Sunday Times Rich List 2015

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The Sunday Times Rich List 2015 is the 27th annual survey of the wealthiest people resident in the United Kingdom, published by The Sunday Times on 26 April 2015. [1]

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The Guardian reported that the collective wealth of Britain’s 1,000 richest people had more than doubled in the last 10 years with a combined fortune of just over £547bn and a fortune of £100m was now required to qualify for the list. [2]

This year's list marked the first year Queen Elizabeth II was not among the list's top 300 most wealthy since the list began in 1989. [3] In the Sunday Times Rich List 1989, the Queen had been ranked number one in the United Kingdom, with a net worth of £5.2 billion, which included state assets that were not hers personally, [4] (approximately £16.3 billion in today's value). [5]

Top 15 fortunes

2015 [1] NameCitizenshipSource of wealth2014 [6]
Rank Net worth
£ bn 		RankNet worth
£ bn
1 Increase2.svg£13.18 Increase2.svg Leonard Blavatnik Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States Industry4£11.00
2 Decrease2.svg£13.00 Increase2.svg Sri and Gopi Hinduja Flag of India.svg  India Industry and finance1£11.90
3 Increase2.svg£11.00 Increase2.svg Galen Weston and George G. Weston and familyFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada Retailing11£7.30
4 Decrease2.svg£9.80 Decrease2.svg Alisher Usmanov Flag of Russia.svg  Russia Mining and investment2£10.65
5 Increase2.svg£9.70 Increase2.svg David and Simon Reuben Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Property and internet7£9.00
6 Decrease2.svg£9.45 Decrease2.svg Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland & Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Pharmaceuticals5£9.75
7 Decrease2.svg£9.20 Decrease2.svg Lakshmi Mittal and familyFlag of India.svg  India Steel3£10.25
8 Steady2.svg£8.70 Decrease2.svg Kirsten Rausing and Jörn Rausing Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Inheritance and investment (Tetra Pak)8£8.80
9 Increase2.svg£8.56 Increase2.svg The Duke of Westminster Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Property10£8.50
10 Decrease2.svg£7.29 Decrease2.svg Roman Abramovich Flag of Russia.svg  Russia Oil and industry9£8.52
11 Decrease2.svg£7.24 Decrease2.svg John Fredriksen and familyFlag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus Shipping and oil services6£9.25
12 Steady2.svg£7.15 Increase2.svg Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands [7] Inheritance, banking, brewing (Heineken)12£6.36
13 Increase2.svg£6.50 Increase2.svg Sir David Barclay and Sir Frederick Barclay Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Property, media, retailing16£6.00
14 Increase2.svg£6.40 Increase2.svg Hans Rausing and familyFlag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Packaging (Tetra Pak)17£5.90
15 Decrease2.svg£5.94 Decrease2.svg Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber and familyFlag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia Property, hotels (MBI Group)13£6.16

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References

  1. 1 2 Beresford, Philip, ed. (26 April 2015). "2015 Rich List". thesundaytimes.co.uk. Archived from the original on December 31, 2010. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  2. ↑ "Richest Double wealth". The Guardian . United Kingdom. 26 April 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
  3. ↑ Helen Nianias (26 April 2015). "The Queen drops off the top end of the Sunday Times Rich List for the first time since its inception" . The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-25. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  4. ↑ "Rich List: Changing face of wealth". BBC News. 2013-04-18. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  5. ↑ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth . Retrieved 7 May 2024.
  6. ↑ Beresford, Philip, ed. (18 May 2014). "2014 Rich List". thesundaytimes.co.uk. Archived from the original on December 31, 2010. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
  7. ↑ Fontevecchia, Agustino. "Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken". Forbes . Retrieved 9 October 2015.
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