The 2017 has enriched the world's 500 'ducks' with an additional $ 1,000 billion, holding a total of $ 5.3 trillion (+ 23%, four times more than 2016). According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index to contribute more to the increase, compared to last year, was Jeff Bezos, founder and Amazon's number one. Bezos has earned, also thanks to the performance of the e-commerce giant, 34.2 billion dollars, bringing its fortune to 99.6 billion and becoming the richest in the world. Leave the top of the chart Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, which this year saw its assets of $ 91.3 billion grow by 'only' 8.89 billion.
Third in the ranking we find the American Warren Buffett, head of the US holding Berkshire Hathaway, which boasts assets of 85 billion dollars, leavened in 2017 of 11.8 billion. Fourth the founder of Zara, the Spaniard Amancio Ortega, with 75.5 billion dollars, increased by 3.4 billion. Quintus Mark Zuckerberg, owner and creator of Facebook, with assets of 72.6 billion dollars (+22.6 billion in 2017).
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