Billionaires who won the most (and lost) in 2018 – 01/01/2019

The markets may have sunk, but that did not stop the creation of many megafunds in 2018.

The popularity of Fortnite, the phenomenon that forced some to enter reeducation due to video game addiction, allowed Tim Sweeney To raise a fortune of $ 7,200 million last year. Autry Stephens owns 11,400 million US dollars after Energy Resources Endeavor has attracted bids evaluating the oil company for 15,000 million US dollars.

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Sweeney and Stephens were alone two of the 31 people entered the Bloomberg billionaires index in 2018, Despite the fact that the intensification of global trade conflicts and the decline of markets have generated a loss of one billion US dollars among the ranking.

Denise Coates, founder and UK executive director of Bet365 online sportsbook This is another addition to the list. Coates is almost 10 times richer than Queen Elizabeth II, according to the rankings.

While Coates had a good year, the turmoil in the markets has led many rich people to get negative numbers. The world's 500 richest people lost 451 billion USD this year, which contrasts with the billion US dollars added to their fortune in 2017.

Next billionaires who won and lost in 2018.

The winners

the billionaires from Singapore they did better in terms of dollars by winning 2.5 billion US dollars. This brought the richest of the country's wealth to a collective net worth of 38,000 million US dollars.

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and the richest man in the world, was the biggest winner of 2018 for the second year in a row. Its net worth increased by approximately US $ 24,000 million to US $ 123,000 million, but nor was it saved from the collapse of the stock markets. After reaching its highest point in September, Bezos saw its fortune fall by some 45,000 million dollars.

Despite the total loss of nearly 76,000 million US dollars Chinese billionaires in 2018, some of the richest in the country managed to increase their badets. This is the case of Lei Jun, founder of smartphone maker Xiaomi. Jun finished second behind Bezos among the biggest winners of the year, adding $ 8.6 billion to his fortune.

Losers

The American billionaires they suffered the biggest loss this year, a collective fall of 76 billion US dollars, largely due to the December stock market crash. Mark Zuckerberg recorded the most noticeable decline in 2018 since Facebook has gone from one crisis to the next. Its net worth has been reduced by nearly US $ 20,000 million, leaving 34 years a fortune of US $ 53 billion.

Chinese Wang Jianlin, Jack Ma and Ma Huateng They are three of the 10 biggest losers this year. Fifty people left the index, including 11 from China or Hong Kong, 9 from the United States and 4 from Russia.

Among those who left the list stand out Andrej Babis, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, whose fortune comes from his chemical and agricultural firm Agrofert, and Russian mogul Oleg Deripaska, whose net worth dropped to record levels when Rusal's shares fell, fearing that the aluminum giant could stop production due to US sanctions.

Sadly 13 billionaires are dead this year, among them Paul Allen from Microsoft, the mogul of real estate in Hong Kong Walter Kwok and Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, owner of the Leicester City Football Club of the English Premier League.