Female billionaires are significantly less in the spotlight compared to their male peers.
To establish which countries in the world have the most female billionaires, we zoomed in on the women featuring on the latest data from the most recent Forbes World’s Billionaires List, powered by Money Transfer.
The United States has the most female billionaires with 85 in total. The collective net worth of these 85 female billionaires is an astonishing $555.9bn.
Alice Walton, heiress to the renowned retail empire of Walmart, is the richest woman in America with a colossal net worth of $61.8bn. Alice Walton is followed by Julia Koch, who has a net worth of $46.4bn.
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Savers and pensioners were given another boost to their pots after Shell lifted its prize dividend.
The rise is a modest 4 per cent to 12.4p per share – but is encouraging for ordinary Britons whose finances were left bruised by the energy giant’s decision to drastically slash its payout by two-thirds last year after the business was pummelled by the pandemic.
The oil major revealed yesterday that profits in the first three months of the year surged to £2.3billion on the back of rising crude prices.
Divi boost: Shell lifted its prize dividend by 4 per cent to 12.4p per share after revealing profits in the first three months of the year surged to £2.3bn on the back of rising crude prices
No smoke without fire as vulture fund quietly builds stake in BATS and IMPS
Kenneth Dart has been quietly building stakes in Britain s two listed companies - both of them deeply unfashionable stocks.
Tobacco, so they say, is a dying business.
Well, it is for many of its customers, anyway.
The stocks have been known for decades as BATS and IMPS to their fans. That fan base may be diminishing as environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues become more prominent but hard-nosed investors who care not for ESG issues are still clambering aboard, among them Kenneth Dart, the secretive billionaire investor.
The investment makes Dart’s fund the third largest shareholder in the FTSE-listed firm.
Spring Mountain this month also emerged with a three per cent stake in Imperial Brands, making it one of the company’s ten largest shareholders.
Dart has gained a reputation as a pioneer in vulture funds, where investors buy up the debt of countries in financial distress and profit from its eventual restructuring.
The investments, first reported by the Financial Times, come as the tobacco industry faces a slew of regulatory challenges over health concerns and increasing awareness of environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues.