The latest ranking of the billionaires (people who have US$ 1,000 million or more) of Forbesreveals that the great fortunes of Peru have contracted this year by adding only US $ 7,800 milliona figure considerably lower than that of 2021, when it reached US $ 11,100 million.
According to the list “The World’s Billonaires 2022”, the fall in fortunes is due to the fact that only three Peruvians appeared in the ranking this year: Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor, Anna Maria Brescia Y Eduardo Hochschild. Six appeared in the 2021 edition of the survey.
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Thus, in 2022, they left the list of billionaires Vito Rodriguez Rodriguez (founder and owner of Grupo Gloria), Eduardo Belmont Anderson (founder and president of the multinational Belcorp) and Jorge Rodriguez Rodriguez (Vito’s brother and co-owner of Grupo Gloria).
It should be noted that the survey made the calculation of the fortunes with the price of the shares of their companies and the exchange rates until March 11 of this year.
Those who stayed on the list
Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor figured, once more, as the richest in Peru, according to “The World’s Billionaires 2022″. He is the founder and president of the Intercorp Group, a conglomerate that has a presence in the insurance, banking, gastronomy, retail, education and pharmaceutical sectors.
Rodriguez-Pastor reached a fortune of US$5.2 billion, an amount US$100 million less than that recorded last year. Among the companies directed by Rodríguez-Pastor are the Interbank bank, the Real Plaza shopping center chain and the Mifarma and Inkafarma pharmacy chains.
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Anna Maria Brescia He ranked second in the group of Peruvian billionaires. The businesswoman owns 30% of Grupo Breca, which has a presence in mining, hotels, banking, fishing, insurance, among other areas. Among the companies that make up this group are the fishing company Tasa and the mining company Minsur. Brescia managed to increase his fortune to US$1.5 billion in 2022 (last year it totaled US$1.3 billion).
The third Peruvian billionaire on the list is Eduardo Hochschild. This businessman is president of the Hochschild Group, a mining and industrial conglomerate. His fortune in 2021 was US$1.3 billion, however in 2022 this was reduced to US$1.1 billion.
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The listing of Forbes of this year also reported that, globally, the fortunes of billionaires were reduced by US $ 400,000 million compared to 2021. China was the country with the most billionaires in the world (added 62) and the United States was the second (reached 50) , according to the ranking.
With a fortune of US$ 219,000 million, Elon Muskfounder of TeslaHe was the richest person in the world. The second-richest billionaire on this year’s list was Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who reported a fortune of $171 billion.
