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CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos is the third consecutive year, tops the list of the richest billionaires in the world by Forbes magazine. According to the 34-th annual rating of the richest people in the world, as Bezos amounted to 113 billion dollars, a decline for the year to $ 18 billion. Second place was taken by one of the founders of Microsoft bill gates with a fortune of 98 billion dollars.
the third place ranking rose General Director of the French group LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy) Bernard Arnault, whose fortune is estimated at 76 billion dollars. Earlier occupied the third place in the list, the head of investment Fund Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett slipped to fourth place in the rating. His fortune is estimated at 67.5 billion dollars, having decreased for a year on $ 15 billion.
the top Five richest people in the world closes billionaire Larry Ellison with a fortune of 59 billion dollars, reports TASS.
Total rating 2095 Forbes entered the world of billionaires, whose total state amounted to 8 trillion dollars. In 2019, the rating consisted of 2153 billionaires with a total fortune of 8.7 trillion dollars.
In the global ranking of billionaires according to Forbes in 2020, included 102 participants from Russia. Five of them for the first time made the list: it is the founder of game studios Playrix brothers Igor and Dmitry Bahmani, co-founder of FINTECH service Revolut Nicholas storonskiy Creator alkomarketov “Red & White” Sergey Studennikov and President of the group “Alltech” Dmitry Bosov.
the Most wealthy Russians in 2020, became co-owner of Norilsk Nickel Vladimir Potanin (38th place). He surpassed last year’s leader Leonid Mikhelson: the founder of “NOVATEK” has fallen to third place, behind also the main shareholder NLMK of Vladimir Lisina.
the status of the primary owner and CEO of MMC “Norilsk Nickel” Forbes estimated at 19.7 billion. Potanin has regained the status of richest Russians – in 2015 he was a leader among the Russian billionaires in the ranking with an assessment of the state of 15.4 billion dollars.
most for the year increased as a 55-year-old Chinese pig farmer Qin Inline. His condition grew from 4.3 billion to 18.5 billion dollars, that is 4 times or more. Shares of his company Muyuan Foodstuff has risen sharply in price after the African swine flu reduced the number of pigs in China by a third, which led to an increase in pork prices in the market twice, wrote The Bell.
Muyuan Foodstuff was able to avoid serious effects of the epidemic through these measures: disinfection of trucks, sterilization of feed and air filtration on farms. “Porcine epidemic carries both harm and profit. We must ride this storm and turn it into a great opportunity for development,” said Qin Yinglin in an interview.
