IG is an award-winning, multi-platform trading company, the world’s No.1 provider of spread betting and CFD trading,¹ and a global leader in forex. It provides leveraged trading products with negative balance protection,² and an execution-only share dealing service. A range of affordable, fully managed investment portfolios completes IG’s comprehensive offering.

The company is a member of the FTSE 250, and has offices across Europe, North America, Africa, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. It also offers on-exchange limited risk derivatives via the Nadex brand in the US.

Methodology:

This campaign analyses the net worth of the richest individual or family with citizenship in each of the OECD-member countries, plus Singapore. Each individual or family’s net worth has been compared to the country’s population, average annual salary, gross domestic product (GDP) and average house price, as well as the price of contracts for crude oil, corn, oats, coffee, feeder cattle, London cocoa and gold.

Sources:

The richest individuals or families and their net worth valuations were sourced from the Forbes billionaires list 2018 and are correct as of 1 January 2019. Data on GDP, population, average salaries and house prices was extracted from the OECD on 8 December 2018, and represent 2017 for each country. Additional sources were used for Singapore’s GDP, population, average salary and average house price, Greece’s population and Turkey’s average salary. Singapore’s average house price and average salary were converted from Singapore dollars to US dollars on 5 December 2018 using the Google Finance Converter. All other currency conversions were completed on the 14 January 2019 using the Google Finance Converter. Commodity prices are correct as of 16 January 2019. Flag icons made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com are licensed by CC 3.0 BY.

¹ Based on revenue excluding FX (published financial statements, February 2018); for forex based on number of primary relationships with FX traders (Investment Trends UK Leveraged Trading Report released August 2018).
² Does not apply to professional traders.