The world's 400 richest people lost US$124 billion amid yesterday's global share market tumble, according to Bloomberg's Billionares Index.
Monday's decline in the 400's on-paper wealth follows last week's collective fall of US$182 billion, Bloomberg reported.
Bloomberg has reported that the wealth of 24 of these individuals - including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Microsoft's Bill Gates - fell by more than US$1 billion each on Monday.