Editor’s note: This article was first published in March 2012, as news about the Forbes 2012 billionaires list. Every ranking and position mentioned is from that year, as is the prediction that this would be the last all-male top 10.
Forbes has just published its ranking of the world’s richest men for 2012. This may be the last time we get to say “the 10 richest men in the world”, because a woman is closing in at number 11: Christy Walton, co-owner of one of the biggest expanding companies of the moment (Wal-Mart).
The top three places haven’t changed from the 2011 ranking, so the three biggest fortunes still belong to Carlos Slim, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. Good news for Spain’s Amancio Ortega, who, in the middle of the economic crisis, has moved up several places to become the fifth-largest fortune in the world.
Source: Forbes
We couldn’t leave out this ranking on a day we’ve devoted entirely to millionaires, with these two articles:
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