How empty is the treasure chest? For comparison, $38.8 billion is on par with the gross domestic product of Bahrain and Paraguay and lower than the net worth of more than two dozen of the richest people in the world. Naturally, much of those billionaires’ assets are tied up in stocks, rather than liquid assets.
Here’s a list of people with net worth exceeding US cash reserves, according to Bloomberg News Billionaires Index starting Thursday. (Per the news agency’s editorial policy, its billionaire owner, Michael Bloomberg, is not considered for the index. Forbes, however, estimate his net worth to $94.5 billion.)
Bernard Arnault, CEO of the LVMH luxury group: 189 billion dollars
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter: $179 billion
Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon: $139 billion
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft: $125 billion
Larry Ellison, co-founder and executive chairman of Oracle: $116 billion
Steve Ballmer, investor and former Microsoft CEO: $113 billion
Larry Page, co-founder of Google: $112 billion
Warren Buffett, investor: $111 billion
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google: $106 billion
Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook: $92.3 billion
Carlos Slim, investor: $90.3 billion
Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, heiress to the L’Oréal fortune and member of the company’s board: $87.2 billion
Mukesh Ambani, chairman of energy group Reliance Industries: $83.7 billion
Amancio Ortega, founder of the Inditex fashion group: 67.1 billion dollars
Jim Walton, heir to the Walmart fortune: $66.6 billion
Rob Walton, heir to Walmart fortune: $64.9 billion
Alice Walton, heiress to the Walmart fortune: $63.8 billion
Gautam Adani, founder and chairman of the Adani Group conglomerate: $63.4 billion
Jacqueline Mars, heiress and co-owner of candy maker Mars: $61.7 billion
John Mars, heir and chairman of Mars: $61.7 billion
Zhong Shanshan, founder and chairman of Nongfu Spring bottled water company: $61.6 billion
Julia Flesher Koch and family, heirs of businessman David Koch: $60.6 billion
Charles Koch, chief executive officer of industrial conglomerate Koch Industries: $60.4 billion
Michael Dell, CEO and president of Dell Technologies: $53.4 billion
Alain Wertheimer, co-owner and president of Chanel: $45.9 billion
Gérard Wertheimer, co-owner of Chanel: $45.9 billion
Giovanni Ferrero, executive chairman of chocolate and confectionary firm Ferrero Group, and family: $43.6 billion
Zhang Yiming, founder and CEO of technology company ByteDance: $42.3 billion
Phil Knight, co-founder of Nike, and family: $41.5 billion
Klaus-Michael Kühne, Honorary Chairman and Majority Owner of Transportation Company Kuehne+Nagel: $40.9 billion
François Pinault, founder of the Kering luxury group: 39.6 billion dollars
