Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Don’t be discouraged if you as a retail investor experienced ‘boncos’ over the past year. This is because the 25 richest people in the world have lost a total of US$200 billion or the equivalent of IDR 2,982 trillion (assuming an exchange rate of IDR 14,912/US$) in 2022.
It did, citing the list Forbes’ 2023 World Billionairesbringing the wealth of the 25 richest people down to US$2.1 trillion (Rp31,315 trillion) as of March 10.
Launch CNBC Internationalboth the number of billionaires and the volume of their wealth also fell over the past year.
A total of 254 people will lose their billionaire status by 2022.
You name it, founder platform Cryptocurrencies that were swept up in the Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) scandal and musician Kanye West were among those dropping out of the list.
Meanwhile, the 2,640 billionaires on the list lost US$500 billion (Rp.7,456 trillion).
Despite the Twitter drama and the decline in Tesla’s stock, eccentric entrepreneur Elon Musk didn’t suffer the biggest losses last year.
In fact, boss ecommerce and cloud computing platform Jeff Bezos lost his net worth by up to US $ 57 billion (Rp. 849.98 trillion) as Amazon’s share price plunged 38% as of March 10.
Musk himself ‘only’ lost US $ 39 billion, but his position dropped to rank 2.
The boss of the LVMH luxury bag conglomerate Bernard Arnault is finally ranked first in the world’s richest people after successfully adding to his wealth coffers of up to US $ 53 billion last year. This is the first time Arnault has been ranked as the richest person.
The following is a list of the world’s 10 richest people as of March 2023, according to Forbes.
1. Bernard Arnault & family
• Net worth: US$211 billion
• Source of wealth: LVMH (France)
2. Elon Musk
• Net worth: US$180 billion
• Source of wealth: Tesla, SpaceX (USA)
3. Jeff Bezos
• Net worth: US$114 billion
• Source of wealth: Amazon (USA)
4. Larry Ellison
• Net worth: US$107 billion
• Source of wealth: Oracle (USA)
5. Warren Buffett
• Net worth: $106 billion
• Source of wealth: Berkshire Hathaway (US)
6. Bill Gates
• Net worth: $104 billion
• Source of wealth: Microsoft (USA)
7. Michael Bloomberg
• Net worth: $94.5 billion
• Source of wealth: Bloomberg LP (USA)
8. Carlos Slim Helú & family
• Net worth: $93 billion
• Source of wealth: Telecommunications (Mexico)
9. Mukesh Ambani
• Net worth: $83.4 billion
• Source of wealth: Reliance Industries (India)
10. Steve Ballmer
• Net worth: $80.7 billion
• Source of wealth: Microsoft (USA)
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