Hello everyone, Vyacheslav Bulenkov is with you and in this issue, I will share the TOP 10 richest people in Russia in the Forbes world ranking for 2015. On March 2, the American Forbes published its traditional, 29th, global ranking of billionaires. This time, the list included 88 businessmen from Russia, 33 less than a year earlier, and Vladimir Potanin became the leader for the first time - he displaced Alisher Usmanov from the first “national” line. Russian participants in the rating have become noticeably “impoverished” over the year - the reason for this is the crisis in the country’s economy and Western sanctions due to the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and the war in Donbass. In terms of the number of dollar billionaires, Russia is now inferior not only to the United States and China, but also to Germany and India. 10. Mikhail Prokhorov Net worth: $9.9 billion Change over the year: -$1 billion Position in the world ranking: 125 Athlete, banker, metallurgist, playboy, investor, media mogul, politician and owner of the NBA club - all this is Mikhail Prokhorov. In 2012, he shocked all of Russia with his unexpected candidacy for the post of president of the country - and according to the election results he collected a quite respectable 8% of the vote. But since then the businessman’s political career has faded. His most notable American project is the construction of a new arena for the Nets. In December 2013, he acquired 27% in Uralkali, the world's largest producer of potash fertilizers. 9. Gennady Timchenko Net worth: $10.7 billion Change for the year: -$4.6 billion Position in the world ranking: 118 Gennady Timchenko owns shares in many companies in the gas, transport and construction industries. Among its assets are the largest gas producer Novatek, the petrochemical holding Sibur, the railway carrier Transoil and the insurance company Sogaz. Being one of the most influential people in the country, the billionaire, who is considered a close friend of Vladimir Putin, came under US sanctions in 2014. Among Timchenko’s non-business workload is the supervision of Russian hockey: he chairs the KHL board of directors and holds the post of president of the St. Petersburg club SKA. 8. Vladimir Lisin Net worth: $11.6 billion Change over the year: -$5 billion Position in the world ranking: 107 Vladimir Lisin made his fortune in metallurgy, rail transportation and logistics. Previously, he became a partner in the Trans-World Group, which over several years has grown into a leading Russian exporter of aluminum and steel. By that time, Lisin had accumulated a wealth of experience in managing metallurgical production, so that during the division of assets in 2000, he naturally received ownership of the industry giant, the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works. The billionaire also controls the logistics holding UCL, which owns the First Freight Company. 7. Leonid Mikhelson Net worth: $11.7 billion Change for the year: -$3.9 billion Position in the world ranking: 105 Leonid Mikhelson is the main owner of the gas producer Novatek, the chemical group Sibur and the First United Bank. In July 2014, the United States and the European Union imposed sanctions against Novatek, putting pressure on Timchenko's business partner, who is considered a close friend of Putin in the West. The company remains the controlling shareholder of the Yamal LNG project, which is developing despite sanctions pressure. To support it, Novatek requested $2.3 billion in support from the National Welfare Fund. The total cost of the project is estimated at $27 billion, Chinese investors are ready to invest $10 billion. 6. Vagit Alekperov Net worth: $12.2 billion Change for the year: -$1.4 billion Position in the world ranking: 96 Vagit Alekperov heads Lukoil, the largest oil company in Russia, which, in particular, is developing the West Qurna 2 field in Iraq, possessing some of the richest deposits on the planet. The billionaire does not have a reputation as a businessman from the inner circle of President Vladimir Putin, which did not save Lukoil from US sanctions in September 2014. Having gone through all the career stages in the oil industry, at the end of the USSR the future billionaire even managed to work as an industry minister. In 1991, he privatized three large fields and founded Lukoil. Alekperov is the author of the book “Russian Oil: Past, Present and Future.” 5. Alexey Mordashov Net worth: $13 billion Change over the year: +$2.5 billion Position in the world ranking: 89 In mid-January 2015, Putin received Mordashov and made the metallurgical magnate promise not to allow unreasonable investments. Against the backdrop of bad market conditions for Russia, the billionaire got rid of all American assets - his company Severstal is now focusing on the national market. At the end of 2013, the businessman, together with entrepreneur Yuri Kovalchuk, close to Putin, bought a 50% stake in the fourth largest Russian mobile operator Tele2 Russia. Also, together with Kovalchuk, Mordashov is a shareholder of Rossiya Bank, which is under US and EU sanctions due to the “pro-presidential” reputation of its main shareholder. In 2011, the owner of Severstal increased his stake in the Power Machines holding, purchasing 25% from Siemens. 4. Viktor Vekselberg Net worth: $14.2 billion Change over the year: -$3 billion Position in the world ranking: 73 Russian authorities chose Viktor Vekselberg to be the project supervisor for the national analogue of Silicon Valley - the Skolkovo innovation city - in 2010. Since then, three billionaire companies have already appeared among the project residents who received grants from the state. In 2013, the businessman, together with Mikhail Fridman and Leonard Blavatnik, sold a 50% stake in the oil company TNK-BP to the state-owned Rosneft for $28 billion. Vekselberg earned his first million from selling scrap metal. In the 1990s, he founded the holding company SUAL. In 2007, SUAL merged assets with the Rusal group and the mining company Glencore - this is how the world's largest aluminum producer UC Rusal was born. In addition, Vekselberg has stakes in petrochemical, consumer goods and telecommunications businesses. 3. Alisher Usmanov Net worth: $14.4 billion Change for the year: -$4.2 billion Position in the world ranking: 71 Alisher Usmanov lost his status as the richest man in Russia after three years of leadership, but continues to remain a key figure in several major sectors of the national economy. . Among his assets are the metallurgical giant Metalloinvest, the country's second largest mobile operator Megafon, the Internet holding Mail.ru Group and the Kommersant publishing house. The billionaire's most successful investments internationally are in the tech industry: He was an early investor in Facebook, but sold all of his shares in the social network in 2013 to invest in rising Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and Chinese budget smartphone maker Xiaomi. Usmanov also remains a shareholder of the London football club Arsenal. 2. Mikhail Fridman Net worth: $14.6 billion Change over the year: -$3 billion Position in the world ranking: 68 Together with his friends from study, Mikhail Fridman controls Alfa Group, the largest private financial and industrial group in Russia. In 2011, Alfa-controlled mobile operator VimpelCom acquired the telecommunications holding of Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris and became the sixth largest player in the global market. Fridman and partners also own the second largest chain of stores in Russia – X5 Retail Group. 1. Vladimir Potanin Net worth: $15.4 billion Change over the year: +$2.8 billion Position in the world ranking: 60 Vladimir Potanin, a former employee of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, met his future partner Mikhail Prokhorov in 1991. In 1993, the partners created Oneximbank, which lured IBES clients to serve them. Oneximbank became a platform for the construction of the Interros holding. With the support of the state, the billionaire became the largest private investor in the Winter Olympics in Sochi - he built the Rosa Khutor ski resort. And so, this was the TOP 10 richest people in Russia in the Forbes world ranking for 2015. Subscribe to the channel to receive new inspiring and useful episodes, write your opinion in the comments, and if you liked the episode, like and share this video with your friends. This will be the biggest support for me. And Vyacheslav Bulenkov was with you and see you again!
60-year-old Bill Gates topped the Forbes list of the world's richest people for the seventeenth time in the last 22 years. At the same time, his fortune decreased by $4.2 billion, to $75 billion, according to the magazine’s thirtieth annual ranking. 
Second place was taken by Zara founder Amancio Ortega ($64.5 billion, an increase of $0.5 billion over the year), and investor Warren Buffett closed the top three ($60.8 billion, a decrease of $11.9 billion). In fourth place was Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim with $50 billion, having lost almost a third of his fortune in a year (about $27.1 billion).
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos rose from 15th to 5th place ($45.2 billion, an increase of $10.4 billion), the head of Facebook - from 16th to 6th position ($44.6 billion, an increase of $11.2 billion).
The 2016 Forbes list included 77 representatives of Russia, which is 11 people less than the year before. The Russian part of the ranking was headed for the first time by the co-owner of Novatek and Sibur Leonid Mikhelson (60th place in the general list, $14.4 billion), displacing Vladimir Potanin from this position, who dropped to fourth place (78th place in the general list, $12.1 billion).
Second place in the list of the richest Russians was taken by Mikhail Fridman ($13.3 billion, a drop of $1.3 billion over the year, 63rd place in the overall list), third – Alisher Usmanov ($12.5 billion, minus $1.9 billion over the year, 73 place in the general list).
The third position in the ranking of the richest citizens of Russia was taken by Alisher Usmanov (Metalloinvest, Megafon, Kommersant), who headed the Russian segment of the ranking for several years in a row. His fortune is estimated at $12.5 billion.
Roman Abramovich took 12th place in the Russian segment of the rating and 151st place in the overall list ($7.6 billion, a drop of $1.5 billion). The founder of Magnit, Sergei Galitsky, was ranked 16th in the Russian ranking and 219th in the overall list ($5.7 billion, a drop of $2.6 billion).
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Jupiter shock
For the first time in several years, the number of people on the list of the world's richest people, their total wealth and average net worth have declined.
Volatile stock markets, falling oil prices and a stronger dollar have led to a redistribution of wealth around the world and a decline in 10-figure net worth for the first time since 2009. For the 30th annual benefit to the world's rich, we found 1810 billionaires, which is less than last year's amount for 16 participants. Their total net worth has decreased by $570 billion and compiled $6.48 trillion. For the first time since 2010, the average capital of the list participants decreased - now it is $3.6 billion, which is $300 million less than last year.
Behind these figures lies a story of colossal upheaval, during which 221 participants left the list when they entered it 198 newcomers. 29 billionaires left this world, but 29 of those who in the previous year left the ranks of the richest again took this height. Among the participants in the rating this year and previous years 829 became poorer , A 501 increased his capital.
Permutations start from the very top of the list. Only two of the top 20 managed to maintain their positions. Bill Gates with own capital $75 billion is still the richest man on Earth, even though a year ago he was by $4.2 billion richer. For three years in a row he has been No. 1 in the rating, and for a total of 22 years 17 times ranked at the very top (in the 30 years that Forbes has been tracking the world's wealth, only five people have held the title of world's richest; three of them are still in the top 5, including Warren Buffett and Carlos Slim). Buffett firmly holds third position. Owner Zara Armancio Ortega for the first time rose to second place, displacing Slim to fourth. The latter’s condition over the past year was $50 billion, contracting n and $27.1 billion amid falling shares of his América Móvil.
Of all the billionaires, the most successful year was for Mark Zuckerberg. He added to his capital $11.2 billion and rose from 16th to 6th level of the ranking. Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos appeared in the top ten of Forbes' annual ranking of the world's richest people for the first time. Another newcomer is a billionaire from mainland China Wang Jianlin, whose company owns AMC Theatres, took a place immediately in the top 20.
Some of the most notable newcomers include the first theatrical producer on the list; Adam Newman and Miguel McKelvey from WeWork, Ben Silberman and Evan Sharp from Pintrest. Newman, Silberman and Sharp - three of 66 billionaires under 40 years old. The youngest is 19-year-old heiress from Norway Alexandra Andresen, owner 42% share in the family business, and her sister Katarina is only 20. Another first-time participant worth mentioning separately is Zhou Cun Fei, whose $5.9 billion The fortune made on smartphone screens was enough to make her the richest self-made woman in the world. She's one of the 190 women, included in the list, while last year the fair half belonged to 197 positions.
Among the famous people who left the rating are the fashion designer head of Samuel Adams and the head of Dick’s Sporting Goods Edward Stack. The lead in the number of billionaires belongs to the United States - 540 people. They are followed by mainland China with 251 billionaire (69 rich people from Hong Kong go separately) and Germany - 120. Billionaire fortune holders from Russia 77 people (11 less, than last year), and in Brazil - 23 (versus 31). The Forbes Billionaires Ranking is a snapshot of global wealth.
The richest people in the world
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Compared to last year, there have been changes in the list of the 20 richest people on the planet, during which only Bill Gates (No. 1) and Warren Buffett (No. 3) retained their positions. The owner of the fashion brand Zara, Spaniard Armancio Ortega, moved from fourth to second place, swapping places with Carlos Slim Helu, the Mexican tycoon who lost more than anyone else last year - $27.1 billion
Jeff Bezos Amazon and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, both successful in amassing wealth in the past year, entered the top 10 richest for the first time, while Warren Buffett's Brazilian partner Jorge Paulo Lehmann and investor from China Wang Jianlin- the owner of AMC Entertainment Holdings, which is planning to acquire the film company Legendary Entertainment - entered the top 20 for the first time.
The first 20 participants in the rating account for $827 billion, What $73 billion (8%) less, than the total capital of last year's top 20.
Retired
Falling commodities, stock market chaos and a fragile global economy have weakened the financial health of many of the world's richest people. Over the past year 221 billionaires dropped out of the ranking; not since 2009 - when the credit crisis contributed to the expulsion 355 participants from the club of owners of nine-digit fortunes - so many people did not leave the rating at once.
China suffered the most losses - 42 ex-members, followed by the USA, where 25 billionaires switched to former status. In Brazil it became for 23 billionaires less in Russia - at 19, in India - at 15, so the term “BRICS economy” has a new meaning.
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Capital in 2015: $1 billion
Current: $800 million
Sales of luxury fashion goods are declining following a decline in demand in markets in China, Russia and the rest of the world. This also damaged the fortunes of Birch, the founder of the fashion label of the same name.
Capital in 2015: $1.3 billion
Current: $840 million
And here comes the hangover. As beer's share of the alcohol market declined, the father of American brewing (his company, Boston Beer, produces the Samuel Adams brand) watched his fortunes diminish—by 39% in total.
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Capital in 2015: $1.4 billion
Current capital: $750 million
The first ethanol billionaire, originally from Brazil, runs the publicly traded Cosan, a conglomerate based in Sao Paulo. The abundance of oil has played against both alternative fuels and fuel additives; Cosan shares are down 62% year-over-year.
Capital in 2015: $1 billion
Current: $930 million
Previously, India's only self-made female billionaire founded Biocon Ltd., the country's largest publicly traded biopharmaceutical company. Its shares have fallen nearly 20% since January, which occurs during times of market turbulence, despite strong third-quarter earnings.
Capital in 2015: $1.7 billion each
Current: $870 million each
The German brothers (Oliver pictured) behind Rocket Internet, notorious for cloning the ideas of prominent tech firms (Zappos, Blue Apron, etc.), have seen their company's share price nearly halve since its IPO in October 2014.
Capital in 2015: $1 billion
Current: $480 million
Federal investigations, earnings revisions and negative publicity over drug price hikes have eroded pharmaceutical Valeant's capital. The company's CEO, Pearson, also in poor health, recently returned from a long sick leave.
Who stayed, who came, who left
The membership lists of the global billionaires' club are in a constant state of flux, as the history of the last decade shows, with uninvited guests enjoying their newfound status while those unlucky (by billionaire standards, of course) peer through the door.
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Coming out to bow
Notable Newcomer
The debut of Les Misérables in 1985 in London's West End marked the end of one act and the beginning of another in Mackintosh's life. "Only after that,- he says. - People saw that you could make more money from musicals than from movies."
Mackintosh produced a slew of musical blockbusters, including The Phantom of the Opera and Miss Saigon. He has a stake in Phantom and Cats, as well as full rights to Les Misérables and Miss Saigon, meaning he receives royalties every time the professionals produce any of those musicals. In addition, he owns eight theaters in the West End and 75% at Music Theater International, the largest licensor of Broadway shows. All this together makes him the owner of a fortune of $1.2 billion
“You never know when the money will come and when it will go,” says McIntosh, 69, who started his career as a stagehand on a weekly salary $30. - I'm more surprised than anyone." His next big venture is likely to be a success: in 2017, he's bringing the Broadway sensation Hamilton to the West End.
Dollar days
In numbers
A rising dollar has wiped billions out of the pockets of the world's richest people, and countries with heavily energy-linked economies such as Russia, Mexico and Brazil have suffered double-digit declines in the past year. China's slowing economy and Europe's slow recovery made the Japanese yen the only major currency to strengthen against the US dollar.
Young guns
The richest under 40
36 - A record number of billionaires under 40 who made their fortunes are self-made. Their combined net worth is $125.5 billion Half of them come from technology startups called "unicorns" - privately held firms with an estimated value of $1 billion or more.
Adam Newman ($1.5 billion)
Where did the interest come from? Newman to shared office spaces? Possibly from the agricultural commune (kibbutz) in Israel where he grew up. WeWork, which Newman, 36, founded in New York in 2010 with Miguel McKelvey can now be rightfully proud 40 thousand users collective offices in 16 cities; The company's value is estimated at $10 billion
Name | Age
Capital, Company
Evan Spiegel | 25
$2.1 billion, Snapchat
Bobby Murphy | 27
$1.8 billion, Snapchat
Dustin Moskowitz | 31
$8.9 billion, Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg | 31
$44.6 billion, Facebook
Nathan Blecharczyk | 32
$3.3 billion, Airbnb
Ryan Graves | 32
$1.5 billion, Uber
Elizabeth Holmes | 32
$3.6 billion, Theranos
Drew Houston | 32
$1 billion, Dropbox
Wang Yue | 32
$1.1 billion, online games
Binny Bansal | 33
$1.2 billion, Flipkart
Eduardo Saverin | 33
$6.2 billion, Facebook
Kirill Shamalov | 33
$1.2 billion, oil industry
Evan Sharp | 33
$1 billion, Pintrest
Ben Silberman | 33
$1.6 billion, Pintrest
Cheng Wei | 33
$1 billion, taxi calling app
Sachin Bansal | 34
$1.2 billion, Flipkart
Brian Chesky | 34
$3.3 billion, Airbnb
Joe Gebbia | 34
$3.3 billion, Airbnb
Frank Wang | 35
$3.6 billion, DJI
Mike Cannon-Brookes | 36
Scott Farquhar | 36
$1.4 billion, business software
Orion Hindawi | 36
$1 billion, software
$1.5 billion, WeWork
Sean Parker | 36
$2.4 billion, Facebook
Markus Persson | 36
$1.3 billion, Minecraft
Cai Xiaozhu | 36
$1.2 billion, parts for electronic equipment
Zhang Banxin | 36
$1.3 billion, after-school education
Garrett Kamp | 37
$6.2 billion, Uber
Robert Pera | 37
$2 billion, equipment for wireless networks
Naruatsu Baba | 38
$1.2 billion, games for smartphones
Jack Dorsey | 39
$1 billion, Twitter
Travis Kalanick | 39
$6.2 billion, Uber
Li Weiwei | 39
$1.3 billion, online games
Wu Gang | 39
$1.3 billion, cash management
Zhou Yahui | 39
$2.3 billion, online games
Frank Wang ($3.6 billion)
Wang, 35, is the world's first billionaire to make his fortune from drones, having founded SZ Dajiang Innovation Technology, also known as DJI, in a university dorm room in Hong Kong; now the company is standing $8 billion and takes 75% share of a rapidly developing market.
Evan Spiegel ($2.1 billion)
The 25-year-old Snapchat co-founder is the youngest self-made billionaire. The messaging app he created, whose fast-disappearing feature prompted Hillary Clinton's tongue-in-cheek endorsement, raised funding last May based on its value. at $16 billion.(The net worth of the other co-founder, 27-year-old Bobby Murphy estimated at $1.8 billion).
Jack Dorsey ($1 billion)
Facing the open market can be a daunting task - and doubly so when you're running two companies. Both companies owned Dorsey- Twitter and Square, which deals with electronic payments, have recently seen their share prices fall. Twitter's user growth has stalled, and Square has yet to convince the market that it is still worth what private investors once valued it at.
Orion Hindawi ($1 billion)
Tanium, an information security company founded by Hindawi in 2007 with his billionaire father, provides real-time threat detection to clients such as Amazon and Visa. Orion, now 36, is serving as CEO while Tanium mulls an IPO.
Donald Trump White House
Real estate
Undoubtedly a new hotel Trump in DC it's going to be huge.
Whether Trump wins the 2016 election or not, he's guaranteed prime real estate in Washington, D.C. next year—on Pennsylvania Avenue of all places. In September (two years ahead of schedule), the people's billionaire will open the Trump International Hotel, located in the historic old post office building, just a few blocks from the White House.
It will not only have a presidential celebration hall with an area of 13.2 thousand sq. feet(it will become the largest luxury hall in the capital). Among 263 rooms there is room for three presidential suites, the largest of which will occupy 6.3 thousand sq. feet- approximately 8 times more than the Oval Office of the real White House.
Forbes@100
Forbes released its first ranking of the world's billionaires along with a special 50-page report: “A billion dollars seems like a good number to draw the line between wealth and great wealth. How someone managed to make or keep a billion dollars can likely tell a story about how the world works.” The issue featured both well-known names (Kerry Packer) and lesser known (queen of mail orders from Germany Greta Schickedanz) however, representatives of royal families were excluded (King of Saudi Arabia Fahd) and dictators (Kim Il Sung).
Total 24 countries were the birthplace of billionaires - today they are 67. There was not a single billionaire in China and Russia, and only one in India. One thing has remained constant: America has always had the largest number of nine-figure wealth owners. In 1987 in the USA there was 49 billionaires; Japan followed from 24; behind them is Germany (13), United Kingdom (7), Hong Kong and Canada (6 each).
“State borders still satisfy politicians, but they no longer limit business people.”
Internal reshuffles in Kazakhstan
$1.5 billion- the total fortune of five Kazakhstanis from the Forbes list of billionaires decreased by so much: from $10.8 billion in 2015 up to $9.3 billion in 2016. Everyone became poorer to varying degrees - by the amount from $100 million to $700 million.
For the third year in a row, he closes the list of Kazakhstani participants in the Forbes rating with a fortune $1.5 billion However, now he is in fourth or fifth place, having lost more than the rest of our billionaires in a year. The second and third positions are also divided among themselves Kulibayev couple with $4 billion total family wealth, decreased by $200 million The richest businessman in Kazakhstan has remained for three years now - $2.3 billion, missing for the year $300 million
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1/771 Status (last year): $2.3 billion ($2.6 billion) Age: 58 years old MMC, banks, telecom, hotel businessIn May 2015, the VimpelCom group of companies and Bulat Utemuratov entered into a new agreement. As a result, the latter’s share in the subsidiaries of the Group of Companies in Kazakhstan (KaR-Tel LLP) changed - from 28.5 to 25% and Kyrgyzstan (Sky Mobile LLC) - from 28.5 to 49.9%. According to the agreement, changes also affected the ownership structure - now both companies are managed by a holding company from Switzerland, and not from Cyprus. The put option that Utemuratov had and the buy option that belonged to VimpelCom were also cancelled.
In July-August 2015, the group's subsidiaries - VimpelCom Kazakhstan Holding AG and VimpelCom Kyrgyzstan Holding AG - paid dividends to Utemuratov in the amount of $104.28 million and $22.8 million, respectively.
His management company Verny Capital, which owns the Ritz-Carlton hotels in Vienna and Moscow, is building the first “green” Talan Towers complex in Astana, costing $350 million, where the future Ritz-Carlton Astana will be located. It will also house the headquarters of the investment company itself, the regional office of Glencore Xstrata and residential apartments.
For the first time, Bulat Utemuratov was included in the Forbes list after the sale of ATFBank to the Italian banking holding UniCredit in 2007 for $2.1 billion. In 2013, he sold Kazzinc to the transnational trader Glencore Xstrata and the Samruk-Kazyna National Welfare Fund.
Utemuratov heads the Kazakhstan Tennis Federation and is on the board of directors of the international tennis association ITF.
In September 2015 implemented for $300 million in cash put option 7.45% shares Polymetal (partially owned by Russian billionaire Alexander Nesis), received a year earlier for the Kyzyl project deal.
Son-in-law of the President of Kazakhstan on a parity basis with his wife Dinara Kulibaeva controls People's Bank through JSC Holding Group ALMEX. The list of his major assets also includes Almaty International Airport, KazStroyService and oil producing companies controlled from the offshore zone of Singapore through Steppe Capital Pte Ltd.
Kulibayev is a member of the board of directors of OJSC Gazprom, heads the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the association of companies in the energy and mining sector KazEnergy, the National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Kazakhstan Boxing Federation.
The daughter of the President of Kazakhstan, together with her husband Timur Kulibayev, owns a bank, oil production, oil trading, aviation and other assets. Head of the National Education Foundation Nursultan Nazarbayev, is a member of the board of directors of JSC “KazUMOiMYA” (Almaty Foreign Languages), as well as the chairman of the board of directors of JSC “Kazakhstan-British Technical University”.
In June 2015, Alijan Ibragimov received 40%
in the Jerooy project - the second largest gold deposit in Kyrgyzstan - from the Russian Platinum group Musa Bazhaev to settle a lawsuit with Visor Holding
A subsidiary of Russian Platinum, the Vostok-geoldobycha company, won a license to develop the field at a starting price $100 million Resolution of the legal dispute was an obligation under the terms of the competition.
The amount of Visor Holding's claim against the government of Kyrgyzstan was $548 million- for revocation of the license to develop the field. In August 2015, a tripartite settlement agreement was signed between the government, Vostok-Geoldobycha and Visor Holding. The details of the deal were not disclosed, but it is obvious that Karibzhanov received some kind of compensation.
In August, Chinese Geo-Jade Petroleum for $340.5 million bought from International Mineral Resources II B.V. (IMR), where Ibragimov owns 33%,
Oil JSC "Kozhan" Now this company is 100%"daughter" JSC "Maten Petroleum".
In the first half of 2015, the sale of the Serov Ferroalloy Plant (SZF) and the Saranovsk Rudnaya mine to the Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant (CHEMK) was completed. The Eurasian group, according to one of the owners of CHEMK Yuriy Antipov, received for two assets $220 million
The same ENRC group, of which Ibragimov is a co-owner, is suing Indian billionaire Pramod Agarwal on charges of non-payment by the latter $220 million for a share in the Brazilian project “Zamin”.
Vladimir Kim remains the majority shareholder in both entities of the reorganized Kazakhmys - 33,4% in Kaz Minerals Plc, listed on the London Stock Exchange, and 70% at Kazakhmys Corporation LLP. In December 2015, two Kaz Minerals Plc deposits - Aktogay and Bozshakol - were launched and produced their first copper.
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Rating team
Editors: Louise Kroll, Kerry A. Dolan.
Deputy editors: Keren Blankfeld and Dan Alexander.
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Jupiter shock
For the first time in several years, the number of people on the list of the world's richest people, their total wealth and average net worth have declined.
Volatile stock markets, falling oil prices and a stronger dollar have led to a redistribution of wealth around the world and a decline in 10-figure net worth for the first time since 2009. For the 30th annual benefit to the world's rich, we found 1810 billionaires, which is less than last year's amount for 16 participants. Their total net worth has decreased by $570 billion and compiled $6.48 trillion. For the first time since 2010, the average capital of the list participants decreased - now it is $3.6 billion, which is $300 million less than last year.
Behind these figures lies a story of colossal upheaval, during which 221 participants left the list when they entered it 198 newcomers. 29 billionaires left this world, but 29 of those who in the previous year left the ranks of the richest again took this height. Among the participants in the rating this year and previous years 829 became poorer , A 501 increased his capital.
Permutations start from the very top of the list. Only two of the top 20 managed to maintain their positions. Bill Gates with own capital $75 billion is still the richest man on Earth, even though a year ago he was by $4.2 billion richer. For three years in a row he has been No. 1 in the rating, and for a total of 22 years 17 times ranked at the very top (in the 30 years that Forbes has been tracking the world's wealth, only five people have held the title of world's richest; three of them are still in the top 5, including Warren Buffett and Carlos Slim). Buffett firmly holds third position. Owner Zara Armancio Ortega for the first time rose to second place, displacing Slim to fourth. The latter’s condition over the past year was $50 billion, contracting n and $27.1 billion amid falling shares of his América Móvil.
Of all the billionaires, the most successful year was for Mark Zuckerberg. He added to his capital $11.2 billion and rose from 16th to 6th level of the ranking. Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos appeared in the top ten of Forbes' annual ranking of the world's richest people for the first time. Another newcomer is a billionaire from mainland China Wang Jianlin, whose company owns AMC Theatres, took a place immediately in the top 20.
Some of the most notable newcomers include the first theatrical producer on the list; Adam Newman and Miguel McKelvey from WeWork, Ben Silberman and Evan Sharp from Pintrest. Newman, Silberman and Sharp - three of 66 billionaires under 40 years old. The youngest is 19-year-old heiress from Norway Alexandra Andresen, owner 42% share in the family business, and her sister Katarina is only 20. Another first-time participant worth mentioning separately is Zhou Cun Fei, whose $5.9 billion The fortune made on smartphone screens was enough to make her the richest self-made woman in the world. She's one of the 190 women, included in the list, while last year the fair half belonged to 197 positions.
Among the famous people who left the rating are the fashion designer head of Samuel Adams and the head of Dick’s Sporting Goods Edward Stack. The lead in the number of billionaires belongs to the United States - 540 people. They are followed by mainland China with 251 billionaire (69 rich people from Hong Kong go separately) and Germany - 120. Billionaire fortune holders from Russia 77 people (11 less, than last year), and in Brazil - 23 (versus 31). The Forbes Billionaires Ranking is a snapshot of global wealth.
The richest people in the world
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Compared to last year, there have been changes in the list of the 20 richest people on the planet, during which only Bill Gates (No. 1) and Warren Buffett (No. 3) retained their positions. The owner of the fashion brand Zara, Spaniard Armancio Ortega, moved from fourth to second place, swapping places with Carlos Slim Helu, the Mexican tycoon who lost more than anyone else last year - $27.1 billion
Jeff Bezos Amazon and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, both successful in amassing wealth in the past year, entered the top 10 richest for the first time, while Warren Buffett's Brazilian partner Jorge Paulo Lehmann and investor from China Wang Jianlin- the owner of AMC Entertainment Holdings, which is planning to acquire the film company Legendary Entertainment - entered the top 20 for the first time.
The first 20 participants in the rating account for $827 billion, What $73 billion (8%) less, than the total capital of last year's top 20.
Retired
Falling commodities, stock market chaos and a fragile global economy have weakened the financial health of many of the world's richest people. Over the past year 221 billionaires dropped out of the ranking; not since 2009 - when the credit crisis contributed to the expulsion 355 participants from the club of owners of nine-digit fortunes - so many people did not leave the rating at once.
China suffered the most losses - 42 ex-members, followed by the USA, where 25 billionaires switched to former status. In Brazil it became for 23 billionaires less in Russia - at 19, in India - at 15, so the term “BRICS economy” has a new meaning.
Photo: Moacyr Lopes Junior/FolhaPress
Capital in 2015: $1 billion
Current: $800 million
Sales of luxury fashion goods are declining following a decline in demand in markets in China, Russia and the rest of the world. This also damaged the fortunes of Birch, the founder of the fashion label of the same name.
Capital in 2015: $1.3 billion
Current: $840 million
And here comes the hangover. As beer's share of the alcohol market declined, the father of American brewing (his company, Boston Beer, produces the Samuel Adams brand) watched his fortunes diminish—by 39% in total.
Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint via Getty Images
Capital in 2015: $1.4 billion
Current capital: $750 million
The first ethanol billionaire, originally from Brazil, runs the publicly traded Cosan, a conglomerate based in Sao Paulo. The abundance of oil has played against both alternative fuels and fuel additives; Cosan shares are down 62% year-over-year.
Capital in 2015: $1 billion
Current: $930 million
Previously, India's only self-made female billionaire founded Biocon Ltd., the country's largest publicly traded biopharmaceutical company. Its shares have fallen nearly 20% since January, which occurs during times of market turbulence, despite strong third-quarter earnings.
Capital in 2015: $1.7 billion each
Current: $870 million each
The German brothers (Oliver pictured) behind Rocket Internet, notorious for cloning the ideas of prominent tech firms (Zappos, Blue Apron, etc.), have seen their company's share price nearly halve since its IPO in October 2014.
Capital in 2015: $1 billion
Current: $480 million
Federal investigations, earnings revisions and negative publicity over drug price hikes have eroded pharmaceutical Valeant's capital. The company's CEO, Pearson, also in poor health, recently returned from a long sick leave.
Who stayed, who came, who left
The membership lists of the global billionaires' club are in a constant state of flux, as the history of the last decade shows, with uninvited guests enjoying their newfound status while those unlucky (by billionaire standards, of course) peer through the door.
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Coming out to bow
Notable Newcomer
The debut of Les Misérables in 1985 in London's West End marked the end of one act and the beginning of another in Mackintosh's life. "Only after that,- he says. - People saw that you could make more money from musicals than from movies."
Mackintosh produced a slew of musical blockbusters, including The Phantom of the Opera and Miss Saigon. He has a stake in Phantom and Cats, as well as full rights to Les Misérables and Miss Saigon, meaning he receives royalties every time the professionals produce any of those musicals. In addition, he owns eight theaters in the West End and 75% at Music Theater International, the largest licensor of Broadway shows. All this together makes him the owner of a fortune of $1.2 billion
“You never know when the money will come and when it will go,” says McIntosh, 69, who started his career as a stagehand on a weekly salary $30. - I'm more surprised than anyone." His next big venture is likely to be a success: in 2017, he's bringing the Broadway sensation Hamilton to the West End.
Dollar days
In numbers
A rising dollar has wiped billions out of the pockets of the world's richest people, and countries with heavily energy-linked economies such as Russia, Mexico and Brazil have suffered double-digit declines in the past year. China's slowing economy and Europe's slow recovery made the Japanese yen the only major currency to strengthen against the US dollar.
Young guns
The richest under 40
36 - A record number of billionaires under 40 who made their fortunes are self-made. Their combined net worth is $125.5 billion Half of them come from technology startups called "unicorns" - privately held firms with an estimated value of $1 billion or more.
Adam Newman ($1.5 billion)
Where did the interest come from? Newman to shared office spaces? Possibly from the agricultural commune (kibbutz) in Israel where he grew up. WeWork, which Newman, 36, founded in New York in 2010 with Miguel McKelvey can now be rightfully proud 40 thousand users collective offices in 16 cities; The company's value is estimated at $10 billion
Name | Age
Capital, Company
Evan Spiegel | 25
$2.1 billion, Snapchat
Bobby Murphy | 27
$1.8 billion, Snapchat
Dustin Moskowitz | 31
$8.9 billion, Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg | 31
$44.6 billion, Facebook
Nathan Blecharczyk | 32
$3.3 billion, Airbnb
Ryan Graves | 32
$1.5 billion, Uber
Elizabeth Holmes | 32
$3.6 billion, Theranos
Drew Houston | 32
$1 billion, Dropbox
Wang Yue | 32
$1.1 billion, online games
Binny Bansal | 33
$1.2 billion, Flipkart
Eduardo Saverin | 33
$6.2 billion, Facebook
Kirill Shamalov | 33
$1.2 billion, oil industry
Evan Sharp | 33
$1 billion, Pintrest
Ben Silberman | 33
$1.6 billion, Pintrest
Cheng Wei | 33
$1 billion, taxi calling app
Sachin Bansal | 34
$1.2 billion, Flipkart
Brian Chesky | 34
$3.3 billion, Airbnb
Joe Gebbia | 34
$3.3 billion, Airbnb
Frank Wang | 35
$3.6 billion, DJI
Mike Cannon-Brookes | 36
Scott Farquhar | 36
$1.4 billion, business software
Orion Hindawi | 36
$1 billion, software
$1.5 billion, WeWork
Sean Parker | 36
$2.4 billion, Facebook
Markus Persson | 36
$1.3 billion, Minecraft
Cai Xiaozhu | 36
$1.2 billion, parts for electronic equipment
Zhang Banxin | 36
$1.3 billion, after-school education
Garrett Kamp | 37
$6.2 billion, Uber
Robert Pera | 37
$2 billion, equipment for wireless networks
Naruatsu Baba | 38
$1.2 billion, games for smartphones
Jack Dorsey | 39
$1 billion, Twitter
Travis Kalanick | 39
$6.2 billion, Uber
Li Weiwei | 39
$1.3 billion, online games
Wu Gang | 39
$1.3 billion, cash management
Zhou Yahui | 39
$2.3 billion, online games
Frank Wang ($3.6 billion)
Wang, 35, is the world's first billionaire to make his fortune from drones, having founded SZ Dajiang Innovation Technology, also known as DJI, in a university dorm room in Hong Kong; now the company is standing $8 billion and takes 75% share of a rapidly developing market.
Evan Spiegel ($2.1 billion)
The 25-year-old Snapchat co-founder is the youngest self-made billionaire. The messaging app he created, whose fast-disappearing feature prompted Hillary Clinton's tongue-in-cheek endorsement, raised funding last May based on its value. at $16 billion.(The net worth of the other co-founder, 27-year-old Bobby Murphy estimated at $1.8 billion).
Jack Dorsey ($1 billion)
Facing the open market can be a daunting task - and doubly so when you're running two companies. Both companies owned Dorsey- Twitter and Square, which deals with electronic payments, have recently seen their share prices fall. Twitter's user growth has stalled, and Square has yet to convince the market that it is still worth what private investors once valued it at.
Orion Hindawi ($1 billion)
Tanium, an information security company founded by Hindawi in 2007 with his billionaire father, provides real-time threat detection to clients such as Amazon and Visa. Orion, now 36, is serving as CEO while Tanium mulls an IPO.
Donald Trump White House
Real estate
Undoubtedly a new hotel Trump in DC it's going to be huge.
Whether Trump wins the 2016 election or not, he's guaranteed prime real estate in Washington, D.C. next year—on Pennsylvania Avenue of all places. In September (two years ahead of schedule), the people's billionaire will open the Trump International Hotel, located in the historic old post office building, just a few blocks from the White House.
It will not only have a presidential celebration hall with an area of 13.2 thousand sq. feet(it will become the largest luxury hall in the capital). Among 263 rooms there is room for three presidential suites, the largest of which will occupy 6.3 thousand sq. feet- approximately 8 times more than the Oval Office of the real White House.
Forbes@100
Forbes released its first ranking of the world's billionaires along with a special 50-page report: “A billion dollars seems like a good number to draw the line between wealth and great wealth. How someone managed to make or keep a billion dollars can likely tell a story about how the world works.” The issue featured both well-known names (Kerry Packer) and lesser known (queen of mail orders from Germany Greta Schickedanz) however, representatives of royal families were excluded (King of Saudi Arabia Fahd) and dictators (Kim Il Sung).
Total 24 countries were the birthplace of billionaires - today they are 67. There was not a single billionaire in China and Russia, and only one in India. One thing has remained constant: America has always had the largest number of nine-figure wealth owners. In 1987 in the USA there was 49 billionaires; Japan followed from 24; behind them is Germany (13), United Kingdom (7), Hong Kong and Canada (6 each).
“State borders still satisfy politicians, but they no longer limit business people.”
Internal reshuffles in Kazakhstan
$1.5 billion- the total fortune of five Kazakhstanis from the Forbes list of billionaires decreased by so much: from $10.8 billion in 2015 up to $9.3 billion in 2016. Everyone became poorer to varying degrees - by the amount from $100 million to $700 million.
For the third year in a row, he closes the list of Kazakhstani participants in the Forbes rating with a fortune $1.5 billion However, now he is in fourth or fifth place, having lost more than the rest of our billionaires in a year. The second and third positions are also divided among themselves Kulibayev couple with $4 billion total family wealth, decreased by $200 million The richest businessman in Kazakhstan has remained for three years now - $2.3 billion, missing for the year $300 million
Illustration: Murat Dilmanov
1/771 Status (last year): $2.3 billion ($2.6 billion) Age: 58 years old MMC, banks, telecom, hotel businessIn May 2015, the VimpelCom group of companies and Bulat Utemuratov entered into a new agreement. As a result, the latter’s share in the subsidiaries of the Group of Companies in Kazakhstan (KaR-Tel LLP) changed - from 28.5 to 25% and Kyrgyzstan (Sky Mobile LLC) - from 28.5 to 49.9%. According to the agreement, changes also affected the ownership structure - now both companies are managed by a holding company from Switzerland, and not from Cyprus. The put option that Utemuratov had and the buy option that belonged to VimpelCom were also cancelled.
In July-August 2015, the group's subsidiaries - VimpelCom Kazakhstan Holding AG and VimpelCom Kyrgyzstan Holding AG - paid dividends to Utemuratov in the amount of $104.28 million and $22.8 million, respectively.
His management company Verny Capital, which owns the Ritz-Carlton hotels in Vienna and Moscow, is building the first “green” Talan Towers complex in Astana, costing $350 million, where the future Ritz-Carlton Astana will be located. It will also house the headquarters of the investment company itself, the regional office of Glencore Xstrata and residential apartments.
For the first time, Bulat Utemuratov was included in the Forbes list after the sale of ATFBank to the Italian banking holding UniCredit in 2007 for $2.1 billion. In 2013, he sold Kazzinc to the transnational trader Glencore Xstrata and the Samruk-Kazyna National Welfare Fund.
Utemuratov heads the Kazakhstan Tennis Federation and is on the board of directors of the international tennis association ITF.
In September 2015 implemented for $300 million in cash put option 7.45% shares Polymetal (partially owned by Russian billionaire Alexander Nesis), received a year earlier for the Kyzyl project deal.
Son-in-law of the President of Kazakhstan on a parity basis with his wife Dinara Kulibaeva controls People's Bank through JSC Holding Group ALMEX. The list of his major assets also includes Almaty International Airport, KazStroyService and oil producing companies controlled from the offshore zone of Singapore through Steppe Capital Pte Ltd.
Kulibayev is a member of the board of directors of OJSC Gazprom, heads the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the association of companies in the energy and mining sector KazEnergy, the National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Kazakhstan Boxing Federation.
The daughter of the President of Kazakhstan, together with her husband Timur Kulibayev, owns a bank, oil production, oil trading, aviation and other assets. Head of the National Education Foundation Nursultan Nazarbayev, is a member of the board of directors of JSC “KazUMOiMYA” (Almaty Foreign Languages), as well as the chairman of the board of directors of JSC “Kazakhstan-British Technical University”.
In June 2015, Alijan Ibragimov received 40%
in the Jerooy project - the second largest gold deposit in Kyrgyzstan - from the Russian Platinum group Musa Bazhaev to settle a lawsuit with Visor Holding
A subsidiary of Russian Platinum, the Vostok-geoldobycha company, won a license to develop the field at a starting price $100 million Resolution of the legal dispute was an obligation under the terms of the competition.
The amount of Visor Holding's claim against the government of Kyrgyzstan was $548 million- for revocation of the license to develop the field. In August 2015, a tripartite settlement agreement was signed between the government, Vostok-Geoldobycha and Visor Holding. The details of the deal were not disclosed, but it is obvious that Karibzhanov received some kind of compensation.
In August, Chinese Geo-Jade Petroleum for $340.5 million bought from International Mineral Resources II B.V. (IMR), where Ibragimov owns 33%,
Oil JSC "Kozhan" Now this company is 100%"daughter" JSC "Maten Petroleum".
In the first half of 2015, the sale of the Serov Ferroalloy Plant (SZF) and the Saranovsk Rudnaya mine to the Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant (CHEMK) was completed. The Eurasian group, according to one of the owners of CHEMK Yuriy Antipov, received for two assets $220 million
The same ENRC group, of which Ibragimov is a co-owner, is suing Indian billionaire Pramod Agarwal on charges of non-payment by the latter $220 million for a share in the Brazilian project “Zamin”.
Vladimir Kim remains the majority shareholder in both entities of the reorganized Kazakhmys - 33,4% in Kaz Minerals Plc, listed on the London Stock Exchange, and 70% at Kazakhmys Corporation LLP. In December 2015, two Kaz Minerals Plc deposits - Aktogay and Bozshakol - were launched and produced their first copper.
The list included 1,810 people. Their combined wealth is $6.48 trillion, $570 billion less than a year earlier.
We present the lists of the 10 richest people in the world and the 10 richest Russians.
Forbes World Ranking 2016
1. Bill Gates. Net worth: $75 billion
Change for the year: -$4.2 billion
states: Microsoft
Age: 60
Country: USA
Bill Gates is again at the top of the Forbes global list for the 17th time in the last 22 years. 20% of Gates' wealth this year came from the 3% of Microsoft shares he owns. His other investments include investments in Canadian National Railway, American engineering company Deere & Co., waste management company Republic Services, and Ecolab.
2. Amancio Ortega. Net worth: $67 billion
Change for the year: +$2.5 billion
condition: Zara
Age: 79
Country: Spain
Amancio Ortega is the richest man in Europe and the richest retailer in the world. Between 2009 and 2014, Ortega became $45 billion richer thanks to the rapid growth in the value of shares of his management company Inditex. Over the years, the founder of Zara has received billions of dollars in investments, but he used most of the funds not for expensive purchases, but returned them to business.
3. Warren Buffett. Net worth: $60.8 billion
Change for the year: -$11.9 billion
fortune: Berkshire Hathaway
Age: 85
Country: USA
In 2015, Buffett's investment empire, Berkshire Hathaway, made the biggest deal in its history, purchasing steelmaker Precision Castparts. The investment holding company bought it for $37 billion. Berkshire Hathaway, the fifth most profitable corporation in the United States, owns Geico, Dairy Queen and Fruit of the Loom, and invests in Wells Fargo, IBM and Coca-Cola. By 2015, the once modest enterprise had grown into the fourth largest corporation in the world by market capitalization, worth $335 billion.
4. Carlos Slim Helu. Net worth: $50 billion
Change for the year: -$27.1 billion
states: telecommunications
Age: 76
Country: Mexico
Elu is the owner of the television operator America Movil and the largest shareholder of the publishing house The New York Times. In January 2015, he increased his share in the influential publishing house to 17% and retained options for further expansion. The billionaire controls the industrial conglomerate Grupo Carso, the financial Grupo Financiero Inbursa and the infrastructure Ideal.
5. Jeff Bezos. Net worth: $45.2 billion
Change for the year: +$10.4 billion
states: Amazon.com
Age: 52
Country: USA
Jeff Bezos successfully runs three companies. In November 2015, his aerospace company Blue Origin successfully conducted a controlled landing of the reusable BE-3 rocket. Amazon earned a record $107 billion in 2015. Bazos also owns the American publishing house The Washington Post.
6. Mark Zuckerberg. Net worth: $44.6 billion
Change for the year: +$11.2 billion
states: Facebook
Age: 31
Country: USA
2015 was as good as ever for Zuckerberg. Facebook's rising price has brought it an additional $11.2 billion to last year's net worth. Facebook's revenue continues to grow, in addition, Zuckerberg is betting on the Oculus Rift virtual reality helmets, although the gadget itself is still at the prototype stage. And the WhatsApp messenger, purchased in 2014 for a record $19 billion, grew by another 1 billion users in February alone.
7. Larry Ellison. Net worth: $43.6 billion
Change for the year: -$10.7 billion
states: Oracle
Age: 71
Country: USA
Larry Ellison left the post of CEO of Oracle in 2014, retaining the positions of director of technology development and chairman of the board of directors. A talented software developer, early in his career he worked for the CIA, after which he founded Oracle in 1977. In 2015, Ellison announced that Oracle would develop cloud software and would soon become Amazon's competitor in this area.
8. Michael Bloomberg. Net worth: $40 billion
Change for the year: +$4.5 billion
fortune: Bloomberg LP
Age: 74
Country: USA
In 2015, Bloomberg returned to business as CEO of the financial information agency he founded, Bloomberg LP. He intends to breathe new life into the companies that bear his name. First of all, the billionaire downsized his staff. The remaining journalists now work more on their profile - on financial and business news.
9-10. Charles Koch. Net worth: $39.6 billion
Change for the year: -$3.3 billion
Age: 80
Country: USA
Brothers Charles and David Koch are among the most influential figures in American business, philanthropy and politics. The Kochs jointly own the family holding Koch Industries with revenues of $115 billion. The diversified holding is engaged in the construction of pipelines, oil refining, the production of building materials, paper towels and cups and many other goods. Charles Koch has served as chairman of the board of directors at Koch Industries since 1967. overseeing intense business growth.
9-10. David Koch
Net worth: $39.6 billion
Change for the year: -$3.3 billion
states: diversified/diversified
Age: 75
Country: USA
David Koch, on a parity basis with his older brother Charles, owns the diversified holding Koch Industries - the second largest private US company after Cargill, worth about $100 billion.
Forbes Russian ranking 2016
1. Leonid Mikhelson. Net worth: $14.4 billion
Change for the year: + $2.7 billion
Leonid Mikhelson is the main shareholder of the largest independent gas producer in Russia Novatek and the petrochemical holding Sibur. He also owns a minority stake in Promsvyazbank. Mikhelson's partner at Novatek and Sibur is Gennady Timchenko.
2. Mikhail Fridman. Net worth: $13.3 billion
Change for the year: - $1.3 billion
Together with his long-time business partners from his student days, German Khan and Alexey Kuzmichev, he controls Alfa Group, Russia's largest financial and industrial investment group. Among Alpha's largest projects are the second largest Russian retailer X5, shares in the telecommunications holdings VimpelCom and Turkcell.
3. Alisher Usmanov. Net worth: $12.5 billion
Change for the year: - $1.9 billion
Alisher Usmanov, who has topped the Russian Forbes list for several years in a row, runs one of the most extensive business empires in the country. Among his assets are the metallurgical holding Metalloinvest, the second largest mobile operator in Russia Megafon and the publishing house Kommersant. The billionaire is also a co-owner of the London football club Arsenal.
4. Vladimir Potanin. Net worth: $12.1 billion
Change for the year: - $3.3 billion
Last year's leader of the Russian Forbes list, Vladimir Potanin, is the owner and president of the Interros management company, one of the largest in Russia (owns stakes in MMC Norilsk Nickel, the ProfEstate group, the ProfMedia holding and the Rosa Khutor company), general Director of MMC Norilsk Nickel.
5. Gennady Timchenko. Net worth: $11.4 billion
Change for the year: + $0.7 billion
Timchenko's assets today are shares in the petrochemical holding Sibur, the railway operator Transoil and the construction group Stroytransgaz. The businessman also chairs the board of directors of the Kontinental Hockey League and serves as president of the St. Petersburg hockey club SKA, winner of the 2015 Gagarin Cup.
6. Alexey Mordashov. Net worth: $10.9 billion
Change for the year: - $2.1 billion
Alexey Mordashov, the main owner of the metallurgical giant Severstal, left his post as CEO of the company in 2015, having been at the helm for 19 years. In addition to the steel industry, Mordashov’s business empire extends to tourism (operator TUI), gold mining (Nordgold), and heavy engineering (Power Machines).
7. Viktor Vekselberg. Net worth: $10.5 billion
Change for the year: - $3.7 billion
The Russian authorities entrusted Viktor Vekselberg with one of the most ambitious projects - the Skolkovo innovation city: the billionaire heads the fund of the same name, which oversees the development of the national analogue of Silicon Valley. Vekselberg has a 6.2 percent stake in Bank of Cyprus. Its industrial conglomerate Renova is a strategic investor in the Swiss market. Among the main assets are shares in the industrial groups Oerlikon and Sulzer. In 2015, Vekselberg spent almost $1 billion to double his stake in Sulzer, to 63%.
8. Vladimir Lisin. Net worth: $9.3 billion
Change for the year: - $2.3 billion
Vladimir Lisin made his fortune in steel and shipping. The billionaire controls the logistics holding UCL, which owns the First Freight Company. In the 1990s, he became a partner in the Trans-World Group, which in a few years grew into a leading Russian exporter of aluminum and steel. When dividing assets in 2000, it naturally took ownership of the industry giant, the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works.
9. Vagit Alekperov. Net worth: $8.9 billion
Change for the year: - $3.3 billion
Vagit Alekperov heads Lukoil, Russia's largest independent oil producer, which is exploring the West Qurna-2 field in Iraq, one of the most promising in the world. In 2016, the company plans to invest $1.5 billion in the development of its projects.
10. German Khan. Net worth: $8.7 billion
Change for the year: + $0.8 billion
German Khan, together with Mikhail Fridman and Alexey Kuzmichev, owns Alfa Group, the largest private financial and industrial group in Russia. He worked for a long time as the executive director of the oil company TNK-BP, which he left in March 2013, after the 50% share of Alfa and its partners was bought by the state-owned Rosneft for $28 billion. Khan gained $3.3 billion from the deal. Alfa gained control of TNK and created a joint venture with British BP. Other assets of the group include mobile operator VimpelCom and retailer X5 Retail Group.
