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HURUN SPECIAL REPORT ON ‘WEALTH IMPACT 4MTHS AFTER COVID-19 OUTBREAK’

23 June 2020, Shanghai, Mumbai and Oxford. Hurun Research today released Wealth Impact 4mths after Covid-19 Outbreak, a special report looking into wealth changes of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs in the four months ending 31 May 2020. This special report follows on from the Wealth Impact 2mths after Covid-19 Outbreak looking into wealth changes in the two months ending 31 March 2020 and the Hurun Global Rich List 2020, which had a wealth cut-off of 31 January 2020.

Stock markets across the world dropped significantly in the first two months after the outbreak but clawed back some of the losses in the second two months. India, the UK and France were down around 20%, with the NYSE, Japan, HK and Germany down around 10%. Mainland China’s stock exchanges were down slightly at 4%, whilst the only major stock market to see a gain was NASDAQ, up 4%.

The British Pound and Indian Rupee were down 5.6% down 5.3% against the dollar, whilst the Chinese Yuan and Euro were up 2% and 1%.

In the four months since the outbreak, 60% of the Hurun Global Rich List Top 100 saw their wealth rise or stay the same, whilst 40% were down. Rupert Hoogewerf, Hurun Report chairman and chief researcher, said “Whilst the first two months of the outbreak saw a massive wealth wipeout of the Hurun Global Top 100, the second two months saw a V-shaped recovery for two thirds of the Hurun Global Top 100, reminding us that it is dangerous to bet against the world’s best wealth creators.”

“The two biggest ‘winners’ from the Hurun Top 100 of Covid-19 were online retailers Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Colin Huang Zheng of Chinese low-end ‘social shopping’ giant Pinduoduo, who added US$20bn and US$18bn to their fortunes, pretty much all the gains coming in the past two months. For Bezos and Huang, Covid-19 has seen their wealth increase in the shape of a ‘Nike tick’”, added Hoogewerf. “Another big winner was Eric Yuan Zheng, 50, of popular video conferencing app Zoom, who saw his wealth triple from US$4.5bn in January to US$13bn today, propelling him up from 555th in the world four months ago to knocking on the door of the world’s Top 100 today.”

Table: Biggest Wealth Creations of the Hurun Global 100 in the 4mths to 31 May 2020

Source: Hurun Research Institute 2020

Huang Zheng, 40, of e-commerce platform Pinduoduo, was the fastest riser of the Hurun Global Rich List Top 100 of the past four months, seeing his wealth almost double. The top 5 fastest risers were all from China

Table: Fastest Risers of the Hurun Global 100 in the 4mths to 31 May 2020

Source: Hurun Research Institute 2020

Biggest losers

The biggest losers in the last four months were Bernard Arnault of LVMH and Warren Buffett, each down US$18bn, followed by Carlos Slim Helu down US$17bn and Amancio Ortega of Inditex down US$14bn. Hoogewerf said “Bernard Arnault and Warren Buffett were the biggest losers, down US$18bn each over the past 4mths. For Arnault it could have been a lot worse, since he was down US$30bn in the first two months after the outbreak, but managed to claw back US$12bn in the following two months.”

As a category, investors made the biggest losses. Sheldon Adelson of Las Vegas Sands saw his wealth drop US$7bn, on the back of poor performance of his casinos since the outbreak.

Table: Biggest Wealth Drops in 4 mths to 31 May 2020 in the Hurun Global 100

Source: Hurun Research Institute 2020

By country

In the four months to 31 May 2020, China added 3 individuals to the world’s Top 100 billionaires, with the USA, Russia and Italy each adding one. The USA today has 39 in the Top 100, compared with 26 from China. “China has narrowed the gap with the USA at the top of the Hurun Global Rich List, from 13 down to 11.”

World’s Top 10

Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Steve Ballmer of Microsoft were the only two from the Hurun Global Top 10 to see their wealth increase.

Table: Hurun Global Top 10, as of 31 May 2020, compared with 31 Jan 2020

Source: Hurun Research Institute 2020

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Hurun Global Rich List Top 100 – 4 months since outbreak of Covid-19

Source: Hurun Research Institute 2020

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