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TH E WORLDÕ S BILLIONA IR E S

Martin Haefner 
SWITZERLAND $3 BIL #791 SOFTWARE,
INVESTMENTS
Sergio Mantegazza 
$2.9 BIL #822 TRAVEL
WEALTH GDP: $677.8 BIL
TOP SECTORS ORIGIN Thomas Straumann 
POPULATION: 8 MIL
8 BILLIONAIRES: 36 $2.7 BIL #887 DENTAL IMPLANTS
FINANCE & INVESTMENTS TOTAL NET WORTH: $123.8 BIL Stephan Schmidheiny 
30%
8 (+$16.4 BIL VS. 2017) BENJAMIN DE ROTHSCHILD $2.5 BIL #965 INVESTMENTS
53%
HEALTH CARE Marcel Erni 

6 17% TROPHY: The banking heir con- $2.4 BIL #1020 PRIVATE EQUITY
MANUFACTURING tinues his famous family’s lega- Alfred Gantner 
2 INHERITED & GROWING cy in the French Alps. In Decem-
INHERITED $2.4 BIL #1020 PRIVATE EQUITY
FASHION & RETAIL SELF-MADE ber, he opened the Four Seasons
2 Urs Wietlisbach 

Hotel Megève. The resort offers
FOOD & BEVERAGE $2.4 BIL #1020 PRIVATE EQUITY
helicopter ski safaris, glacier snow-
shoeing and canyon jumping. His grandmoth- Eva Maria Bucher-Haefner 
er Noemie bought land in the alpine village in $2.3 BIL #1070
COMPUTER ASSOCIATES
1920. King Albert I of Belgium was an early
guest; Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant filmed Thomas Flohr ★

$2.3 BIL #1070 AVIATION
a sequence of Charade at the pool in the older
EXPATRIATES hotel (built by Benjamin’s father, Edmond). Peter Spuhler 
3 $2.3 BIL #1070 TRAIN CARS
BASEL
3 RHEINFELDEN Karl Scheufele III & family 
ZSC LIONS RUSCHLIKON $2.2 BIL #1103 JEWELRY
BINNINGEN
WALTER FREY
Maja Oeri 
$2.1 BIL #1157 ROCHE HOLDING
WILEN
3 Georg von Opel 
WEININGEN $2.1 BIL #1157 REAL ESTATE,
INVESTMENTS
ZURICH JONA
5 FELDMEILEN Miriam Baumann-Blocher 
HURDEN $1.9 BIL #1284 CHEMICALS
Jean-Paul & Martine
LUCERNE Clozel 
BULLE $1.9 BIL #1284
PHARMACEUTICALS
ZUG DAVOS Benjamin de Rothschild 
VAUD CANTON 4 $1.9 BIL #1284 BANKING
Willy Michel 
$1.8 BIL #1339 MEDICAL DEVICES
GSTAAD
ST. MORITZ
Matthias Reinhart 
$1.8 BIL #1339 FINANCE
Thomas Meyer 
GENEVA
3 $1.5 BIL #1561
APPAREL RETAILER
VERBIER Gianluigi & Rafaela Aponte 
$9.3 BIL #164 SHIPPING Gary Fegel 
$1.4 BIL #1650
ZERMATT LUGANO Ernesto Bertarelli  COMMODITIES TRADING
$8.9 BIL #174 BIOTECH, Markus Blocher 
INVESTMENTS
$1.3 BIL #1756 CHEMICALS
Willi & Isolde Liebherr & Beda Diethelm 
family  $1.2 BIL #1867 HEARING AIDS
$7.1 BIL #222 CONSTRUCTION
Ivan Glasenberg 
$6.5 BIL #261 MINING
Hansjoerg Wyss 
$5.7 BIL #315 MEDICAL DEVICES
Rahel Blocher 
$5.5 BIL #334 CHEMICALS
Magdalena Martullo-
Blocher 
Thomas Flohr $5.5 BIL #334 CHEMICALS
NEWCOMER: His private Margarita Louis-Dreyfus &
family 
aviation company, Vista- $5.4 BIL #351 COMMODITIES Thomas
Jet, raised $200 million Straumann
in August at a $2.7 billion Thomas Schmidheiny 
$5 BIL #388 CEMENT
valuation. Flohr founded TROPHY: Les Trois
VistaJet with three air- Dona Bertarelli  Rois (“The Three Kings”) hotel

$4.6 BIL #456 BIOTECH
craft in 2004; it now has has had quite the guest list:

72 planes that fly heads Michael Pieper  Since the 17th century it has
of state, executives, en- $4.1 BIL #527 hosted Casanova, Napoleon
KITCHEN APPLIANCES
trepreneurs and high- and Hans Christian An der sen.
net-worth individuals to Rudolf Maag  In 2004 Straumann, a dental-
187 countries. Flohr him- $3.4 BIL #679 MEDICAL DEVICES implant billionaire, bought the
self travels close to 750 Hans Peter Wild  101-room hotel, located on the
hours, or 150 days, a year $3.3 BIL #703 FLAVORINGS banks of the Rhine in Basel,
on VistaJet planes. Martin Ebner  Switzerland, and spent two
$3.2 BIL #729 INVESTMENTS years renovating the property. LES TROIS ROI: DAVE PORTER/ALAMY
WEALTH STATUS:
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