Vicky Safra & family
Source of wealth: Banking
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Biography
Vicky Safra and her four adult children inherited their fortune from her late husband and their father, banker Joseph Safra, who died in December 2020.
Vicky, who was born in Greece, maintains both Greek and Brazilian citizenship and lives mostly in Switzerland.
Oldest son Jacob Safra, 49, is responsible for the Swiss bank J. Safra Sarasin, Safra National Bank of New York and the family's international real estate.
David Safra, 40, manages Banco Safra in Brazil and J. Safra Group's Brazilian real estate holdings.
The family's J. Safra Sarasin agreed in March 2025 to buy about 70% of Denmark's Saxo Bank in a deal valued at nearly $1.2 billion.
Vicky's children Alberto and Esther sold their stakes in the family group to the other Safra family members in 2024 and early 2025, respectively, for undisclosed amounts.
Perspective on their fortune
Gold
Everyday luxury
A Vicky Safra & family's fortune is equivalent to 178 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
Vicky Safra & family could buy 47,421,143 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 8 trucks to transport them, But we can be almost certain that Vicky Safra & family will have enough left over to pay for the gas for those trucks.
Health
The price of life
Let's compare Vicky Safra & family's fortune with the healthcare spending of a huge country
Vicky Safra & family could fund the entire healthcare system of DR Congo with a population of over 105,800,000 of inhabitants for approximately 11.9 years.
But even if we compare their fortune to that of a rich country
At the other extreme, Vicky Safra & family could cover the health expenditure of Luxembourg, considered the world's most heavily invested health system, for 5.2 years
Education
Buying the future
Lowest education spending
Vicky Safra & 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 7.8 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, Vicky Safra & family could pay for it in full for 10.6 years.
Research
The monopoly of progress
Lowest research spending
Vicky Safra & 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 44.4 years.
Highest research spending
But even if we compare the total wealth of Vicky Safra & 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 1.0 years.
Financial Assets
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Monthly wealth history
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