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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 the magazine's editor-in-chief. 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 up 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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Who are they, the people whose names never leave the pages of Forbes, and whose rapid careers are admired by millions? Who promises to break records in terms of wealth this year and who should we, “mere mortals”, look up to? We present to your attention the TOP 10 richest people in the world 2018 of the year.

10 Michael Bloomberg

The ranking of the world's richest people of 2018 opens with the former mayor of New York, American Michael Bloomberg with a fortune of $47.5 billion. The main source of his income is the Bloomberg LP corporation, which provides information services. Like the vast majority of the richest people on the planet, Bloomberg is actively involved in charity and donates funds to various causes.

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The brother of a person one step higher in our ranking. The 76-year-old man's net worth is $48.3 billion. The main source of profit is the same Koch Industries holding, founded in 1940.
Both brothers are members of the Republican party, which they actively sponsor. They spare no expense on education, in every possible way supporting gifted students who come from poor families.

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Eighth place in the list of the richest people in the world 2017 according to Forbes is occupied by American Charles Koch, whose fortune was estimated at 48.3 billion. Together with his brother, this 81-year-old man owns Koch Industries, a diversified holding company that has grown into a tiny oil refinery founded by his father. In addition to his business interests, the billionaire, despite his advanced age, is interested in politics and regularly donates funds to charity.

7 Larry Ellison

The 72-year-old American has increased his fortune by $13.3 billion over the past year, bringing his capital to $61 billion.

Mr. Ellison is a famous software developer who, despite his talent, was never able to graduate from university. He was made a billionaire by Oracle, which is now focusing its activities on improving cloud services.

Ellison's hobby is sailing, in which the richest man on the planet willingly invests money. He also spares no expense in charity: last year, the businessman promised the University of California $200 million for the creation of an effective cure for cancer.

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Another representative of the ranking of the richest people in the world in 2017 is a Mexican billionaire with a capital of $65.1 billion. The main source of income for this 77-year-old man is the Telecom company. In addition, Mr. Slim invests in Mexican development, mining, and consumer goods. He also owns 17 percent of The New York Times.

5 Mark Zuckerberg

One of the youngest billionaires in the world, whose net worth is $72.9 billion. The source of such an impressive amount is the world famous social network Facebook, which Mark created at the age of 19, almost 13 years ago.

Today, the billionaire is actively involved in the management of his brainchild and oversees major acquisitions of other Internet giants. Not long ago, the Zuckerberg couple became parents, and therefore they promised to donate 99 percent of their wealth to charity.

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The 80-year-old Spaniard boasts a fortune of $76.4 billion, which has increased by $4.3 billion in the last year alone. Retail brought serious prosperity to this man, and he receives the lion's share of his capital thanks to his ownership of shares in the Zara company, which he and his now deceased wife founded back in 1975.
From dividends alone, Ortega receives $400 million a year, successfully investing the money he earns in real estate.

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The third position in the list of the richest people in the world in 2018, according to Forbes magazine, belongs to businessman Warren Buffett with a fortune of $85.6 billion. The 86-year-old's billions come from Berkshire Hathaway. Buffett's holding company owns a certain percentage of shares in more than 60 companies. The billionaire, who made his first investment at the age of 11, invests in companies such as IBM, Wells Fargo, Coca-Cola and others. Together with Bill Gates, the man founded the Giving Pledge company, to which he promised to donate 99 percent of his capital.

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By the end of 2017, Bill Gates, for the first time in 4 years, lost the title of the richest person on the planet, taking second place in the Forbes ranking. His net worth is estimated at over $90.8 billion. The 61-year-old owner of the IT giant Microsoft created his brainchild 40 years ago, and today he owns 3 percent of the shares of his native corporation. His other investments include Canadian Railways, a well-known American engineering company, Republic Services (a waste recycling company), and the famous auto dealer AutoNation. However, Mr. Gates considers the work of a charitable foundation, created to improve the situation in the healthcare system and help overcome hunger in third world countries, to be a priority area of ​​his activity.

Published the next annual ranking of the richest people in the world. To be included in the list, you must have a net worth of at least $1 billion. This year, 2,208 people from 72 countries meet this requirement. Their total wealth increased by 18% compared to last year and amounted to $9.1 trillion.

Bezos came out on top twice in 2017, according to Forbes, which ranks the fortunes of billionaires in real time.

On July 27, he managed to stay at the top of the list for only a few hours. On October 28, he again broke through to the first line of the rating - this happened after the publication of the company’s quarterly report, the results of which exceeded analysts’ expectations. As a result, Amazon shares rose by 13%, and Bezos' fortune increased by more than $10 billion in just one day.

With a large gap from Bezos, Bill Gates is in second place in the Forbes global ranking - the Microsoft founder's fortune is estimated at $90 billion.

The third position in the global list of rich people is occupied by American investor and founder of Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett with a fortune of $84 billion - the authors of the Forbes rating remind that Buffett promised to allocate 99% of his capital to charity. So far, $32 billion has been allocated for these purposes, the magazine notes.

The Frenchman, who ranks fourth in the ranking, is more than $10 billion behind Buffett. Arnault owns the LVMH Moët Hennessy holding, an empire that includes world-famous brands from Sephora to Sephora. The wealth of the richest Frenchman is estimated at $72 billion. By the way, last year Arnault did not make it into the Forbes top ten.

The top 10 richest people in the world also included Spanish businessman, founder of the Zara chain Amancio Ortega ($70 billion), Mexican TV magnate Carlos Slim ($67.1 billion), CEO and controlling shareholder of Coch Industries Charles and (both $60 billion) . The chairman of the board of directors and chief technology officer closes the top ten with $58.5 billion.

The richest Russians according to Forbes

The magazine named the chairman of the board of directors and owner of a controlling stake Vladimir Lisin as the wealthiest Russian of the year. The Russian entrepreneur's fortune is estimated at $19.1 billion. Over the past year, Lisin managed to add another $3 billion to his wealth and displace last year's leader on the Russian list.

Compared to 2017, Lisin’s position in the global ranking remained unchanged - the businessman still ranks 57th.

Second place in the ranking, as last year, was retained by Chairman of the Board of Directors Alexey with a fortune of $18.7 billion - in 2017 the businessman managed to earn $1.2 billion. This is more than two times less than last year’s figure, when Mordashov increased his personal wealth by $2.7 billion.

Co-owner Leonid Mikhelson, who occupied the first line of the Russian list of the richest people in 2017, lost ground, ending up in third place in the ranking. At the end of 2017, his personal fortune amounted to $18 billion, having decreased by $0.4 billion.

The top 5 wealthiest Russian entrepreneurs also included the president ($16.4 billion, an increase of $1.9 billion) and the owner

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.

 

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