UBS Billionaire Ambitions Report 2025: Record $15.8 Trillion in Billionaires’ Wealth and a Historic Inheritance Wave
Published: December 8, 2025 The world has never had more billionaires—or more money concentrated in so few hands. According to UBS’s new Billionaire Ambitions Report 2025, global billionaire wealth has surged to an all‑time high of $15.8 trillion, spread across 2,919 individuals, up 13% in just twelve months and 8.8% more billionaires than a year earlier.Poder360+1 What makes this edition of the report especially significant is not just the headline number, but the way that wealth is being created—and passed on. A powerful combination of new self‑made fortunes and the largest inheritance wave on record is reshaping the very top of the global wealth pyramid. Record-breaking billionaire