Global billionaires lost nearly $2 trillion this year. Not these five winners, who are $93 billion richer than last year.
his past year has been a volatile one for the world’s richest people. As a group, the world’s billionaires lost more than $1.9 trillion in wealth, driven primarily by tumbling stock pricesamid the overall downturn, a subset of billionaires bucked the trend. The five biggest gainers of 2022 are together worth over $200 billion – $93 billion more than at the beginning of the year. All five of them hail from Asia.
The biggest gainer by far is Gautam Adani of India, whose Adani Group encompasses a network of publicly traded companies active in power generation, cement, real estate and more. In early, Adani became the richest person in Asia and the tenth richest person in the world worth $90.1 billion. As of mid-December, he ranked as the world’s third richest person.
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