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I N V E S T I G A T I N G · F O R B E S · annual list of the world’s 1000 richest (men:) USA dominates overall, but a new trend is clear as diamonds. Russia is rising. Young russian business-men is poping up like muchrooms and they are welleducated and building up their own business in sectors like banking, property development, real estate, oil etc. Sergey Polonsky (born 1972) of Mirax Group serves as one example. The americans are big in IT development and investment like hedge funds. One example of an rising young american business-man is Peter Thiel, aged 40, born in Frankfurt am Main, living in San Francisco. He is the founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook. He is also gay, if that is of any significance.

Sweden resides 1% of the hyper rich individuals in a population that is 1‰ of the world population.

Forbes.com