apartment in Boston. The future billionaire began earning money by selling newspapers. Adelson opened his first retail outlet at the age of 12, borrowing $200 from his uncle.
