Rich List 2017: UK’s super-rich carry on making billions

‘The UK’s richest 1,000 people “kept calm and carried on making billions” amid the Brexit vote of 2016, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.
Their wealth rose by 14% over the past year to a record £658bn, it shows.
Brothers Sri and Gopi Hinduja, who invest in property, healthcare and oil and gas, top this year’s list with £16.2bn – up £3.2bn on 2016.
The list includes a record number of British billionaires – 134 – with 14 new ones emerging over the last year.
List compiler Robert Watts said: “While many of us worried about the outcome of the EU referendum, many of Britain’s richest people just kept calm and carried on making billions.”
He said a revived stock market had been behind the surge in wealth for the super-rich.’
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