2015年超级富豪的财富缩水，但中国是例外

上周发布的一项新的研究指出，由于去年亿万富翁财富集体缩水，所以他们普遍比以前穷了一些，不过亚洲依然在以接近每三天一名的频率催生着新的亿万富翁。

家族内部的财产转移，商品价格的下降，美元的走强，让亿万富翁的总财富在2015年减少了3,000万美元，达到5.1万亿美元。

这项研究由财富管理机构瑞士联合银行（UBS）和咨询公司普华永道（PwC）联合发起，针对14个大型市场。研究指出，如此一来，这些富翁（他们在2015年增加了50人，达到1,397人）的平均资产只有37亿美元了。

报告写道：“20余年来，财富的创造速度前所未有，而如今，第二个‘镀金时代’的光辉已经消逝。”

美国的亿万富翁仅仅增加了5名，有41人加入了这个行列，又有36人掉出。而由于科技领域的蓬勃发展，光中国就诞生了80位新的超级富豪。

报告建议亚洲的新晋富豪从欧洲的同伴那里学习。在欧洲，很大一部分旧有财富会通过继承的方式代代相传。在德国和瑞士，这种继承方式造就的富翁比例最高。

研究还发现， 20年前所未有的财富积累造就的这一代，即将引领史上最大规模的财富转移浪潮。

据估计，在接下来的20年内，其中的不到500名富豪将把2.1万亿美元传给他们的继承者。这笔财富的规模相当于印度的国内生产总值。（财富中文网）

译者：严匡正

Billionaires on average became poorer last year as their collective fortunes shrank, even as Asia continued to crank out a new billionaire nearly every three days, a study released on Thursday found.

Transfers of assets within families, falling commodity prices and a stronger dollar helped reduce total billionaire wealth by $300 billion in 2015 to $5.1 trillion.

That meant the average billionaire — there were 1,397 of them, a net gain of 50 over 2014 — was worth only $3.7 billion, the survey of 14 big markets by Swiss wealth manager UBS and advisory group PwC discovered.

“After more than 20 years of unprecedented wealth creation, the Second Gilded Age has stalled,” the report found.

The United States added only a net five billionaires as 41 joined and 36 dropped out of the ranks of the ultra-rich. China alone, buoyed by its tech sector, minted 80 new billionaires.

It suggested Asia’s newly rich could learn from their counterparts in Europe, where old money is especially adept at passing wealth down the generations. Germany and Switzerland had the greatest share of such old wealth.

Two decades of unparalleled fortune generation are about to make way for the greatest wealth transfer in history, the study also found.

It estimated that fewer than 500 people will hand over $2.1 trillion — a sum the size of India’s economy — to their heirs in the next 20 years.