Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Wednesday, March 18th.

Today on Forbes, the $100 billion club, these 20 people have 12-figure fortunes.

Another year, another record for the very richest of the world's wealthiest people.

As of March 1st, there are now 20 people on the planet

with a net worth of $100 billion or more,

according to Forbes's 2026 World's Billionaires list,

which we released just last week.

That's up from 15 last year,

and none less than a decade ago.

These 20 centa billionaires have a collective net worth of $3.5 million last year, and none less than a decade ago.

These 20 centa billionaires have a collective net worth of $3.8 trillion,

about $1.4 trillion more than last year.

Despite making up just 0.6% of the world's 3,428 billionaires, this group now accounts for a staggering 19% of all billionaire

wealth. At the top of them all is Elon Musk, who has continued to smash records over the

past year. He became the first person to be worth more than $500 billion in October, then crossed the

$600 billion and $700 billion marks in December.

In February, his wealth soared past $800 billion, after he merged his rocket maker

SpaceX with his artificial intelligence and social media company XAI in a deal valuing the combined company at $1.25 trillion.

A successful IPO of the firm later this year

could make Musk the world's first trillionaire.

Such a milestone was unthinkable until recently.

The first edition of the world's billionaires list, published in 1987,

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