Abigail Johnson
Source of wealth: Fidelity
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Biography
Abigail Johnson has served as CEO of Fidelity Investments since 2014, when she took over for her father, and has been chairman since 2016.
Her grandfather, Edward Johnson II, founded the Boston-based mutual fund giant in 1946.
She owns an estimated 29% stake of the firm, which as of December 2025 manages discretionary assets totaling $7.1 trillion.
Johnson has embraced cryptocurrencies and, in 2018, Fidelity launched a platform that allows institutional investors to custody and trade bitcoin, ether and litecoin.
She worked summers at Fidelity through college and joined full-time as an analyst in 1988 after receiving a Harvard M.B.A.
Perspective on their fortune
Gold
Everyday luxury
A Abigail Johnson's fortune is equivalent to 271 of gold, but this may be difficult to value, as we don't usually have a handful of gold bars in our piggy bank.
A standard gold ring typically weighs between 4 and 7 grams. Let's say this one weighs 5 grams. It's usually 18k gold.
Based on today's gold price (not taking into account the jeweler's fee, shipping, or anything else), that gold ring would be worth $556.3
Abigail Johnson could buy 72,271,141 gold rings. That's a lot of fingers and a lot of gifts!!
And if the number of rings is difficult to visualize, all these rings would need 13 trucks to transport them, But we can be almost certain that Abigail Johnson will have enough left over to pay for the gas for those trucks.
Health
The price of life
Let's compare Abigail Johnson's fortune with the healthcare spending of a huge country
Abigail Johnson could fund the entire healthcare system of DR Congo with a population of over 105,800,000 of inhabitants for approximately 18.1 years.
But even if we compare their fortune to that of a rich country
At the other extreme, Abigail Johnson could cover the health expenditure of Luxembourg, considered the world's most heavily invested health system, for 8.0 years
Education
Buying the future
Lowest education spending
Abigail Johnson could assume the entire cost of the education system of Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, with more than 243,000,000 inhabitants for 11.8 years.
Highest education spending
But not only could he assume the cost of a poor country, Luxembourg is considered the country with the highest per capita investment in education in the world, Abigail Johnson could pay for it in full for 16.1 years.
Research
The monopoly of progress
Lowest research spending
Abigail Johnson could fully fund the state research budget of Pakistan, the fifth most populous country in the world with more than 260,000,000 of inhabitants, for 67.7 years.
Highest research spending
But even if we compare the total wealth of Abigail Johnson with Israel, the country that currently invests the most per capita in research in the world, it could assume the total cost of the system for 1.5 years.
Financial Assets
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Monthly wealth history
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