Explosions de milliardaire de 2008
Explosions de milliardaire de 2008
par Luisa Kroll
Mardi 23 décembre 2008
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Anil Ambani
Les douzaines des milliards perdus les plus riches du monde ces derniers mois, mais ces 10 se distinguent pour certains des plus grands effondrements.
C'était une année redoutable pour le monde le plus riche car les marchés et les devises autour du monde ont dégringolé.
Plus de 300 des 1.125 milliardaires nous avons correspondu sur notre liste annuelle mars où passé ont depuis lors perdu au moins $1 milliards ; plusieurs douzaine a perdu plus de $5 milliards. Les 10 les plus riches de nos 2008 rangs ont laissé tomber environ $150 milliards de richesse, traîné vers le bas par le brasseur d'affaires en acier Lakshmi Mittal, frères aliénés Mukesh et Anil Ambani et baron K.P. de propriété. Singh, qui a ensemble laissé tomber $100 milliards. 25 plus grands perdants du milliardaire de l'Amérique de 2008 ont perdu des $167 milliards combiné.
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Mais même en une année si terrible, les histoires de quelques milliardaires et maintenant les anciens milliardaires se tiennent dehors comme particulièrement redoutables.
Prenez David Ross, un des entrepreneurs les plus réussis des R-U. Plus tôt ce mois, Ross a informé quatre sociétés anonymes auxquelles il était un actionnaire et un directeur importants qu'il avait emprunté contre ses parts pour placer les investissements immobiliers qui avaient acidifié. Il devra probablement vendre certains de ces enjeux pour payer au loin ses dettes. Jusqu'ici il a démissionné de trois des quatre conseils et a fait un pas vers le bas de son poteau en tant que conseiller de Jeux Olympiques. Sa fortune, que nous avons estimée à $1.4 milliards en mars, est maintenant valeur environ $150 millions.
Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson, ancien Président et un grand actionnaire dans Landsbanki, la banque en second lieu la plus grande de Islande, scie que la société saisie en octobre en tant que plus mauvais de la crise de crédit a déchirée par la nation d'île. L'échec a éliminé ses $1.1 milliards de fortune. He has since had to put his holding company, Hansa, into voluntary liquidation and is selling his U.K. soccer team, West Ham.
Russians were some of the biggest losers in the past year. Vladimir Lisin’s Novolipetsk Iron and Steel is down three-fourths since its June peak. Dmitry Rybolovlev’s fertilizer company, Uralkali, has fallen 90% since it peaked around the same time.
But those losses pale compared with the troubles facing Oleg Deripaska. In March he was the world’s ninth richest person and Russia’s richest man, with a fortune we estimated to be worth $28 billion. Since then Deripaska has been forced to sell shares in Canadian carmaker Magna International and German construction firm Hotchief, and had to borrow $4.5 billion from a state-controlled bank to hold on to his stake in Norilsk Nickel. He will likely sell off additional assets to avoid losing even more of his fortune, now estimated at $10 billion. Or less.
The biggest loser of all was Anil Ambani. Touted on the cover of our 2008 billionaires issue for having added $24 billion to his fortune in one year, Ambani has dropped $30 billion since then. But don’t worry too much. His Reliance Entertainment is investing $500 million in a new studio venture with Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks. Plus, he remains quite wealthy, worth $12 billion That’s something many others can’t claim.
In Pictures: Billionaire Blowups, 2008
1. Anil Ambani
March net worth: $42 billion
Current net worth: $12 billion
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Oleg Deripaska
The biggest billionaire gainer last March is now the year’s biggest loser. Ambani lost $30 billion in the past nine months, more than anyone in the world. Stock of his telecom company dropped after his estranged brother helped scuttle a deal with African telecom MTN. It’s quite an achievement in a year in which three of his fellow countrymen–estranged brother Mukesh, steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal and Indian KP Singh, all of whom ranked earlier among the world’s 10 richest–lost more than $20 billion apiece.
2. Oleg Deripaska
March net worth: $28 billion
Current net worth: less than $10 billion
Former metals trader survived Russia’s gangster wars but may not withstand collapsing markets and heavy debts of at least $14 billion. Russia’s one-time richest man recently received a $4.5 billion loan from a state-controlled bank in order to keep his 25% stake in Norilsk Nickel, which faced a margin call by Western banks from which he had borrowed. Other margin calls forced him to divest a $1.5 billion stake in Canadian carmaker Magna International and a $500 million stake in German construction company Hotchief. He’s also selling stake in insurance company Inogsstrakh.
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3. Anurag Dikshit
March net worth: $1.6 billion
Current net worth: $1 billion
Dikshit designed the software for PartyGaming’s successful PartyPoker game, which allowed live gambling over the Web. He left the company and sold a chunk of shares in 2006, the year the U.S. government banned gaming. He recently pleaded guilty to violating U.S. gaming laws and agreed to forfeit $300 million. He could face up to two years in jail but apparently won’t be sentenced until 2010. He has already paid $100 million of his fine and will pay the rest in two installments next year.
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Bjorgflur Gudmundsson
4. Bjorgflur Gudmundsson
March net worth: $1.1 billion
Current net worth: zero
The October collapse and government seizure of Iceland’s second largest bank wiped out the $1.1 billion fortune of Gudmundsson, the bank’s chairman and biggest shareholder, along with his son Thor. His holding company, Hansa, has since gone into voluntary liquidation and is looking for a buyer for its U.K. soccer team, West Ham. It’s not the first time he’s run into trouble. A former shipping executive, he was charged with fraud and embezzlement in relation to the firm’s 1985 collapse, and was eventually found guilty on five minor counts and sentenced to 12 months’ probation.
5. Luis Portillo
March net worth: $1.2 billion
Current net worth: $15 million
Spain’s short-lived real estate gold rush left one of its most visible speculators holding a nearly empty bag. Portillo–who acquired real estate firm Inmocaral three years ago, then led the takeover of the larger Inmobiliaria Colonial in 2006–personally borrowed a reported $1.4 billion from more than a dozen banks during boom times, using his stock as collateral. He resigned as chairman in December 2007 and then tried to sell his stake to a Dubai fund earlier this year. When the deal fell through, he had to sell most of shares to pay debts.
Click here for the full list of the Billionaire Blowups of 2008.
Additional reporting by Tatiana Serafin, Russell Flannery, Naazneen Karmali and Cristina von Zeppelin
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