China’s richest man lost $3.6 billion in a single day after global stock markets tanked and Chinese markets erased all their gains for the year.
Wang Jianlin, chairman and founder of property and entertainment company Dalian Wanda, lost more than 10 percent of his total wealth on Monday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which tracks the world’s richest people.
Shanghai shares Monday collapsed by 8.49 percent, the biggest daily loss since 2007, sparking a vast sell-off in global financial markets as concerns mounted that a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy could hurt global growth.
Shanghai fell an additional 7.63 percent on Tuesday.
The close was the lowest since
December 15 last year — and below the symbolically significant 3,000
point mark — while Bloomberg News said it marked the steepest four-day
rout since 1996.
Wang was the biggest loser at
the end of trading on Monday, according to the index, which updates at
the end of each day. Figures for Tuesday were not immediately available.
Despite the loss, his wealth has
increased by $6 billion this year. China’s second richest person Jack
Ma, founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba, lost only $545 million on
Monday, according to the index.
Beijing launched a huge rescue
package after shares collapsed in June, which has included funding the
China Securities Finance Corp. to buy stocks on behalf of the government
and barring major shareholders from selling their stakes.
In the latest move, Beijing said
on Sunday it would allow the state pension fund — which had 3.5
trillion yuan ($548 billion) of assets at the end of 2014 — to buy
stocks.
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