Warren Buffett Becomes World’s Richest : Forbes

In changing scene in world’s billionaire club, billionaire Anil Ambani has emerged as the biggest wealth creator, while famed American investor Warren Buffett has overtaken software king Bill Gates and Mexican Tycoon Carlos Slim to lead the list of world’s richest people released by Forbes on March 6, 2008. With a net worth of $ 62 billion, Buffett has topped the list, followed by Carlos Slim Helu ($ 60 billion) and Bill Gates ($ 58 billion) on second and 3rd positions.

These three are followed by three Indians—Lakshmi Mittal ($ 45 billion), Mukesh ($ 43 billion) and Anil ($ 42 billion) on fourth, fifth and sixth ranks.

K. P. Singh too made it to the top 10 by occupying the eighth position with a net worth of $ 30 billion. In terms of wealth created in the last one year, Anil Ambani has come on top, followed by his elder brother Mukesh Ambani. Other two in the top 10 are Russia’s Oleg Deripaska ($ 28 billion) and Germany’s Karl Albrecht ($ 27 billion).

As per the Forbes’ declaration Anil Ambani is the biggest gainer with wealth soaring by $ 23.8 billion since the last list. He is only $ 1 billion behind his brother Mukesh, who is the second biggest gainer with a rise of $ 22·9 billion in his net worth.

The Forbes list also includes Sunil Mittal and family with net worth $ 11·8 billion, Kumar Birla and Ramesh Chandra with $ 9·6 billion each, Gautam Adani $ 9·3 billion, Savitri Jindal and family $ 8·2 billion, Anil Agrawal $ 6 billion and Adi Godrej and family $ 5·5 billion.