The 300 wealthiest families and individuals in the country have a net worth of 595 billion francs ($581 million), six billion francs more than in 2014, according to a report by Swiss business magazine Bilanz. The chief economist of the Swiss Trade Union Confederation calculated that the top 300 collectively earned almost as much (95 percent) as all the average wage earners in Switzerland put to together.
English: http://www.thelocal.ch/20151127/wealth-of-300-richest-swiss-rise
German: http://www.20min.ch/finance/news/story …
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