The Forbes magazine has just announced a few weeks ago in its new 2012 list of billionaires in the world, a total of 1,226 billionaires around the world with a magnificent view of Networth about $ 4, $ 6 trillion - that is a little larger, for example, that the total GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of India and more than the combined GDP of the 127 poorest countries in the world.
Much has changed since last year, with the Forbes list is mainly dominated by the same people, with three new entries in the Top 10 this year, Asia's richest person, Li Ka-Shing, Karl Albrecht and Stefan Persson, H & M. Stefan Persson was up five notches to No. 13 last year, Li Ka-shing, went back into the top 10 for the first time in many years and Karl Albrecht ends at the top of the tenth is yearafter he was the 12 of the richest on the list of 2011.
Let's start the list of 10 richest people in the world in 2012, we will do?
1 – Carlos Slim Helu – $69 billion
This is the third year of the domination of Carlos Slim Helu, but this time its total assets is equal to $ 69 billion, a whopping $ 5 billion less than 2010. This is due to lower prices of the shares of America Movil, a total of nearly half its wealth. Mexican regulators fined the monopoly prices for the brand with an excellent $ 1 billion, but are currently appealing the fine. One good thing is that Mr. Helu spent more time with Telmex and Fundación Carlos Slim. 72 years old, currently lives in Mexico.
2 – Bill Gates – $61 billion
Bill Gates is an idol for many - who has donated much of his fortune, $ 28 million to date, becoming the most generous person alive. He played an important role in the eradication of polio in India - the country has announced the first year without polio, in January. Maintain a donation of $ 200 million per year for countries struggling with this terrible disease, such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, founded by Mr. Gates, is the subject of intense research in the development of a malaria vaccine is already promising. There is also the GAVI Alliance, an organization that is responsible for the distribution of the vaccine in the world, founded by him, which grossed a whopping $ 4.3 billion in pledges, whose main objective was to combat malaria, a serious condition that occurs with pneumonia, meningitis and diarrhea.
One objective is to restore agriculture new traditionalism, as has donated $ 2 billion to small farmers. Microsoft, as you probably know, still holds a quarter of total wealth in shares, with the highest values of the shares in the last 10 years. The rest of his fortune coves and private equity, bonds and stocks as Ecolab and Televisa. 56, lives in Medina, Washington with his family.
3 – Warren Buffett – $44 billion
Now 81, Warren Buffett has finally made its long awaited decision below, without revealing the exact name of the person concerned. Late last year, named his son, Howard Buffett, the future of non-executive chairman and "guardian of corporate values."
The "rule of Buffett" is one of his ideas, saying that the rich should contribute much more than the average man, which forces them to pay at least 30% tax rate. The value of Berkshire shares fell 7%, and therefore, its net assets fell by $ 6 billion a year - later admitted he made some bad decisions that led to the fall in the value of inventories.
4 – Bernard Arnault – $41 billion
He currently resides in beautiful Paris, the famous French magnate still had an excellent year for his company, the world-renowned group LVMH. The benefits of the brand increased 22% due to record sales made by Louis Vuitton, and the integration of flowering of Bulgari. They did a joint venture with best crocodile leather tanneries in the world along Heng.
There is also a disadvantage to securities firms of Mr. Arnault, according to the turnover of the supermarket chain Carrefour, which invested in it recorded $ 1 billion less. He is the proud owner of Indigo Island in the Bahamas, where rents for $ 300,000 per week and Cheval Blanc, a ski chalet in Courchevel. 63, is married with five children.
5 – Amancio Ortega – $37.5 billion
The Spanish magnate resigned as president of the global fashion brand of Inditex, in July 2011. The company, however, is thriving - their actions are constitutive of a quarter. This has had a positive impact on net worth of Mr. Ortega, raised $ 6.5 billion. He bought the Picasso Tower, a skyscraper of 43 floors in the center of Madrid, to $ 536 million, of Esther Koplowitz, in December.
It is also the proud owner of a share in a football league, a tennis Vault, and Epic Residences & Hotel, a luxury condominium and a hotel of 54 plants under development in Miami. Starting as a clerk in the shop of his father, he is 75 years.
6 – Larry Ellison – $36 billion
The magnate IT, CEO of Oracle Corporation, has been subject to significant fluctuations in your company for months. Business profit fell as sales of Oracle fell slightly - what Mr. Ellison is a decrease of $ 3.5 million dollars of his fortune. Try to break the temporary poor Oracle, bought in February for Taleo 1.9 billion in October and RightNow, for $ 1.5 billion.
He is always ready to purchase the baseball team the Los Angeles Dodgers, among some other billionaires. In 2010, he won the Copa America and helped bring the America's Cup Finals 2013 San Francisco Bay. 67 years old, this father of two divorced three times, but has recently remarried.
7 – Eike Batista – $30 billion
Brazil's richest man, Eike Batista, is still profitable in mining and oil. OGX Petroleo e Gas oil and gas driller, began producing oil for the first time during a test in late January, off the coast. Has 61% stake, worth a staggering 19.8 billion, which means that mathematically the two-thirds of his fortune.
In February 2011, began to venture into the gold trade, having spent $ 1.5 billion to purchase Ventana Gold House, a very promising mine in Colombia, Canada. The 55-year-old divorced father of two lives in Rio de Janeiro.
8 – Stefan Persson – $26 billion
The eighth on our list is the owner of H & M. Marni and Versace bought it last year, opening its first stores in Romania, Singapore and Croatia. Currently owns 2,500 stores in 43 countries worldwide. The president of H & M bought 5 million shares of the company and later equipped with 4 million, approximately $ 150 million for a program of exciting.
Persson's father Erling founded H & M in 1947. Stefan became later, in 1982, resigned as CEO in 1998. He promoted his son, Karl-Johan, the chief executive in July 2009. During the same year, won the village of 21 cottages of Linkenholt in Hampshire, England. 64 years old, is married and lives in Stockholm.
9 – Li Ka-Shing – $25.5 billion
Since 2007, this is the first time we met the tycoon based in Hong Kong in the Top 10. He was named the richest man in Asia for the first time since 2004, although his net worth has fallen $ 500 million. Hutchinson, its core business, employs 270,000 people worldwide in 53 countries. One of the seven residences in Hong Kong was built by his mark, while the Hutchinson Port - Holdings in accordance with 13% of world container traffic in total.
Recently bought Northumbrian Water, which provides sanitation services to 2.7 million people in England and providing drinking water to another 4.5 million. 83-year-old made personal investments in Spotify and Facebook. He is a widower with two children.
10 – Karl Albrecht – $25.4 billion
Aldi South discount store giant, known estimated sales of $ 39 billion recently. Owning than 4,500 stores worldwide, the brand has only 1200 in the United States. The first Aldi South stores in New York opened last year in the Bronx and Queens. Chain stores do not accept payment by credit card, to keep costs as low as possible.
With his brother Theo, who started the business in the world of business in the grocery store her mother on the corner, after the Second World War, becomes a chain of retail absolutely huge, with low prices and without bling-that the main policy. The brand has been divided between the two - Karl took the most profitable stores in southern Germany and human rights in the U.S., UK and Australia.
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