Li Ka-shing
Source of wealth: Diversified
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Biography
Nicknamed Superman, Li Ka-shing is revered as one of the most influential businessmen in Asia.
Li retired as chairman of CK Hutchison Holdings and CK Asset Holdings in 2018 but remains senior advisor.
His son Victor now heads the conglomerate, which has more than 300,000 employees and operates in more than 50 nations.
Li started Cheung Kong Plastics, named after the Yangtze River, in 1950 at age 21 with $6,500 in savings and loans from relatives.
His Li Ka Shing Foundation has donated more than $3.8 billion; over 80% has gone to Greater China.
Perspective on their fortune
Gold
Everyday luxury
A Li Ka-shing's fortune is equivalent to 338 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
Li Ka-shing could buy 90,084,492 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 16 trucks to transport them, But we can be almost certain that Li Ka-shing will have enough left over to pay for the gas for those trucks.
Health
The price of life
Let's compare Li Ka-shing's fortune with the healthcare spending of a huge country
Li Ka-shing could fund the entire healthcare system of DR Congo with a population of over 105,800,000 of inhabitants for approximately 22.6 years.
But even if we compare their fortune to that of a rich country
At the other extreme, Li Ka-shing could cover the health expenditure of Luxembourg, considered the world's most heavily invested health system, for 10.0 years
Education
Buying the future
Lowest education spending
Li Ka-shing 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 14.7 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, Li Ka-shing could pay for it in full for 20.0 years.
Research
The monopoly of progress
Lowest research spending
Li Ka-shing 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 84.4 years.
Highest research spending
But even if we compare the total wealth of Li Ka-shing 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 1.9 years.
Financial Assets
Monthly wealth history
Fortune comparison
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