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Last updated: November 11, 2026 · $11.70T tracked

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No. 385Sweden

Carl Bennet

Investments · Gothenberg

Net worth

$9.4B

Today

+$84M+0.90%

Past month

−$298M−3.06%

As of Nov 11, 2026, 1:50 PM EST

Swedish industrialist Carl Bennet controls five companies on the Stockholm stock exchange. His holdings include business group Lifco, medical supplies company Arjo and logistics company Elanders. He also controls medical products company Getinge, which Bennet and fellow investor Rune Andersson acquired from Electrolux in 1989. They ran the company together for nearly a decade before parting ways.

Net worth over time

−3.06%−$298M over the past month
$10B$10B$9B
Oct 12Nov 11

Principal holdings

6 positions
CompanyShareValue

Lifco AB

OMX NORDIC STOCKHOLM: LIFCO.B-SE

70.2%$6.6B

Getinge

OMX NORDIC STOCKHOLM: GETI.B-SE

16.0%$1.5B

Private and other holdings

5.5%$521M

Sandvik

OMX NORDIC STOCKHOLM: SAND-SE

4.3%$409M

Arjo AB

OMX NORDIC STOCKHOLM: ARJO.B-SE

2.9%$273M

Elanders AB

OMX NORDIC STOCKHOLM: ELAN.B-SE

1.0%$97M

Also known for

  • Bennet has criticized Sweden's central-left government for not doing enough to battle youth unemployment in Sweden, and proposes a German-style apprentice system.
  • In 2014 Bennet reintroduced Lifco to the public market at 28 times the price he paid for the company to take it private 14 years earlier.