The Forbes super rich list.

The Forbes new league table of the super rich is out. At the top of the pile again is Bill Gates the founder of Microsoft. He has an estimated fortune of $86 billion. The accumulated riches of all these people is many trillions of dollars. There was an increase of some 13% to 2043 billionaires compared to last year. They came mainly from China which has witnessed the biggest increase of wealth. Their wealth comes from a variety of sources like media, entertainment, technology, food outlets, transportation, hedge fund managers, pharmaceuticals etc. So there are many ways to the top table.