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List of wealthiest families

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Various lists of the richest families (excluding royal families or autocratic ruling dynasties) are published internationally, by Forbes[1][2] as well as other business magazines.

There is a distinction between wealth held by identifiable individual billionaires or a "nuclear family" and the wider notion of an extended family or a historical "dynasty," where the wealth of a historically family-owned company or business like the Scudder family has become distributed between various branches of descendants,[3] usually throughout decades, ranging from several individuals to hundreds of offspring (such as the Rothschild family). According to Bloomberg, the world's 25 richest families control more than $1.4 trillion (1,400,000,000,000) of wealth.[4]

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Not included in the scope of this page are royal families, for which see List of royalty by net worth.

Note: The list includes families who, according to reliable sources, have a combined net worth of 5 billion US dollars and above.

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Historical

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Further information: List of banking families

Excluding royal dynasties and land-owning aristocracy, the wealthiest families since the emergence of banking and early capitalism in the Italian Renaissance were:[citation needed]

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Notes

  1. The $278 billion in assets include charitable foundations and other investment vehicles which are not owned by individual shareholders but still retain successive management.
  2. Approximately euro to dollar conversion rate as of September 2019
  3. Approximately euro to dollar conversion rate as of September 2018[19]
  4. In March 2017, Tharawat Magazine reported that approximately one thousand family members co-own the holding company Association Familiale Mulliez.[26]

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