Financial services
May 17, 2018
The population of female billionaires grew 18 percent last year. Image courtesy of Neiman Marcus
By Sarah Jones
In 2017 the number of billionaires and their wealth grew at a faster rate than the overall ultra-high-net-worth population.
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