The 5 Richest Women of the Modern Times

According to finance investment companies in Delhi, India, when it comes to world’s richest woman people tend to assume that they these women either inherited it from their parents or married in to it. Well, definitely most of them received a massive head start in their life by being born to rich parents, but they took the fortune they inherited to the next level by working hard with what they had, and making it grow in to even more. If you go through their history, you would realize that these are the overly rich kids who decided to be disciplined and work hard, rather than reducing the fortune on unproductive pleasure time.

The finance investment companies in Delhi, India are of the opinion that the names in the list of richest woman are even more powerful than the leaders of their own countries. This is so because their bank accounts can actually buy them a country to their own. Here’s a list of five of the richest women in the world today which proves that females can play better than the big boys sitting on top of the corporate ladder.

Liliane Bettencourt: Peak Wealth/Global GDP, 0.055%

If you’ve ever bought skin vitalizing cream at the bodyshop or applied Maybelline lipstick before leaving the house, you have contributed to the fortune of this L’Oreal heiress, whose wealth peaked at $40.7 billion in 2015. Liliane Bettencourt have retired now, but she‘s now a principal shareholder in the cosmetics company founded by her father in 1907. Under her supervision, L’Oreal also acquired other brands like Lancome in 1964, as well as blockbuster products like the fragrance “Polo” by Ralph Lauren in 1985.

Yang Huiyan: Peak Wealth/Global GDP 0.025%

Although the business world was hit very badly by recession in 2007, but some of the luckiest entrepreneurs were very positively influenced by it as Yang Huiyan. This Chinese heiress started off with a $ 16.2 billion fortune from her father – Yang Guoqiang, founder of property developer Country Garden. After the financial crisis, her net worth plummeted and now the net worth of her business is $5.2 billion.

Susanne Klatten: Peak Wealth/Global GDP: 0.024%

She is Germany’s richest woman and built most of her $ 17.4 billion fortune from one of country’s most lucrative brands – BMW. Klatten inherited a 12.6% stake in the luxury auto brand from her late father, Herbert Quandt. Apart from this Klatten also invests in multiple business ventures.

 

Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken: Peak Wealth/Global GDP: 0.017%

Charlene De Carvalho is the only child of Freddy Heineken, who served as CEO of the world’s third largest brewer from 1971 to 1989. Without any formal education this Dutch brewery tycoon falls in the list of world’s richest woman by inheriting her 25% stake in Heineken International at the time of her father’s death.

Anne Cox Chambers Peak Wealth/Global GDP: 0.021%

Cox Chambers was a media mogul, this Georgia resident’s fortune comes from Cox Enterprises that was owned by her father. Cox Enterprises owns news outlets such as the Atlanta Journal – Constitution and the Palm Beach Post. But, most of its revenue comes from its telecommunications division, holding one of the nation’s largest cable television providers. However, in November 2015, the now-96-year-old businesswoman stepped down from the board, distributing her stake – that amounted to a fortune of $ 15.3 billion.