Chapter 1006 Forbes 2006
"Brother Xu, look, the Forbes 2005 rich list has been updated, and you are second again."
Liu Qianqian rushed into Xu Liang while shouting. study room.
Waving a copy of Qilu Evening News in his hand.
Forbes’ report was reprinted on the financial page.
Not surprisingly, No. 1 is Gates, who has ranked first in the world for 12 consecutive years with a net worth of US$50 billion.
He is still in second place, worth $47.9 billion.
Third is Laoba, with US$42 billion.
The rankings are the same as last year, except that the net worth of the three people has changed.
Mexican telecom giant Carlos Slim ranked fourth with a net worth of US$30 billion, and Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal retired from fourth place on the last list with a net worth of US$23.5 billion. Ranked sixth.
Swedish IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad ranks fourth with a net worth of $28 billion.
The seventh place is Paul Allen, one of the founders of Microsoft, with a net worth of US$22 billion.
Louis Vuitton Chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault is ranked eighth with a net worth of 21.5 billion.
Saudi tycoon Prince Alwaleed bin Talal ranked ninth with $20 billion, and Canadian publishing tycoon Kenneth Thomson ranked tenth with $19.6 billion.
Yangtze River Lao Li ranked 11th with US$18.8 billion.
Larry Ellison, who was still ranked in the top fifteen last year, has fallen out of the top twenty due to the huge losses of Dragon Slaying Plan.
In addition to the global rich list, the newspaper also has the Forbes China Rich List.
He is still undoubtedly the number one.
Behind him is Gome Lao Huang, with 18 billion Chinese coins.
Third is Xu Rongmao of Shimao Group, worth 17.3 billion Chinese dollars.
Shi Zhengrong of Suntech Power, who is ranked eighth, has a net worth of more than 10 billion.
The combined net worth of all of them is less than that of Xu Liang.
Even so, major media still question the authenticity of this Forbes rich list.
The reason also lies with Xu Liang.
Most people think it is too little.
Xu Liang’s assets have been listed.
The one with the highest market value is Master Kong. After absorbing China Wine Industry, Master Kong’s market value has climbed to HK$230 billion.
Followed by Sina, with 152.7 billion Hong Kong dollars.
Yihaodian ranks third, with a market value of HK$142.8 billion.
Unocal ranks fourth with HK$131.5 billion.
New Dream ranked fifth with HK$92.1 billion.
Internet technology ranked sixth, with HK$55.7 billion.
The total market value of these six major listed companies exceeded HK$850 billion.
Except Sina, which holds 34% of the shares, and Netcom, which holds more than half of the shares, the other shareholdings are around 75%.
After all, there are 500 billion Hong Kong dollars.
According to the exchange rate of Hong Kong dollars to US dollars, this amount is close to 65 billion US dollars.
What's more, Bing, Hongmeng's most valuable company, has not yet been listed, and Hanhua, a global private equity giant with an average annual profit of tens of billions of dollars, has not been listed either.
Taihua Group, the largest real estate company and retail company in China.
The world's largest social networking site Facebook.
Vivendi, the pan-entertainment and public utility giant.
Hynix, the world's second largest memory chip giant.
Universal Entertainment, one of the six giants in Hollywood.
No matter how you calculate it, it’s more than that amount of money.
Soon "Forbes" also gave an explanation.
"Mr. Xu Liang has established a number of trust funds. Enterprises such as Hanhua, Hongmeng, Master Kong, Taihua, Facebook, Vivendi, and Unocal have all been placed under the umbrella of multiple heritage trust funds and benefited from them. The person is his family and many descendants, so it is not recorded in the name of Mr. Xu Liang
This time, only 14.9% of Apple, 15.2% of Amazon, 36.7% of Standard Chartered Bank, 15% of Hermès and other equity assets held by Mr. Xu’s family fund were adopted, as well as companies such as the NBA Warriors, Marvel, and Harvest Agriculture. ”
Forbes’ explanation settled the dispute, but also shifted many people’s attention to the legacy trust fund established by Xu Liang.
This is a sum worth more than 100 billion U.S. dollars.
Many people are curious about who Xu Liang distributed this huge amount of assets to.
However, all witnesses of the heritage trust fund have signed confidentiality agreements. >
The management agency of these heritage trust funds is Hongyan's 'Hengyuan Trust', so unless someone can buy out the senior management of Hongyan or Hengyuan, they will not be able to get the original documents placed in the company's safe.
The reason why Forbes knows this.
The main reason is that the list of shareholders of listed companies is public, even if the trust fund does not directly hold the equity of the listed company, but has a shell.
But if you really want to check it, it won’t be difficult for Forbes.
After all, companies need to register.
"It has no reference value. It's all for entertaining the public."
Throwing the newspaper aside casually.
"Where's Shuchang?"
"Practice yoga in the room."
Hold her slender waist, "You can also practice when you have time, all day long You can eat it so much, but be careful about getting fat.”
"Yeah, you dislike me."
"How can I dislike you? You insist on staying in the entertainment industry. Which female star have you seen gain weight?"
"Okay, then I’ll eat less in the future.”
“Exercise is the most important thing. I still want to grow old with you in the future.”
The woman’s heart felt as sweet as honey.
"Brother Xu, I want to grow old together with you."
"Then you have to exercise well. Look at me, I practice boxing every day and my body is even better." "Okay, then I Work out tomorrow too. ”
“There are so many tomorrows, go ahead and let Shuchang teach you yoga.”
At his urging, Liu Qianqian left reluctantly.
Looking at the newspaper on the table, Xu Liang picked it up and flipped through it, then took out his cell phone and called Xie Wen.
“Mr. The weight of all comment articles will be adjusted to the lowest level. ”
"Okay."
Xu Liang doesn't want his wealth to be the focus of everyone's attention.
Although this idea is a bit unrealistic, it can reduce the attention a little bit.
“How are the talks about Bing’s listing going?”
“It’s basically settled. JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Hanhua are responsible for Bing’s listing. Morgan and Goldman Sachs are responsible for the European and American markets. , Hanhua is responsible for the Asian market
It was officially listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on September 1.
Bing has a total share capital of 3 billion, at HK$206 per share, issuing 450 million shares, cashing out 150 million old shares and 300 million new shares.
Mr. Xu, do we have to be listed in Xiangjiang? Morgan and Goldman Sachs recommended we list on Nasdaq.
The market will give us a higher valuation here. ”
The U.S. capital market does have more potential than Hong Kong.
But what Xu Liang is worried about is the future trade war.
Xu Liang pondered for a moment, "Let's take half of the equity and list it on Nasdaq."
The trade war is still far away, and by then it may not have the same value as it does now. .
“Okay.”
Xie Wen breathed a sigh of relief.
Hang up the phone.
Xu Liang breathed out.
Let Bing be listed this year, and Kingsoft and Hongmeng Games will be listed next year.
There are almost no companies under Hongmeng that are suitable for listing.
Pangu’s main business is cloud computing and big data, which are just developing now and are still five or six years away from being truly mature.
DreamWorks Animation is suitable for listing, but Hongmeng’s main business has eliminated pan-entertainment.
When Facebook develops, sell DreamWorks Animation to it.
Universal Pictures handled it the same way.
Youku [YouTube] has been losing money. When the video business becomes popular and it officially starts to make profits, it will not be too late to consider going public.
Hongmeng Pay is only a prototype now and is still early to mature.
The Hongmeng mobile phone system is still in the laboratory.
Dingle bell...
Xu Liang’s cell phone rang.
“Mr. Xu, it’s me.”
Qiu Mingcheng’s voice came over.
"What about Shuanghui?"
"Yes. ...The bid we submitted was returned. They said that Luohe City had as many as 13 requirements for the transferee of Shuanghui Group.
In addition to requiring that the asset size of the transferee must be more than RMB 50 billion and that the entire property rights transfer price must be paid in one go;
it is also required that the transferee must be an internationally renowned industrial investment fund group or "Industrial investment enterprise", "and has global investment experience and network"
And specifically emphasizes that this consortium cannot be a hedge fund or industrial enterprise.
Therefore, only international investment banks are eligible to purchase.
Domestic and foreign food companies or other powerful enterprise groups are forcibly excluded.
So Harvest Agriculture does not meet the other party's requirements.
No matter how high we bid, we can't buy it. ”
Xu Liang thought about it briefly and understood what was going on.
"It seems that Shuanghui Group is not planning to really sell, but is planning to play MBO."
"You still have a clever plan. According to our investigation, there are two 'special' companies surrounding Shuanghui, one was established in 2002 Haihui Investment, and the other two companies are Haiyu Investment, which was established in 2003.
All 50 shareholders of Haihui are senior executives of Shuanghui; as for Haiyu, it is very mysterious, and there is no one there yet. Know who the beneficiary is."
Xu Liang curled his lips.
In fact, there is no need to investigate this so-called mysterious company. It must be a collusion between government and businessmen.
Shuanghui has grown so big, Xu Liang would not believe it if there was no one to protect it.
“According to public information, Haiyu first appeared in public view on the third day of Haiyu’s establishment, which was June 13, 2003.
On this day, Shuanghui Group signed an "Equity Transfer Agreement" with Haiyu, transferring the 85.5925 million shares it held (accounting for 25% of the total share capital) at a price of 4.7 yuan per share, and Haiyu became the second largest shareholder of Shuanghui Development. .
In just three years since the establishment of Haihui, Haihui has achieved an after-tax net profit of 130 million through investment and holdings in 18 companies related to the upstream and downstream businesses of Shuanghui meat products. Yuan.
At the same time, in the past two years, Shuanghui Development made 10 cash dividends of 7 yuan and 10 cash dividends of 6 yuan.
In these two years alone, Haiyu received 136.948 million yuan (tax included) in cash dividends.
In 2005, Shuanghui Development made another 10 cash dividends of 5 yuan, but there was no specific cash amount.
In addition, according to our investigation, in 2005 alone the net profits contributed by the seven companies Haiyu invested in reached 107 million yuan.
In 2003 and 2004, the net profit created by related companies for Haiyu was conservatively estimated to be around 200 million yuan.
The excessive dividend distribution is undoubtedly a blood transfusion for MBO.
(End of this chapter)