{"id":4298,"date":"2016-04-04T17:56:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T17:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4298"},"modified":"2016-04-04T17:56:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T17:56:10","slug":"meet-the-youngest-billionaire-in-the-world-shes-only-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=4298","title":{"rendered":"Meet the youngest billionaire in the world; she&#8217;s only 19."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meet <strong>Alexandra Andresen<\/strong>, the youngest billionaire in the world, valued at $1.2 billion. Sh<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4299\" title=\"Alexandra Andersen photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Alexandra-Andersen-photo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Alexandra Andersen photo\" width=\"153\" height=\"150\" \/>e just graduated from high school.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It was the first time that her name and picture appeared on Forbes Magazine as one of the world&#8217;s billionaires.<\/p>\n<p>At the young age of 19, she\u2019s tied on the list with her 20-year-old sister, Katharina Andresen. The billionaire sisters each own 42% of their family\u2019s investment company Ferd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir fortune is all inherited, but it is remarkable that the three youngest billionaires on the list are all Norwegian,\u201d Kerry Dolan, the assistant managing editor at Forbes told the Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>Their father, Johan H. Andersen, gave away 80% of his stakes to his two daughters, launching them onto Forbes\u2019 billionaire list.<\/p>\n<p>It is suspected that the inheritance was passed down so early for tax purposes, and to position the children to join the family business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn particular, the family is increasingly considered a team of equal partners where seniority and gender do not count anymore,\u201d Oyvind Bohren, a professor of finance at the Norwegian Business School in Oslo said. \u201cThe parents more often consider their children their peers, and they find it more natural that their children participate more seriously at the top.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite being the richest teen in the world, Alexandra lives a low-key lifestyle as a dressage competitor who promotes veganism on her Instagram page.<\/p>\n<p>She said she still saves up all her money and her father insists she buys cars second hand.<\/p>\n<p>When the world first learned about her wealth, she received 500 new friend requests on Facebook, Alexandra said in 2014. <strong>(New York Daily News)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Alexandra Andresen, the youngest billionaire in the world, valued at $1.2 billion. She just graduated from high school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}