By Fortune/Wealth-X If business mogul Donald Trump did not crack the top 50, then you just know how really affluent those on the list are. Bills Gates photograph courtesy of Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images A fresh list of the wealthiest people in the world is out, and is it any surprise who claimed the number one spot? Bill Gates, Microsoft’s co-founder and one of the richest people in human history, once again comes out on top, with a net worth of $87.4 billion. Wealth-X, a wealth-tracking website, provided Business Insider with its newest figures on the assets of the ultra-rich. Wealth-X collects information on more than 110,000 ultra-high-net-worth people, according to BI, tracking each person’s assets and adjusting “to account for currency-exchange rates, local taxes, savings rates, investment performance, and other factors.” Profile photo of Sr. Amancio Ortega courtesy of famousplaces.com Gates crushes the second place finisher, Spain’s Amancio Ortega, by more than $20 billion. Ortega, founding [...]
