The 10 Biggest Billionaire Gainers Of 2021
t’s been a great year to get rich, especially if you already were. Of the 2,660 billionaires in the world, a staggering 1,800 are wealthier today than they were on New Year’s Day 2021, according to. Some have added hundreds of millions of dollars to their net worths. Others have gained billions.
Then there’s another group: the elite of the elite, who have added tens of billions of dollars to their already-massive fortunes in the span of a single year. In all, the top ten biggest gainers of 2021 are a collective $458 billion richer this year—accounting for over a quarter of thegained by the planet’s billionaires from January 1 through December 10, 2021.
Six U.S. moguls are among this group of top ten gainers, all hailing from the tech or tech-adjacent industries. The S&P 500 has climbed by 27% and the Nasdaq Composite has jumped by 23%; these six American billionaires, who added a total of $304 billion to their fortunes, have trounced the market, growing their net worths by 51% on average.
With many markets surging around the globe, four other countries or territories had a big billionaire gainer in 2021: India, France, China and Hong Kong.
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