She’s the new face of young money.
Meet Alexandra Andresen, the youngest billionaire in the world, valued at $1.2 billion just out of high school.
At 19, the Norwegian heiress debuted on the Forbes list of the world’s billionaires on Tuesday as the 1,476th richest person in the world.
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At that ranking, she’s tied on the list with her 20-year-old sister, Katharina Andresen.
The billionaire sisters each own 42.2% of their family’s investment company Ferd.
“Their fortune is all inherited, but it is remarkable that the three
youngest billionaires on the list are all Norwegian,” Kerry Dolan, the
assistant managing editor at Forbes told the Telegraph.
Their father, Johan H. Andersen, gave away 80% of his stakes to his two
daughters, launching them onto Forbes’s billionaire list.
Analysts suspect that the inheritance was passed down so early for tax
purposes, and to position the children to join the family business.
“In particular, the family is increasingly considered a team of equal
partners where seniority and gender do not count anymore,” Oyvind
Bohren, a professor of finance at the Norwegian Business School in Oslo
said. “The parents more often consider their children their peers, and
they find it more natural that their children participate more seriously
at the top.”
Despite being the richest teen in the world, Alexandra lives a low-key
lifestyle as a dressage competitor who promotes veganism on her
Instagram page.
She said she still saves up all her money and her father insists she buys cars secondhand.
When the world first learned about her wealth, she received 500 new friend requests on Facebook, Alexandra said in 2014.
Alexandra’s family grew their fortunes in the tobacco industry, becoming the leading cigarette maker in Norway for over a century, according to Forbes.
They sold the tobacco company for $500 million in 2005.
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