Amancio Ortega

In 2024, it was another good year for the world’s “billionaires” club. Their combined fortune grew by $370 billion – an amount greater than the value of a banking giant like Bank of America ($308 billion).

Forbes top-30 listed billionaire Wang Jianlin (29th) saw his wealth dissipate by a mere (!) 3.6 bln US dollars in just 24 hours, after the crash in the Chinese stock markets on Monday.