10 Richest People in The World

Every year, Forbes magazine has always issued a list of the world's richest people. This year, they reported that there were 1226 billionaires in the world who have property total $ 4.6 trillion or Rp41.856 trillion. Who are the world's 10 richest people?

A. Name: Carlos Slim Helu and family
Assets: $ 69 billion / Rp627, 84 trillion (down)Sources: TelecomCitizenship: Mexico
Carlos Slim Helu successfully defended his title as world's richest person for the third consecutive year, although his property was reduced $ 5 billion than last year due to falling share prices of telecommunications giant America Movil, more than half kekayannya sources. Slim now spends his days working at the Foundation Carlos Slim and Telmex Foundation. The purpose: philanthropic work that will develop human capabilities.

2. Name: Bill Gates
Assets: $ 61 miliar/Rp555 trillion (up)Source: MicrosoftCitizenship: United States
The most generous people on this planet (Gates has donated $ 28 billion) to help relieve polio in India. Gates will continue to donate $ 200 million per year to eliminate the diseases are still endemic in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria. Gates also got a new program: improving agriculture. His foundation has donated more than $ 2 billion on small farmers. Only a quarter of the treasure Gates from Microsoft that its stock price reached the highest value in the last 10 years raising his fortune to $ 5 billion. The rest of his wealth comes from the securities and shares in Ecolab and Mexico television network, Televisa.

3. Name: Warren Buffett
Assets: $ 44 miliar/Rp400, 3 trillion (down)Source: Berkshire HathawayCitizenship: United States
Who will replace the role of Oracle of Omaha at Berkshire Hathaway's head? Buffett announced in February that he had chosen his successor, but has not given a name. In December, he chose his son to a farmer, Howard, as a non-executive chairman and the "guardian of the company's values." Tax law that requires the wealthy should pay a minimum tax of 30% is called "Buffett Rule" in honor of billionaire who frequently stated that the rich should pay more taxes than the average person. Buffett's wealth dropped $ 6 billion due to decline in Berkshire's stock price by 7% over the last year. In its annual bulletin, Buffett admitted making several mistakes, including predicting the real estate boom will return.

4. Name: Bernard Arnault
Assets: $ 41 miliar/Rp373 trillion (equal)Source: LVMHNationality: French
Businessmen and luxury lifestyle as well as Europe's richest man, Arnault the wealth of luxury goods under the 'imperial' LVMH. Sales rose 16% in Europe, Asia, the United States, especially the sale of Louis Vuitton.

5. Name: Amancio Ortega
Assets: $ 37.5 miliar/Rp341, 2 trillion (up)Sources: ZaraNationality: Spain
Ortega is no longer a director of clothing company, Inditex, since July 2011. Even so, the company continues to grow. The share price rose last year, increasing his wealth to $ 6.5 billion and put it into the list of world's five richest people for the first time.

6. Name: Larry Ellison
Assets: $ 36 miliar/Rp327, 5 trillion (down)Sources: OracleCitizenship: United States
Oracle stock has been up and down for months. Had climbed back down since last August, but still 15% lower than last year due to slowing sales of software and hardware giant is. Ellison property was down $ 3.5 billion.

7. Name: Eike Batista
Assets: $ 30 miliar/Rp272, 9 trillion (equal)Source: Mining, OilNationality: Brazil
Brazil's richest man making a fortune from oil. Oil and gas drilling, OGX Petroleo e Gas, testing the well produced oil at the offshore end of January. Two-thirds of his wealth comes from the drilling company. In addition, he also put a fortune in gold. He bought Ventana Gold of Canada who will mine the location with a very promising gold deposit in Colombia.

8. Name: Stefan Persson
Assets: $ 26 miliar/Rp236, 5 trillion (up)Source: H & MCitizenship: Sweden
Store chains offering chic clothing H & M opened their first store in Croatia, Singapore, and Romania. Now H & M has 2,500 stores in 43 countries.

9. Name: Li Ka-shing
Assets: $ 25.5 billion / USD 232 trillion (down)Sources: variousCitizenship: Hong Kong
Although the amount of their wealth falls, Li Ka-shing to go into the world's 10 richest people list for the first time since 2007. He returned to Asia's richest person for the first time since 2004. One construction emperor, Li employs 270 thousand people in 53 countries. One of the seven residence in Hong Kong was built by him. He also holds about 13% of world container traffic. Li also is a novice investor to technology companies such as Facebook and Spotify.

10. Name: Karl Albrecht
Assets: $ 25.4 billion (down)Sources: AldiNationality: German
Low-cost supermarket chain Aldi Sud hers, has 4500 stores, including 1200 in 32 U.S. states. To reduce costs, Aldi does not accept credit cards.