List of wealthiest families
Various lists of the richest families in the world (excluding royal families or autocratic ruling dynasties) are published internationally, by Forbes[1][2] as well as other business magazines.
There is a distinction between wealth held by identifiable individual billionaires or a "nuclear family" and the wider notion of an extended family or a historical "dynasty," where the wealth of a historically family-owned company or business like the Scudder family has become distributed between various branches of descendants,[3] usually throughout decades, ranging from several individuals to hundreds of offspring (such as the Rothschild family).[4] According to Bloomberg, the world's 25 richest families control $1.4 trillion (1,400,000,000,000) of wealth.[5]
Contemporary rankings
Note: The list includes families who, according to reliable sources, have a combined net worth of 1 billion US dollars and above.
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Historical
Excluding royal dynasties and land-owning aristocracy, the wealthiest families since the emergence of banking and early capitalism in the Italian Renaissance were:
- The Rothschild family of bankers became the richest family in the mid-19th century.[61] The family's accumulated wealth has been divided among many descendants, only one of which (Benjamin de Rothschild) was officially recognized as a billionaire. Determining the family's exact wealth has been deemed implausible;[62] conspiracy theories claiming the family has $350 billion or trillions of dollars[4] have not been proven.
- The Bardi family of Florence (14th century)
- The Medici family, as owners of the Medici Bank, the richest family in 15th-century Europe.[63]
- The Gondi family of Florence, financial partners of the Medici family in the 15th century.
- The Fugger family of mercantile bankers and venture capitalists, the richest family in the 16th century.[64]
- The Welser family, alongside the Fugger one of the most important families of merchant bankers in 16th-century Europe.
- The Baring family, owners of an important merchant bank in London in the 18th to 19th centuries.
- The Schröder family, a leading Hanseatic family of Hamburg in the 18th to 19th centuries.
- The Goldman–Sachs family, owners of the Goldman Sachs investment bank from 1869 to 1912.[65]
- The Venetian noble houses, notably the Contarini, Cornaro, Dandolo, Giustinian, Loredan, Mocenigo, and Morosini families, monopolised pre-modern trade while ruling the Venetian Republic as a mercantile oligarchy.[66]
Notes
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External links
- Gauri Bhatia, Here's how India's wealthiest families are seeking to stay wealthy, CNBC, 18 October 2017
- Simone Foxman, World's Richest Families Seeking to Make More Deals on Their Own, Bloomberg, 9 November
- The T&C 50: The Richest Families You've Never Heard Of, Town & Country, 17 October 2017,
- Kerry A. Dolan and Luisa Kroll, "Billionaire Dynasties", Forbes, 21 June 2001
- Devon Pendleton, Bloomberg, Europe's richest royal gets richer as family bank lures wealthy, The Register Citizen, 28 October 2017
- Tom Metcalf and Jack Witzig, World's Wealthiest Became $1 Trillion Richer in 2017, Bloomberg News, 27 December 2017
- Kimberley Richards, 87 richest families in Canada have 4,000 times more wealth than average family, report says, Independent, 1 August 2018
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