Chapter 291
Chapter 291 2001 Forbes list published
As one of the most famous cities in the world, London, the capital of the United Kingdom, is always known as the foggy city.
On the territory of this city there are more than a hundred foggy days every year.
Dense foggy weather covers the four seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
Luckily, August is the best month in London.
London fog in August is also the most beautiful time for fog. Early in the morning, at 1 Garden Street in Kensington Palace, a light mist enveloped the courtyard.
It was vaguely invisible, like a flower fairy in the forest dancing a light curtain.
Soft sunlight shines on the flowers and trees in the yard, and the lush green foliage.
The garden is full of grass, the famous flower clusters are carefully cared for, bathed in sunlight, smiling, the dew drops on the petals shine brightly under the reflection of the sunrise.
In the morning dew, Abel returned to the living room after exercising for a while. It's only eight o'clock in the morning and baby Laura still hasn't woken up.
Abel also did not bother her. After showering, he changed into more formal clothes and left for Garden No. 1 of Kensington Palace.
The convoy ran for about ten minutes and quickly arrived in London without traffic jams.
At this small one-square-mile site in the heart of London, the most famous financial and economic giants of the UK and even the world have come together. In a place where every square centimeter of land is expensive, there are more than 500 foreign banks and more than 180 foreign stock trading centers.
More than 300,000 financial elites work here in collaboration with British banks and stock exchanges with a long history.
Of the world's 500 largest multinational companies, 75% have established branches or offices there.
When the convoy arrived, Abel looked out the car window and saw many people on the road who seemed to be giving speeches so early in the morning.
David in the co-pilot noticed his boss's eyes and he said easily:
"They were giving a campaign speech for Mayor of London. It would be like this for days. »
"The mayor's campaign speech? Abel asked curiously:
"Mayor of London? The current Mayor of London seems to be Livingstone? Wait, didn't this person just take office last year?"
"Correct." David Jones in the front smiled: "Livingstone is the mayor of London. But whoever runs here is the mayor of London here."
"What do you mean?" Abel asked curiously: "Is there still a mayor of London here?" Two London mayors?
David Jones immediately explained this to his boss. Simply put, London has two mayors.
One is the Mayor of the City of London and the other is the Lord Mayor of the City of London.
The Lord Mayor of the City of London and Lord Mayor of London hold two different offices in the United Kingdom.
The former has a long history and is the head of the City of London, in central London.
The latter was founded at the end of the 20th century and heads the whole of Greater London. The Mayor of the City of London has a separate office from the Mayor of London and has a much longer history than the Mayor of Greater London.
In addition, this square kilometer area also has its own court, nearly a thousand police officers and a strict management system.
Even according to the provisions of the British Royal Charter, even when the Queen of England "supreme power" enters the city, she must first get the consent of the Mayor of London.
At the exit of the Financial City subway, people can see eye-catching signs denoting the jurisdiction of the Financial City, and even the unique symbol of the Financial City government is present. engraved on the iconic "fence" of the Financial City.
There is a distinctly pastoral flavor to this country, as if to say that this place does not belong to London, or even to the British. It is therefore true that modern financial capital originated in London.
The City of London's unique regulations are clearly what happened when the capital began taking over from the royal family.
Otherwise, with the majesty of feudal kingship, how could such a thing happen?
This type of country in the country later became traditional and was handed down for many years.
After hearing David mention these suggestions, Abel could only lament that the democratic countries of Europe and America were too troublesome. The ordinary Mayor of Greater London is only elected every four years.
The mayor of Little London, in this financial city, is elected once a year and the election lasts for half a month.
The term is only one year, in other words, it takes more than 300 days to change a mayor.
What can a mayor do with such little time? Most of them can only follow Tieu Quy Thao and cannot do anything. Abel said this is similar to what Humphrey said: "The advantage of democracy is that no one is responsible. »
This type of cuisine is clearly a favorite of financial capital.
Xiaozhengfu has gone to the extreme, with no real rights, only obligations.
It is the capitalists' preferred government.
After David's suggestion ended, Abel's convoy also arrived in front of a skyscraper in "Square Mile".
The location of this building is the Fury Building at 19 Fenchurch Street, London. It is 15 stories high. It looks somewhat historic and belongs to the middle and end of the last century.
The area of each floor of the Furui Building is about 1,000 square meters.
Last month, the UK branch of real estate company Abel's New Start bought floors 13, 14 and 15 here for £18 million.
After that, three floors were leased to two companies, Smith Capital (UK) and Smith Media (UK). Among them, Smith Media (UK) occupies two floors.
Smith Capital (UK) at 15.
Abel comes to London, main office here.
But the three-story building was rented not long ago.
In recent days, the 15th floor has been hastily installed, allowing Smith Capital (UK) to move into the office right away. Therefore, currently the 13th and 14th floors are still being renovated and Smith Media (UK) has not officially moved in yet.
The 15th floor of the building is the headquarters of Smith Capital (UK).
The company is jointly controlled by Smith Capital and Abel. Smith Capital owns 60% of the shares and Abel personally owns 40% of the shares. It is registered in Ireland. The company's workforce currently numbers more than one hundred people.
Of those, about 50 people were half recruited and half deployed by Smith Capital and sent from New York.
The remaining fifty were recruited locally in London and most of them were hired by headhunters.
At the beginning of the 21st century, British elites were just like American elites.
The smartest people in both countries discovered that engineering and science were useless. After graduation, they work the most and earn the least.
However, not only does this and the finances seem easy to do, but the salary is higher than the other.
Furthermore, after Mrs. Thatcher carried out financial reform, Britain then implemented a national policy of building the country through finance and placed finance very highly.
So gradually smart people from the UK are sneaking into the financial sector. A "Square Mile", i.e. the City of London, has approximately 300,000 financial professionals.
There are several places like this in London. For example, Canary Wharf, not far from here.
In other words, Britain's smartest people, hundreds of thousands of them, have gone into finance.
So can't Britain's finances be strong? So Britain is not weak in other areas?
So this can't end?
Recruiting financial elites is easier in Britain than on Wall Street.
After a few days, not everyone from Capital Smith Wall Street arrived.
All locally recruited Londoners or Europeans arrived. He works here under the direction of Jed, one of the presidents of Smith Capital headquarters.
Jed, Chairman of Smith Capital, was also appointed by Abel as CEO of Smith Capital (UK).
As long as everything goes well, Jed will likely become the main manager of Smith Capital in Europe in the future.
With an office area of more than 1,000 square meters, it is not very spacious to accommodate more than 100 people.
This makes Abel's office here not very spacious, just over 100 square meters. Taking David and the Four King Kongs with him, Abel went straight to his British office.
As always, there is a large bay window in his office.
This was not only Abel's personal preference but also that of most business and professional elites.
They always like to stand in front of the French windows of high-rise skyscrapers and look down at every living creature on the ground.
This will give these types of people an idea of the scene at a glance. This seems to have raised their level.
Right after that, I sat down at my desk.
Jed, CEO of Smith Capital (UK), walked in with a bright smile after knocking on the door.
"Hello Jed, hello." Abel smiled and greeted him.
Jed is an elite Wall Street figure hired by Smith Capital this year as it expands its roster. It turned out to be the head of the futures department at Bear Stone, one of the six major investment banks on Wall Street (plus a Smith).
After coming to Smith Capital, thanks to his ability and qualifications, he immediately became the second deputy director.
Today, he was promoted even higher and became CEO of Smith Capital's London branch.
"Hello chef." Jed smiled respectfully, holding in his hand a thick object that looked like a book. "And that?"
"What?" Abel was curious and motioned for Edward to take it.
"It's Forbes magazine. The latest issue of the "Forbes Ranking" was just released this morning on a global scale. »
"OH?" Abel was also a little curious and took the magazine Edward gave him.
The "Forbes List" published by "Forbes" magazine is not just a long list of names, along with the assets of these people.
This could be to show seriousness and professionalism or to gain more sales.
Each year, the "Forbes Ranking List" is a special supplementary issue published outside of "Forbes" magazine.
is a new magazine that mainly covers the world's richest people and only has one issue per year. In this magazine, detailed data of each giant sought by the magazine company will be listed.
It's so detailed that almost every rich person has it. Instead of saying it's a magazine, it's actually a book.
Therefore, it seems relatively thick, with over 400 pages and over 200 sheets.
"Have you finished reading it?" Abel is holding the latest issue of the "Forbes Ranking" and asks Jed to open it immediately. "Correct." Jed kept smiling, very happy.
"Who is the richest person this year?" » Abel said smiling.
"Please let me keep it a secret." "You can tell just by looking at it," Jed said to the boss with a smile and respect. The richest person is on the fourth page.
The first page is the cover, the second page is the table of contents, the third page is the preface, the fourth page is the official content.
That said, Abel also wants to know how much money Forbes says he has. He turned straight to the table of contents on the second page, which contained detailed instructions.
Abel looked at him.
1. Finance Moses – Abel Smith
2. Lord at that time: William Henry Gates III
3. King of investing and value: Warren Buffett
4. Playboy-Paul Allen
5. The paranoid man at the gate - Larry Ellison
6. German retail kings - Albrecht brothers
7. Buffett-Walid Desert
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387. Red capitalist – Yiren Rong
452. King of Asian Gambling: Hongshen He
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I roughly went through the directory.
Even if Abel knew his name, he would definitely come out on top.
But he didn't expect that either. This year, "Forbes" ranked as the richest person in the world. At the first sight of his name, Abel felt a bit stunned.
Even if he actually knows it, the richest person in the world listed by Forbes is often not actually the richest person in the world.
Those who truly secretly control the world will never make this list.
The richest people in the world listed in this magazine are at best just appearances.
The so-called richest person in the world is used by "Forbes" to increase magazine sales and attract public attention. Before the title of richest person in the world, Abel thinks we should add the prefix "Forbes", meaning Forbes is the richest person in the world.
Here's the truth about the man said to be the richest in the world.
Even though Abel knew it, in that moment he saw that he was in first place.
He still couldn't help but feel a little happy and excited.
No matter how good, the richest person in the world is also the richest person in the world in name. Even if the real financial resources and influence have not yet reached the level of number one on the planet.
However, at least 99% of humanity in the world acknowledges this title and aspires to it!
In the past, even if I told you, I wouldn't have cared.
But Abel knew that when he received this title.
My own influence and "motivation" can be considered a real achievement!
Abel took a deep breath, suppressing his slightly excited mood.
He turned to the third page of this thick magazine, the preface. The preface of "Forbes Ranking" does not invite any editors, writers, etc.
Obviously in front of these people in this magazine.
No matter how famous the great writers in the world are, it seems they will lack confidence in front of these people.
The preface of this magazine, "Forbes", has just listed data on the assets of many of the world's richest people surveyed. For example, in 2001, "Forbes" expanded its selection of the world's richest people.
The number of billionaire clubs increased this year from 482 in 2000 to 539.
The average age of the 539 billionaires on the list is 62, of which 32 are under 40 years old.
The youngest is Abel Smith, 21 years old, the second youngest is Daniel Ziv.
The average net worth of these 539 people is $3.2 billion. If you add up their total assets, it comes to $1.73 trillion.
The UK, exceeding last year's GDP of $1.66 trillion, is truly a "rich nation".
Among billionaires in 2001, the United States had the largest number, reaching 272 people, or more than 51%.
Europe 23%, Asia 14%.
The Americas excluding the United States 8%; Middle East and Africa 4%. Neon lost 14 billionaires but still ranked second with 29 people on the list.
Germany ranked third with 28 people on the list; Italy ranked 4th with 17 people on the list; Switzerland ranked 5th with 16 people on the list.
China has the highest number of billionaires on Hong Kong Island, with 14 billionaires, one more than in 2000.
This kind of preface was concise and clear, Abel read it a few more times before turning to the fourth page.
On the fourth page, a photo of him appeared. This photo of Abel has prints.
He remembered that this photo was taken by the top photographer of the New York Observer during his first interview.
In this photo, he was sitting on the 33rd floor of the Woolworth building at that time.
This is the former headquarters of Smith Capital, on the throne of the president's office.
In front of him is a wide dark wooden desk, behind the floor-to-ceiling window behind him are the busy skyscrapers in Manhattan, blue sky and white clouds. He was wearing a black suit, sitting upright, his upper body tall and straight, his arms folded on the table and his eyes facing forward.
In the photo, his perfectly handsome face is expressionless but full of upper class style, he looks like the so-called Wall Street elite.
This photo doesn't capture his aura.
Of course, Abel didn't have much motivation at that time.
At that time, he even felt a little stupid. At that time, high-end photographers could only choose to highlight her beauty and elite style.
It does not create such majestic grandeur at all.
But since his photo is public, he doesn't need to pay royalties and it's the only photo.
So this photo became the photo that the media would choose when news about Abel was republished in America, and even around the world.
Over time, this photo that looks like a still from a Wall Street movie, taken in Hollywood, became most people around the world's first impression of him.
"Forbes" is probably afraid of trouble or doesn't want to pay royalties. Obviously, in the later stages Abel has more and more beautiful photos, which can highlight the temperament of a big man.
"Forbes" magazine selected this photo, choosing this photo to look like a photo from a Hollywood movie.
In this photo, Abel is more handsome and a member of the Wall Street elite.
There is also confidence and vitality throughout the body.
The video does not have the temperament of many big men, financial giants or business tycoons. He looks like a big star in a movie.
Abel was a little unhappy after seeing it.
Compared to his big brother's temperament, he doesn't want to have the temperament of a star.
"I don't have a domineering temperament."
He couldn't help but mutter, then looked at the number next to his name: 70 billion USD.
billion is an English word that essentially means "billion". $ This symbol is the dollar sign.
Seventy billion dollars means seventy billion dollars.
this symbol, I don't know what Forbes does.
This year's "Forbes List" list of "Forbes" magazine said he has a net worth of $60 billion.
(end of this chapter)