SAS-CoV-2 virus ‘breached pockets’ of British billionaires

According to the Sunday Times annual ranking of the 1,000 richest people in the UK, the super-rich group lost £ 54 billion ($ 65 billion) in just the past two months. Total assets of this group in 2020 is estimated at 743 billion pounds (899.3 billion USD), less than 29 billion pounds last year (over 35 billion USD).

More than 50% of the total number of billionaires in the UK has lost a fortune of up to 6 billion pounds per person and this is an unprecedented reduction since the 2008 financial crisis.

English inventor and billionaire James Dyson. Photo: AFP / TTXVN

Typically, the Hinduja brothers – who held the top of the list of British billionaires last year with a total assets of 22 billion pounds – are in this 50% group. With the loss of the equivalent of £ 6 billion, the pair fell to No. 2 on this year’s billionaire list, on par with business owners David and Simon Reuben.

Ineos petrochemical owner, Jim Ratcliffe, Britain’s No. 1 billionaire in 2018, also lost 6 billion pounds and the total remaining assets in 2020 is about 12.15 billion pounds.

Meanwhile, investor James Dyson has climbed to the top of the billionaire list for the first time when owning an estimated total assets of £ 16.2 billion ($ 19.61 billion). According to the Sunday Times, the billionaire jumped spectacularly from last year’s fifth place to the first position this year thanks to the business activities that reap good results as well as the decline in the total value of assets. other billionaires in the top 10 billionaires in England. Although the number of billionaires fell 4 people to 147, London is still the billionaire capital in the world.

The Sunday Times said that the first detailed analysis of the assets of the ultra-rich in the UK since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has raised concerns about the possibility of “Misty Land” falling into deep recession. and long.

Here is a list of the top 10 billionaires in England in 2020 according to the Sunday Times vote:

1. James Dyson and his family (owning total assets of 16.2 billion pounds)

2. Sri Brothers & Gopi Hindujia and family (£ 16 billion)

3. David and Simon Reuben (£ 16 billion)

5. Leonard Blavatnik (£ 15.8 billion)

5. Ineos petrochemical owner Jim Ratcliffe (£ 12.2 billion)

6. Kirsten and Jorn Rausing (£ 12.1 billion)

7. Alisher Usmanov (£ 11.7 billion)

8. Guy, George & Galen Jr Weston and his family (£ 10.5 billion)

9. Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho (£ 10.3 billion)

10. The Duke of Westminster and the Grosvenor family (£ 10.3 billion).