Aloysio de Andrade Faria
Aloysio de Andrade Faria is a Brazilian billionaire banker. As of November 2018, he was noted as being one of the world’s oldest billionaires.
Aloysio de Andrade Faria invests in financial firms, palm oil production, hotels, bottled water and more.
Trained as a doctor, Faria practiced medicine for two years; then his father died and he took the helm of the family’s Banco Real.
Under Faria, Banco Real became one of the largest banks in Brazil. In 1998 he sold the institution to Dutch bank ABN Amro for $2.1 billion.
He used that cash to fund a diverse empire, expanding into more than a dozen ventures in different industries.
