Thread: 300 billionaires are also immigrants

300 billionaires are also immigrants

by Rishi Iyengar @IyengarishMarch 23, 2017: 1:44 PM ET



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Germany, India and China are great at producing billionaires -- but not so good at keeping them.

More than 80 of the world's wealthiest individuals were born in one of these three countries but now live abroad, according to new research from Hurun Report.

Germany tops the list: 31 billionaires of German origin have migrated to another country, followed by India (30), greater China (24), the U.K. (16), U.S. (13) and Italy (11).

In total, Hurun Report said that 300 -- that's 13% -- of the world's billionaires no longer live in the country of their birth.

Related: India's cash crisis left it with 11 fewer billionaires

Billionaires on the move appear to have preferred destinations -- nearly half the German billionaires are based in Switzerland, while India's super wealthy have predominantly settled in the U.A.E. and the U.K. Meanwhile, nine Chinese billionaires have migrated to the U.S., while five each reside in Singapore and the Philippines.

The U.S., however, is the top overall destination for immigrant billionaires, with 73 of them now calling the country home. That includes Google's (GOOGL, Tech30) Russian-born co-founder Sergey Brin, whose net worth of $36 billion makes him the world's richest immigrant.

This is the first year that Hurun Report has produced the ranking of immigrants.

"Immigration is polarizing nations today," Hurun Report chairman Rupert Hoogewerf said in a statement. "This report is designed to give an insight into how immigrants have contributed to global wealth creation."

The report said that 32% of immigrant billionaires left their home countries before adulthood. Twenty-seven percent moved after making their fortunes.

Related: The billionaires club shrank by 283 last year

Of course, many of the richest billionaires are perfectly happy at home. The report estimates that 40% of billionaires -- including Microsoft founder and world's richest man Bill Gates, renowned U.S. investor Warren Buffett, and Alibaba chairman Jack Ma -- still live and work in the same city where they grew up.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/23/pf/i...commended_pool

You mean GOOGLE'S OLIGARCH has TIES TO RUSSIA??!!! Oh Lord, get the feds on him!

What a bunch of hypocrites.

Sergey Brin

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This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Mikhaylovich and the family name is Brin.

Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin in 2008
Born	Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin Серге́й Миха́йлович Брин August 21, 1973 (age 43) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union[1]
Residence	Los Altos, California, U.S.
Nationality	American
Citizenship	American Soviet (1973–79)
Alma mater	University of Maryland (B.S) Stanford University (M.S)
Occupation	Computer scientist, Internet entrepreneur
Known for	Co-founder of Google Directing of Google X
Salary	One-dollar salary[2]
Net worth	US$38.4 billion (January 2017)[3]
Title	President of Alphabet Inc
Spouse(s)	Anne Wojcicki (m. 2007; div. 2015)[4][5]
Children	2
Website	plus.google.com/+SergeyBrin
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Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin (Russian: Серге́й Миха́йлович Брин; born August 21, 1973) is an American computer scientist, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist.^{[citation needed]} Together with Larry Page, he co-founded Google. Brin is the President of Google's parent company Alphabet Inc. In October 2016 (the most recent period for which figures are available), Brin was the 12th richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$39.2 billion.^[6]

Brin immigrated to the United States with his family from the Soviet Union at the age of 6. He earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Maryland, following in his father's and grandfather's footsteps by studying mathematics, as well as computer science. After graduation, he moved to Stanford University to acquire a PhD in computer science. There he met Page, with whom he later became friends. They crammed their dormitory room with inexpensive computers and applied Brin's data mining system to build a web search engine. The program became popular at Stanford, and they suspended their PhD studies to start up Google in a rented garage.

The Economist referred to Brin as an "Enlightenment Man", and as someone who believes that "knowledge is always good, and certainly always better than ignorance", a philosophy that is summed up by Google's mission statement, "Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful,"^[7][8] and unofficial yet sometimes controversial motto, "Don't be evil".<sup>[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin</sup>

TIES TO RUSSIA!!! The whole family is a bunch of SPIES and HILLARY SOCIALIST SHRILLS from the SOVIET UNION!! "DATA MINING" .... been spying on US for years. SHAME!

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/0...nton-campaign/