According to a study of ABS PvC only 44% of the world's billionaires in 1995. They have preserved their status in 2015. This means that nearly 56% of billionaires have lost his fortune in the last 20 years, it has spent the club of billionaires.
Of course, most of them remain immodestly rich in all paragraphs. The report oabche reveals how easy it is to lose their wealth today as money are closely tied to the capital markets, the global economy and ever-changing technologies.
"The population of billionaires has changed beyond recognition over the last 20 years," the report of the UBS / PwC. "This partly reflects the unusual number of newly billionaires, but we can easily ignore the volatility of great wealth."
And it really is. Much of this year's billionaires have emerged recently. In 1995. there were 289 billionaires, while in 2014. they 1347. This shows that the majority of billionaires "nouveau riche", his fortune relatively soon.
Billionaires kept their wealth for the period 1995g.-2014. Can boast of growth of the overall state of over 1 trillion. dollars. 289 billionaires in 1995. Currently remained 73 126 lost their status because of business problems and crashes, 24 have lost it because of family factors, and 66 have died.
Varosa item is how to preserve wealth, unless, of course, to stay alive? According to experts, the creation of technology company, brings some dividends. Technology sector has doubled its share in the wealth of billionaires - in comparison, in 1995. it was 10 percent and in 2014. - 20%. Creators of companies in the consumer business and retail sales also can not complain - this sector formed 32% of the state of billionaires in 2014.
It turns out that it is best to billionaire US. There is observed the highest growth of wealth in the world.
The report of UBS and PwC predicts that in the future, preservation of billions will become even more difficult given the political attitudes.
"Attitudes against wealth in politics, rising taxes and ever-tightening global regulations are the biggest threat for billionaires," the report said.