Олигархи-"лузеры"
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aIAWDrA4RSTQ&refer=home
Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Russian billionaires from aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska to soccer-club owner Roman Abramovich lost more than $230 billion in five months during the nation's worst financial crisis since the 1998 default on its debt......
Moscow's benchmark Micex stock index declined 61 percent since its peak in May. The global credit seizure, war with Georgia and falling commodity prices led foreign investors to pull $74 billion out of Russia since early August, according to BNP Paribas SA. While Russia's 1998 default and devaluation of the ruble eradicated savings for most of the population, this year's losses are wiping out its richest citizens' fortunes.
......
United Co. Rusal's Deripaska, 40, the richest Russian on the list, lost more than $16 billion and in the past week ceded stakes in Hochtief AG and Magna International Inc. Chelsea FC owner and Evraz Group SA shareholder Abramovich, 41, lost $20 billion, based on assets excluding property and cash.
Lisin's Losses
The biggest loser has been Vladimir Lisin, 52, an avid hunter and head of Russia's Shooting Club, whose 85 percent stake in OAO Novolipetsk Steel lost $22 billion in value in the period.
Novolipetsk rival Evraz declined 83 percent, shrinking 49- year-old founder Alexander Ambramov's fortune to $2.2 billion from $13.4 billion. Russia's biggest steelmaker, OAO Severstal, also fell, cutting the wealth of chief executive officer and majority owner Alexei Mordashov, 43, to $5.3 billion.
``They should take us all off the Forbes list,'' said Alexander Lebedev, ranked 39th by the magazine in May with $3.1 billion of wealth. Lebedev, 49, who owns 30 percent of state-run airline OAO Aeroflot, said in an interview on Sept. 23 that ``silly'' rhetoric by the Kremlin over the conflict in Georgia was responsible for 40 percent of the stock market's drop in August.
Lukoil, Alfa
OAO Lukoil Chief Executive Officer Vagit Alekperov, 58, saw his 20 percent stake in Russia's second-biggest oil producer decline to $7.2 billion from $19.5 billion. The fortune of Alekperov deputy Leonid Fedun, 52, declined to $3 billion from $8.4 billion. Both men have said they will continue to buy more Lukoil shares.
Dmitry Rybolovlev, 41, who controls OAO Uralkali and owns 20 percent of OAO Silvinit, the country's only potash producers, lost about $12.8 billion, leaving him with $4.1 billion.
Alfa Group partners Mikhail Fridman, 44, German Khan, 46, and Alexei Kousmichoff, 45, ranked seventh, 10th and 17th, respectively, lost at least a combined $12.1 billion.
Alfa's shareholdings include BP Plc's Russian oil venture TNK-BP, mobile-phone operators OAO VimpelCom and Turkey's Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri AS, supermarket chain X5 Retail Group and television broadcaster CTC Media Inc.
Spokespeople for companies including Deripaska's Basic Element, Evraz, Nikolai Tsvetkov's UralSib Financial Corp. and Rybolovlev's Uralkali declined to comment on the losses.
......................
``You can now buy the free float of the entire Russian energy sector with the market cap of Coca-Cola, and still have change to buy all the Russian banks,'' Merrill Lynch & Co. emerging markets equity strategist Michael Hartnett said in a note to clients today.
..........
``We've seen quite a significant inflow of fresh money by our wealthy individuals to acquire at these very attractive levels that we haven't seen since 2003, 2004,'' Teplukhin said in a Bloomberg Television interview on Oct. 9, a day the Micex Index climbed 9.8 percent.
Тоже самое для акул капитализма. жемчуг резко помельчал
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/blog/2008/oct/10/warrenbuffett-richlists
The financial turmoil has swept the title of America's richest man out of Bill Gates's hands and handed to his old buddy and Warren Buffett.
According to reports overnight, US magazine Forbes has recalculated the respective wealth of the richest 400 Americans following the turmoil in September and found that the Sage of Omaga fared rather well. His fortune swelled by $8bn (£4.68bn) to a robust $68bn during the month, thanks to a surge in the value of his Berkshire Hathaway empire.
Gates's fortune, though, shrunk by $1.5bn during the month to a not—penurious-quite-yet $55.5bn, putting the Microsoft co-founder in second place.
Most other billionaires on the list (which was released last month) also lost out in the crisis.
The full calculations will be released on October 27, but as it's a US-focused list it won't show how other tycoons like Carlos Slim have fared.
Rumours that Forbes is considering renaming it the "not as rich as they used to be" list remained firmly unsubstantiated at the time of writing.
Мир это Выхухоль.