Elaine Marshall & family
Source of wealth: Koch Inc.
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Biography
Elaine Marshall owns an estimated 16% of $125 billion (revenue) conglomerate Koch, Inc. (formerly Koch Industries) with her two sons.
She inherited her stake from husband E. Pierce Marshall (d. 2006), whose father J. Howard Marshall II (d. 1995) was an early partner of founder Fred Koch (d. 1967).
J. Howard II was married to Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith (d. 2007) at the time of his death.
Fred Koch's son Charles is chairman and co-CEO of Koch, Inc. and splits an 84% voting stake with Julia Koch, the widow of his brother David (d. 2019).
Elaine's son Preston Marshall is a former director of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank cofounded by Charles Koch.
Her son E. Pierce Marshall, Jr. runs investment firm Élevage Capital Management.
Perspective on their fortune
Gold
Everyday luxury
A Elaine Marshall & family's fortune is equivalent to 208 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
Elaine Marshall & family could buy 55,599,503 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 10 trucks to transport them, But we can be almost certain that Elaine Marshall & family will have enough left over to pay for the gas for those trucks.
Health
The price of life
Let's compare Elaine Marshall & family's fortune with the healthcare spending of a huge country
Elaine Marshall & family could fund the entire healthcare system of DR Congo with a population of over 105,800,000 of inhabitants for approximately 13.9 years.
But even if we compare their fortune to that of a rich country
At the other extreme, Elaine Marshall & family could cover the health expenditure of Luxembourg, considered the world's most heavily invested health system, for 6.2 years
Education
Buying the future
Lowest education spending
Elaine Marshall & family 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 9.1 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, Elaine Marshall & family could pay for it in full for 12.4 years.
Research
The monopoly of progress
Lowest research spending
Elaine Marshall & family 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 52.1 years.
Highest research spending
But even if we compare the total wealth of Elaine Marshall & family 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 1.2 years.
Financial Assets
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Fortune comparison
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