章節 1171: Chapter 1171: A power comparable to the Cleveland Consortium
Xia Yu's assets, although hidden through a combination of cross-shareholding and offshore registration, are very rarely directly listed as his.
However, he has absolute control and leadership over these assets.
These assets can be divided into five main categories.
They are the Jiuding Group in Xiangjiang, the Guangming Group in Europe, the Polaris Group in North America, the flexible and nimble Galaxy Fund hidden behind the scenes, and some other scattered assets of Xia Yu.
Of these five major assets, the most numerous is the Jiuding Group in Xiangjiang, followed by the Galaxy Fund, the Guangming Group in Europe, the Polaris Group in North America, and other assets.
The Xiangjiang Jiuding system refers to the Xiangjiang Jiuding consortium. Although headquartered in Xiangjiang, the consortium's influence is not limited to Xiangjiang or even Asia.
The Jiuding consortium has thousands of companies at the first, second and third levels, and if you were to list them all on A4 paper, it would be a thick stack.
However, the main assets of the Jiuding consortium are actually concentrated in the eight major groups.
From highest to lowest value, they are Jiuding Financial Group, Jiuding Culture Media Group, Jiuding Real Estate Group, Tiangong Group, Jiuding Industrial Group, Jiuding Retail Group, Jiuding Energy Group and Jiuding Pharmaceutical Group.
Although the vast majority of these companies are not listed, it does not prevent them from having a valuation.
The combined market value or valuation of the eight groups is a whopping 515 billion US dollars, equivalent to over 300 billion Hong Kong dollars!
Jiuding Financial Group, which owns Jiuding Securities and Jiuding Bank, among other companies, is valued at 19.45 billion US dollars, accounting for 37.7% of the entire consortium's value.
This is only the valuation of the companies, not the assets owned by these companies. After all, the financial industry is too special, otherwise Jiuding Bank alone would have total assets of over 19.45 billion US dollars.
Back to the topic.
The second largest, Jiuding Culture Media Group, is valued at a whopping 14.48 billion US dollars, accounting for 28.1% of the entire consortium's value.
These two groups combined account for almost two-thirds of the entire consortium's value.
This shows that culture and media, and finance, have always been the two strongest pillars of Xia Yu!
However, among the other six major groups, the Tiangong Group, which currently has the brightest future, is in an explosive period. As long as the many companies under its banner develop smoothly, it is estimated that in two or three years, it will be able to become the third pole in the Jiuding consortium, comparable to the Jiuding Culture Media Group and Jiuding Financial Group.
Xia Yu's second largest asset is undoubtedly the secretly hidden Milky Way Fund, which has very simple assets, namely a working capital of up to 44 billion US dollars.
Xia Yu's third largest asset is undoubtedly the Bright Foundation, or perhaps it is more appropriate to call it the Bright Consortium. After all, the Bright Foundation already possesses all the characteristics required of a consortium.
Of course, although the Bright Consortium currently has a great deal of influence in Europe, it still has quite a way to go before it can match the established European consortia, as its current development is very unbalanced.
According to statistics, the assets of the Bright Consortium are currently concentrated mainly in the banking and automotive sectors.
The banking sector is the largest, with the combined value of the three major banks HSBC Holdings, Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered Bank reaching a whopping 16.7 billion US dollars.
In addition, the banking sector also holds stakes in banks such as the Chinese Mercantile Bank, Bahrain Bank and Barclays Bank, which together are worth a total of 1.5 billion US dollars.
Next is the Rolls-Royce Motor Group, which has grown rapidly and is now among the world's top ten car companies. The Bright Foundation holds 80% of the equity, both overtly and covertly, and it is worth a whopping 11.2 billion US dollars.
After these two, the only other major stake is in the French LVMH Group, worth US$3.8 billion.
Then add in other scattered assets and self-owned funds, and the entire Bright Consortium's assets total US$41.33 billion.
The influence of the Bright Consortium is mostly in the UK, with a small part in France. As for the rest of Europe, its influence is still very weak, which means there is still a lot of room for development in the future.
The Polaris Group in North America is ranked fourth, and its current assets are far behind those of the Illuminati. After the assets are counted, they are only 23.79 billion US dollars.
Not only that, Polaris Capital is big but not specialised, and its control and influence over the industry is not strong enough.
Polaris Capital wholly owns or has absolute control over many companies. After all, when Xia Yu personally established Polaris Capital in the United States, he was constantly on the lookout for potential companies of the future.
However, most of these companies were small companies that had not yet fully emerged. Even if they had developed over the course of a year or two, they were still far from reaching the peak of their former lives.
Now, in addition to the investment fields on which Polaris Capital relies, it also relies on its wholly-owned holdings Wells Fargo and Abbott to support the company.
Most of the assets of Polaris Capital are investment holdings. The combined value of the equity stakes in companies such as IBM, General Electric, Coca-Cola and Intel alone is a whopping 6.7 billion US dollars.
But Xia Yu is in no hurry, because as long as he remains patient and waits until the companies that Polaris Capital is carefully nurturing grow up, its assets will expand like a balloon.
After all, Polaris Capital now owns more than ten of the world's top 500 companies!
What's more, there are still plenty of opportunities in the future. Once he has the time to set up North America again, the assets of Polaris Capital will definitely skyrocket.
Peter Lynch has already run Polaris Capital very well, so there is no need for him to worry about it for now.
As for his final asset, it is actually quite large, exceeding 19 billion US dollars!
The first two are Blue Star Mining and Pacific Oil, and the three in the second group are the American Tiger Fund, Bridgewater Fund and the mainland's Kyushu Industrial Group.
Then there are the shares of Eternity Jewellery, Kyushu Fruit Company, and Australia Entertainment Company, and so on.
As for the tens of thousands of antiques, Xia Yu has only calculated the current actual value, otherwise how could his other assets only be worth 19 billion U.S. dollars?
Finally, when these five major assets were added together, Xia Yu was shocked to discover that his assets had reached a staggering 180 billion US dollars!
In terms of assets, Xia Yu was already able to surpass the Cleveland Consortium, which was the last of the top ten American consortia.
However, Xia Yu was also very clear that there was a big gap in strength among the top ten American consortia.
In 1974, someone had counted the assets of the Rockefeller Consortium, which amounted to 330.5 billion US dollars, ranking first in the United States!
Today, the Rockefeller and Morgan consortia, the top two in the United States, have a combined wealth of no less than 500 billion US dollars!
The California consortium, the First Citicorp consortium, the Mellon consortium, and so on, are all more powerful than him.
And now the six consortia on the island nation are each more powerful than him.
As for old Europe, there are even more consortia that are more powerful than him.
What's more, Xia Yu is also very clear that although his assets may seem to be many, his actual influence is far less than that of a consortium with the same assets. The most obvious example is that he has many shortcomings in terms of the 'monopolistic' nature of a consortium.
If you exclude the Galaxy Fund, which has 44 billion US dollars of undisclosed assets, his assets would only be around 136 billion US dollars.
If you exclude other assets of 18.9 billion US dollars, the combined assets of the Jiuding Consortium, Guangming Consortium and Polaris Capital would only be 117 billion US dollars, which is not even in the top ten in the United States.
Moreover, these assets are divided into three parts, which is typical of being broad but not deep.
Unlike the top ten American consortia and the six island consortia, whose assets are mainly concentrated in the United States and island countries.
The only one that can truly exert the kind of influence of the top ten American consortia and the six island consortia is actually the Jiuding consortium, with assets of more than 50 billion US dollars.
But how can Xiangjiang compare to island countries and the United States?
The Jiuding consortium's monopoly over many industries in Xiangjiang is already higher than that of the consortia in the United States and island countries.
Xia Yu had a very clear idea of what this meant.
The Jiuding Consortium must expand beyond Xiangjiang on a larger scale!
He had his sights set on all of Southeast Asia. Many of the groups and companies under the Jiuding Consortium were now implementing this long-term strategy, constantly opening branches in Southeast Asian countries, harvesting talent, seizing markets, and carrying out mergers and acquisitions in other industries and fields.
Although Southeast Asia is home to many countries, the Chinese ethnic group is undoubtedly the largest group in Southeast Asia in this era, so the expansion of the Jiuding Consortium in various countries is not difficult, and Xia Yu does not need to worry about it.
At some point, Xia Yu got up and turned his head to look at the world map hanging on the wall behind him. After staring at Southeast Asia for a long time, his gaze moved to the 'seahorse' on the island nation.
'I started laying plans for the island country in secret a few years ago. Now it's 1983, so it's time to make a formal plan...'
'If my business empire lacks the island country, I can't compete with Rockefeller and Morgan...'
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