Billionaires, who doubled their fortunes during the pandemic period, did not make a good start to 2022. Since the beginning of January, only one in 10 billionaires has been able to increase their wealth. Others lost tens of billions of dollars.
The world’s richest list, which includes the founders of the world’s largest companies, the most successful investors and the most successful businessmen, doubled its wealth with the coronavirus epidemic. The research we shared recently, the top 10 of the richest list, during the pandemic period. he doubled his fortune had revealed.
But the year 2022 hasn’t started at all for the vast majority of billionaires. So much so that, according to the data in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, there are 10 billionaires at the top of the list. only one managed to increase his fortune. He is the most successful investor in the world. Warren Buffett was. The remaining 9 names have lost at least $7.4 billion since the beginning of January alone.
How has the wealth of the 10 richest people in the world changed in the last month?
- Elon Musk: $273 billion (-32.9 billion dollars)
- Jeff Bezos: $165 billion (-$27.4 billion)
- Bernard Arnault: $157 billion (-$21 billion)
- Bill Gates: $127 billion ($-11 billion)
- Larry Page: $114 billion ($14.6 billion)
- Mark Zuckerberg: $112 billion ($-13.2 billion)
- Warren Buffett: $112 billion (+$2.56 billion)
- Sergey Brin: 110 billion dollars (-14 billion dollars)
- Steve Ballmer: $104 billion ($-16 billion)
- Larry Ellison: $99.7 billion ($-7.43 billion)
According to the information in the list, the name that has lost the most in its wealth since the beginning of January Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla it happened. Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle, was the one who lost the least among the losers on the list. When we look at the Bloomberg list in general, we see that especially the billionaires of technology giants are experiencing losses. This is attributed to the decline in share value in technology companies.