Slim adds €15bn to top world’s richest league

THE global ranks of billionaires grew by 199 people in the past year, but none came close to unseating Carlos Slim, the world’s richest man, who added $20.5 billion (€14.83bn) to his coffers, according to Forbes magazine’s annual tally.

The number of people on Forbes’ list climbed to 1,210 billionaires, setting a record with combined wealth of $4.5 trillion, up from $3.6tn a year ago.

While the biggest slice of that wealth, $1.5tn, is controlled by people in the US, the publication said more than half of the new billionaires came from Brazil, Russia, India and China.