Julio Bozano Net Worth

Julio Bozano has an estimated net worth of $2.4 billion, according to Forbes Real-Time Billionaires, Julio Bozano profile (figures as of October 20, 2026). That is up from $1.8 billion in 2019.

Julio Bozano is a Brazilian banker and investor who made his fortune in finance and now controls Bozano Investimentos, a large and diversified private equity firm. He was born in 1936, and Forbes describes him as self-made.

In 1961 he formed the financial services firm Grupo Bozano with Mario Henrique Simonsen, and the pair went on to cofound Banco Bozano, Simonsen, an investment bank based in Rio de Janeiro. He lives in Greenwich, Connecticut, and keeps a home in Rio de Janeiro.

Outside of finance he is a well-known horse breeder. In 1969 he started the Haras Santa Maria de Araras breeding farm, with operations in Brazil and Argentina, and Forbes says he owns more than 300 mares on farms around the world. He also collects art, including paintings by Picasso and the Brazilian painter Beatriz Milhazes.

Bozano is one of Brazil's longest-serving financiers. His career stretches from 1961, when he set up his first firm, through the sale of his bank and into decades of private investing. He has largely kept a low profile, and much of his time outside business goes to his horses and his art collection.

How Julio Bozano made his money

Bozano's big payday came in 2000, when he sold Banco Bozano, Simonsen to Spain's Banco Santander Central Hispano for a reported $550 million. That sale gave him the capital for a second career as an investor.

Through Bozano Investimentos he has put money into a coffee plantation, shopping centers and a stake in a jet engine maker. He also backed Azul, the low-cost Brazilian airline founded by JetBlue founder David Neeleman, which went public in April 2017. In 2014 his firm set up a private equity fund focused on education.

Those investments are spread across very different industries, from agriculture and real estate to aviation and education. That mix has helped keep his fortune unusually steady compared with founders whose wealth depends on a single stock.

How Forbes has valued Julio Bozano

Forbes valued Bozano at $1.8 billion in both 2019 and 2020. His figure rose to $2.1 billion in 2021, then dipped to $2 billion in 2022 and $1.9 billion in 2023.

It climbed to $2.2 billion in 2024, slipped to $2.1 billion in 2025 and reached $2.4 billion on the 2026 World's Billionaires List, his highest figure in that span. As of October 20, 2026, the Forbes real-time billionaires tracker also showed $2.4 billion. Few fortunes on the list have moved as little over the years.