BillionairesTop 10 richest Britons
The British super-rich club has suddenly shrunk. He lost 20 percent of its members within a year. That is at least true after the conversion into US dollars. In 2018 and 2019, Forbes had 54 billionaires in the United Kingdom. In 2020, the business magazine only had 45 super-rich.
In addition, five of the ten richest billionaires have become “poorer” in the past year. Some multibillionaires, on the other hand, managed to increase their wealth despite Brexit and the looming corona pandemic.
British billionaires in crisis
The crisis has announced itself. In the Brexit year 2019, the exact number of billionaires of the previous year was reached. However, their total wealth fell by a fifth. On average, each Briton on the list was worth $ 3.4 billion. At least this per capita value remained stable in this year’s ranking. Incidentally, Queen Elizabeth II is not included in the rich ranking. “Forbes” ignores monarchs (and dictators) because it is difficult to separate their private wealth from that of the state.
These are the richest Britons in 2020:
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# 10 Clive Calder
Clive Calder (left) was able to easily increase his wealth during the crisis. The founder of the influential record label Jive Records was worth around 5.2 billion dollars in April 2020 according to “Forbes” estimates. In the 2019 ranking it was 4.9 billion. Compared to 2015, Calder could even double his fortune. In the global ranking it now ranks 315th. The Brit, who lives on the Cayman Islands, had sold his music company Zomba Group to Bertelsmann for 2.7 billion dollars in 2002. The 73-year-old was ahead of British investors Chrisopher Hohen (330th place) and Joe Lewis (375) and Bet365 heiress Denise Coates (383). Entrepreneur Richard Branson came 17th among the British with 3.4 billion (2018: 4.1 billion).
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# 9 Laurence Graff & family
In ninth place among the richest Brits there is also a self-made billionaire. According to Forbes, Laurence Graff left school at the age of 14 and started an apprenticeship at a London jeweler. With his company Graff Diamonds International he rose to become one of the leading diamond dealers in the world. The Sultan of Brunei is said to be one of his customers. Gemstones seem to be comparatively crisis-proof. “Forbes” estimated the family fortune of Graff, who lives in Switzerland, at $ 5.3 billion. That was $ 200 million less than last year and was 308th worldwide.
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# 8 Robert Miller
Robert Miller is getting richer and richer despite Brexit and the Corona crisis. The Hong Kong entrepreneur, who is a British citizen, has grown his fortune year after year since 2015. In 2019, according to Forbes, it was $ 4.8 billion. In 2020, Miller came to $ 5.5 billion and was ranked 293rd worldwide. In 1960, the 87-year-old was one of the co-founders of Duty Free Shoppers, a company specializing in luxury products. DFS has been part of LVMH since 1997. Miller also maintains excellent contacts with the international (money) nobility through his children’s husbands. His three daughters are Pia Getty, Alexandra von Fürstenberg and Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece.
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# 7 James Dyson
Vacuuming alone is no longer enough. James Dyson is increasingly concentrating on beauty products at his home appliance company and sells, for example, a high-tech curling iron for around 500 euros. The strategy seems to be working. The British inventor was able to increase his fortune slightly from 5.7 to 5.9 billion dollars. That was the highest level since 2011. The 73-year-old climbed one place in the ranking for the United Kingdom. He is currently the 268th richest person worldwide.
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# 6 Ian & Richard Livingstone
Ian and Richard Livingstone (photo) also went up one place. According to Forbes, the brothers’ fortunes grew by 200 million to 6.4 billion dollars (237th worldwide). The business of her real estate company London & Regional was apparently going well until April 7, 2020. What it looks like after the Corona crisis remains to be seen. The company owns more than 45 Holiday Inn Express hotels across Europe. In London it can be more exclusive. The brothers invested in posh hotels, apartments and shops in the capital. In Panama, along with the Colombian billionaire Jaime Gilinski Bacal, they are among the builders of the luxury estate Panama Pacifico.
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# 4 David Reuben and Simon Reuben
Forbes ranks Ian and Richard Livingstone in sixth place among the richest Britons with a combined fortune. The brothers David (81) and Simon (78) Reuben, on the other hand, each have their own place in the ranking. With $ 6.8 billion each, they come in 216th place worldwide. That means fourth place in the UK, as in the previous year. However, the wealth of entrepreneurs has fallen by around a tenth since 2019. Compared to 2018, it has even more than halved. The brothers, who were born in India, became extremely rich, among other things, trading metals and real estate. In 2016, they sold their shares in the data network company Global Switch for almost 3 billion dollars to a Chinese consortium.
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# 8 Michael Platt
When it came to the account balance, there was only one direction for Michael Platt: up. The co-founder of BlueCrest Personal-Financial.com Management has nearly tripled his fortune in the past few years. In 2018 he was named Best Earning Hedge Fund Manager of the Year by Forbes. There was no more growth in 2020. In return, Platt could at least keep his fortune of $ 8 billion. The 52-year-old is by far the youngest representative on this list.
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# 2 James Ratcliffe
James Ratcliffe, however, had to post losses. The founder of Ineos, one of the largest chemical groups in the world, fell in the “Forbes” ranking from 12.1 to 11.0 billion dollars. But that is still almost ten times the amount with which he entered the list in 2013. As in the previous year, the 67-year-old ranks second among the richest British people and is again the richest individual in the UK. Because first place goes to siblings again.
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# 1 Hinduja brothers
The brothers Srichand, Gopichand (l.), Prakash (r.) And Ashok Hinduja continue to hold the title of the richest people in Great Britain together. However, their combined assets have fallen by around a quarter to $ 12.9 billion within a year. The brothers owe their wealth to the Indian conglomerate Hinduja-Group (finance, telecommunications, oil). The London-based company was founded by her father in 1914. Srichand Hinduja is the chairman of the board.
