how forbes or other economic magazines can assess someones wealth or net worth?

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I can‘t really wrap my head around this. For basically every celebrity you can get a net worth online. How accurate are these? What is factored in? How can they know, e.g. if the money earned wasn‘t lost gambling?

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Most high net worth individuals don’t have their money in cash bank accounts and raw cash. This is indeed private information and it’s in the banks’ best interest to keep this private.

The net worth estimation is mostly done from their publicly known assets. For example, Elon Musk’s net worth would mostly be the valuation of the shares of companies he own. Tesla, SpaceX, etc. This is (usually) followed by real estate ownership, as that is probably the second most valuable assets these people will have. Of course, all of these will be offset by the amount they/their companies owe in debt.

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