Peruvians Eduardo Hochschild and Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor both made it onto Forbes’ 2012 World’s Billionaire List.
Hochschild ranks 578, with a net worth of $2.2 billion. The magazine remarks that Hochschild’s source of wealth is mainly from his inheritance and from his family’s mining and cement businesses.
Hochschild Mining trades on the London Stock Exchange, and has mining operations in Mexico, Argentina and Peru.
Forbes’ also mentions his other company, Cementos Pacasmayo, one of Peru’s largest publicly traded cement companies, which recently listed its shares on the New York Stock Exchange.
Rodriguez-Pastor ranks 634 on the list, with an estimated net worth of $2 billion. The magazine says Rodriguez-Pastor “has created an empire that spans anything a consumer could never need in his birth nation.”
Rodriguez-Pastor is chairman of IFH Peru, which is present in virtually all areas of the country's banking sector, owns supermarket chains, fast food restaurants, movie theatres, real estate firms, pharmacies, and financial services companies.
Mexico’s Carlos Slim, with a $69 billion net worth, heads Forbes’ 2012 World’s Billionaire List, followed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates with $61 billion, and Berkshire Hathaway CEO, Warren Buffet with $44 billion.
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