Imagine being Facebook founder/CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and waking up one morning to see that your net worth grew by $12.4 billion. Well this is exactly what happened to billionaires like Zuckerberg and the Google guys according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index which also shows that Microsoft founder Bill Gates is well on his way to hitting the $100 billion mark.
The aggregate net worth of the world’s top billionaires stood at $3.7 trillion at the market close on Dec. 31, according to the ranking. The biggest gains came in the technology industry, which soared 28 percent during the year. Of the 300 people who appeared on the final ranking of 2013, only 70 registered a net loss for the 12-month period.
“The rich will keep getting richer in 2014,” John Catsimatidis, the billionaire founder of real estate and energy conglomerate Red Apple Group Inc., said in a telephone interview from his New York office. “Interest rates will remain low, equity markets will keep rising, and the economy will grow at less than 2 percent.”
source›› bloomberg
