不管市场如何动荡，富人依旧愈富

油价低迷，市场环境糟糕，上证指数也在夏天暴跌。

对投资者来说，去年实在不是个好年头。然而，那些资产净值10亿美元以上的富翁们依旧设法让2015年这种不稳定的市场行情成为了对他们的有利因素。

关注超级富人的公司Wealth-X针对亿万富翁进行了一项调查，结果显示，全球净资产超过10亿者的财富总量增长了5.4%，达到7.7万亿美元，这一部分人群的数量也增长了6.4%，达到2,473人。

亿万富翁人数的增加，很大程度上是因为婴儿潮出生的一代人把他们的财富传给了继承人。通过继承或部分继承，从而使得净资产超过10亿美元的人数同比增长了29.9%，这是亿万富翁中增长最快的一批人。

不过大部分亿万富翁还是需要企业家之类的职位来维持他们的地位。约有56%的亿万富翁是白手起家，87%的亿万富翁至少有一部分财富来自他们自己。

不过，亿万富翁们现在对于市场更加谨慎，如今，现金占到了他们净资产的22.2%，这一比例较之去年的19.1%有所提升，也是2010年Wealth-X开始跟踪这项数据以来的最高值。由于行情不稳，如上证指数在2015年夏天暴跌，亿万富翁似乎正着手把资金撤离股市。

也就是说，比起两年前，亿万富翁控制的全球财富如今要略少一些。2014年，净资产10亿以上的富翁持有了全球4%的财富，在2015年这一比例为3.9%，这意味着其他经济阶层的财富增长速度要稍微快于这些富豪们。

尽管女性正在初创公司和高管层努力占有一席之地，但男性亿万富翁的比例仍在增加。如今亿万富翁的男女比例为8.4:1，而去年是8.1:1。（财富中文网）

译者：严匡正

Low oil prices, rough market conditions, and the Shanghai Composite’s summer crash.

The past year was hardly kind to investors, yet billionaires as a group—that is, those with a net worth of $1 billion or more—managed to make the volatile market conditions in 2015 work in their favor.

In total, the wealth of the world’s billionaires grew by 5.4% to $7.7 trillion, while the number of billionaires also grew by 6.4% to 2,473, according to a billionaire census by Wealth-X, a firm that tracks the ultra-wealthy.

That growing number of billionaires was largely boosted by baby boomers passing their wealth on to their heirs. Billionaires who inherited or partially inherited their net worth grew 29.9% year-on-year—the fastest growing segment of all billionaires.

But the large majority of billionaires still require some form of entrepreneurialism to maintain their status. Some 56% of billionaires in 2015 were self-made and 87% made at least some of their fortunes themselves.

Billionaires have grown more cautious about the markets however, with cash accounting for 22.2% of their net worth, up from 19.1% last year and the highest percentage since Wealth-X began tracking the data in 2010. In response to uncertain market conditions such as the crash of the Shanghai Composite in the summer of 2015, it seems likely that billionaires began taking their money off the table.

That said, billionaires control slightly less of the world’s wealth than they did two years ago. While billionaires held about 4% of global wealth in 2014, they held 3.9% in 2015, suggesting that other economic classes grew their wealth at a slightly faster pace than billionaires.

Despite efforts to include more women in the startup space and at the executive table, male billionaire over-representation still increased, according to the report. About 8.4 male billionaires exist for every female billionaire today, up from a 8.1:1 ratio a year ago.