Andrónico Luksic Abaroa


Antonio Andrónico Luksic Abaroa was a Chilean businessman from a family of Croatian origin. He founded the Luksic Group, becoming the richest person in Chile, the fourth in Latin America, and the 132nd in the world, with a net worth in 2005 of according to Forbes magazine. The Luksic Group has interests in the mining, financial, industrial, and beverages sectors. Major holdings include, or have included, Banco de Chile, Compañia de Cervecerias Unidas, and Antofagasta Plc, a UK-listed copper mining company. In Croatia, he was involved in the tourist industry.
On September 2002, the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio published an interview with Andrónico Luksic titled "Don Andrónico cuenta su historia", in which he explains how, after a life of hard work, he had decided to retire and "dedicate himself to what he liked the most: his family, his beloved Croatia and social assistance".

Family

Luksic was born in Antofagasta, to a Bolivian mother, Elena Abaroa Córdova, and a Croatian immigrant father, Policarpo, who had arrived in Chile from the Adriatic island of Brač in 1910 and had made a living in the nitrate industry.
Luksic married Ena Craig and they had two sons: Andrónico and Guillermo. Luksic was widowed when Ena died in 1959. He married Iris Fontbona in 1961, when she was 18 years old. They had two daughters: Paola and Gabriela, and one son: Jean-Paul Luksic Fontbona

Death

Antonio Andrónico Luksic Abaroa died of cancer on 18 August 2005, aged 78. As of 2011, his widow Iris Fontbona and their family had a net worth of. As of October 2012 the Bloomberg Billionaires Index lists Iris Fontbona, who lives in Santiago as the 33rd richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $19.7 billion. The Forbes 2016 lists Iris Fontbona Chile's richest person with a $13.8 billion mining assets fortune, making her the fourth-richest in the region. Her net worth is equivalent to 6% of Chile's GDP.