The list of Switzerland’s biggest fortunes produced annually by the economic magazine Bilan, released today, includes for the first time in its 2021 edition six “crypto millionaires” who made huge profits from trading virtual currencies.
The family Hoffmann-Cooling-Duschmalé, which controls the pharmaceutical giant Roche, remains for the second consecutive year in the first place, with a fortune valued at about 35,000 million Swiss francs (33,000 million euros).
They follow him Klaus-Michael Kühne, majority shareholder of the transport group Kuehne + Nagel, and the French millionaire living in Geneva Gérard Wertheimer, one of the owners of the luxury brand Chanel, both with a fortune of about 30,000 million francs (28,000 million euros).
The pandemic, analyze With, has not particularly affected the great fortunes, whose number has doubled in the years since the financial crisis of 2008, and there are already about 20,000 residents in Switzerland with assets exceeding 10 million francs (9.5 million euros) .
The total fortune of the 300 richest Swiss increased by 16.3%, the highest percentage in the 30 years since the magazine began to make this list.
In the case of the new “crypto-millionaires”, Their fortunes have benefited from the sharp increase in the value of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, which has multiplied by five in the last year.
It is the case of Niklas Nikolajsen, a Dane living in the Swiss city of Zug who appears on Bilan’s list at 231, with a net worth valued at 400 million francs (382 million euros).
The Basque steel businessman reappears on the list Jose Maria Aristrain, in position 121 with a net worth of between 1,000 million and 1,500 million Swiss francs (950 million-1,450 million euros).
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