Frenchman Bernard Arnault, president of the luxury group LVMH, has become the world's second fortune, surpassing the co-founder of Microsoft Bill Gates, but remaining behind another American, the founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos, according to scores made by the Forbes magazine and the Bloomberg agency.
Forbes, which publishes on its website real-time assessments of the fortunes of billionaires, Wednesday Wednesday at mid-day assessed that of Bernard Arnault, 70 years, 105.1 billion against 103.7 billion for Bill Gates. The founder of Amazon is still the richest man in the world with a fortune estimated at $ 164.8 billion.
In front of Bill Gates
Since Tuesday, the ranking made by Bloomberg also places Bernard Arnault in front of Bill Gates. The latter leaves for the first time the first two places since the creation of this record seven years ago, says the agency.
According to Bloomberg, the French has a fortune of 108 billion dollars, with a gain of 39 billion since the beginning of the year, the largest profit among the 500 richest people in the world in 2019.
In the Bloomberg ranking, Bernard Arnault is short of Bill Gates, whose fortune is estimated at $ 107 billion, both exceeded by the 125 billion boss of Amazon. Unlike Forbes, Bloomberg has already withdrawn $ 38 billion from the fortune of Mr. Bezos, the amount of the agreement of his recent divorce, finalized in early July. His ex-wife, MacKenzie Bezos, is also ranked 22nd in Bloomberg.
Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg
In both lists, investor Warren Buffett and Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg top the top 5. With fortunes fluctuating with the course of the stock market, these rankings are by nature likely to change from one day to another.