亚洲拥有世界上最多的亿万富翁

北京：据周四发行的一家中国财富杂志报道，亚洲是世界上亿万富翁最多的大洲，紧随其后的是北美和欧洲。

胡润百富榜，这个编排了榜单的奢侈品杂志出版商称，1月世界上有1453人拥有超过10亿或以上财富。数据显示，亚洲有608个亿万富翁，北美440个而欧洲324个。

按国家来说，美国和中国分别在榜单上占据了408和317，紧随其后的是俄罗斯，德国和印度。

墨西哥电信沙皇卡洛斯•斯利姆，73岁，凭借其660亿美元的个人资产被评为“这个星球上最富的人”。 斯利姆也荣登《福布斯》杂志去年的年度全球富榜单。

美国投资者沃伦•巴菲特和西班牙的老板阿曼西欧•奥尔特加，时尚品牌Zara的创始人，凭借资产净值580亿美元和550亿美元在胡润榜分别位列第二第三名。

全世界亿万富翁总财富估计达到5万5千亿美元，大小相当于去年日本经济资产。

“过去的一年里见证了私营部门财富的回弹，”榜单上显示，并表示全球前10名富翁在过去一年里其净资产上升了22%，也就是每天增加2亿5000万美元。

榜单上还指出，房产，电信，媒体和技术还有零售业是最常见的财富来源。

胡润, 胡润报告的董事长兼首席研究员说，世界上亿万富翁的真实数量比如今这个数据要多三倍，因为有些超级富翁隐藏起自己的财富。

“有些人故意将他们的财富作为秘密，因为……他们用非法途径获得财富，”他在一新闻发布会上告诉记者。“其他人仅仅是为避免引人注目。”

胡润，通过培训成为了会计师，之前曾参与编制《福布斯》富豪榜。

来源：龙腾网

BEIJING: Asia has more billionaires than any other continent, followed by North America and Europe, according to a survey by a China-based wealth magazine released on Thursday.

There were 1,453 people around the world with a personal wealth of $1 billion or more as of January, said the Hurun Report, a luxury magazine publisher that compiled the list.Asia had 608 billionaires, North America 440 and Europe 324, it said in a statement.

Among individual countries, the United States and China dominated with 408 and 317 citizens respectively on the list, followed by Russia, Germany and India.

Mexican telecoms czar Carlos Slim, 73, was ranked as the "Richest Man on the Planet" with a personal fortune of $66 billion. Slim also topped the Forbes magazine annual global rich list last year.

US investor Warren Buffett and Amancio Ortega of Spain, founder of fashion brand Zara, were second and third in the Hurun Report list with net worth of $58 billion and $55 billion respectively.

It estimated the total wealth of the world's dollar billionaires at $5.5 trillion, roughly the size of the Japanese economy last year.

"This past year has seen a rebound in the wealth of the private sector," it said, adding the net assets of the 10 richest people on the list rose 22 per cent over the year, or $250 million a day.

Real estate, telecommunications, media and technology and retail were the most common sources of wealth, it added.

Rupert Hoogewerf, chairman and chief researcher of the Hurun Report, said the true number of billionaires in the world could be three times higher as some super-rich hid their worth.

"Some people deliberately make their wealth a secret because... they gained it through illegal ways," he told reporters at a press conference. "Some others simply prefer to keep a low profile."

Hoogewerf, an accountant by training, previously compiled the Forbes rich list.