World Economic Forum
Davos Forum Is Back With Less Billionaire Starpower and No Snow
- Dimon and Solomon won’t be going, but Fraser and Moynihan will
- Bill Gates, Gautam Adani are the richest people set to attend
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Ask some of the world’s rich and powerful descending on Davos this week and they’ll tell you: After a two-year pandemic-enforced hiatus from the Swiss ski resort, the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum just isn’t going to be the same.
The guest list is hundreds of names shorter, with many titans of finance conspicuously absent. The chiefs of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. aren’t going. Neither is BlackRock Inc.’s Larry Fink or Steve Schwarzman, the private-equity billionaire.