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SPECIAL ISSUE: MEET THE RICHEST PEOPLE ON THE PLANET

2016 EDITION

TURBULENT YEAR
FOR THE ULTRARICH
FEWER
BILLIONAIRES:

1,810
FEWER
NEWCOMERS:

30TH

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For our 30th annual guide to the worlds richest people we found a total of 1,810 billionaires, down
from 1,826 a year ago. Their aggregate net worth: $6.5 trillion, $570 billion less than last year.
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19 | FACT & COMMENT // STEVE FORBES


The war against cash.

LEADERBOARD
26 | THE 20 RICHEST PEOPLE ON THE PLANET
Many names are the same, but the pecking order has (mostly) changed.
Blame volatile stock markets and a stronger dollar for the reshuffling.

28 | NOTABLE NEWCOMER: CAMERON MACKINTOSH


Shining a spotlight on the new-billionaire producer
behind some of musical theaters biggest hits.

30 | DROP-OFFS
This year 221 billionaires fell off our list, the most since 2009.
Which of them tumbled furthestand why?

32 | THE RICHEST UNDER 40


Young, rich and self-made.

34 | REAL ESTATE: TRUMPING THE WHITE HOUSE


Whatever happens to The Donald come Election Day, hell still have
some prime Pennsylvania Avenue property.

36 | FORBES @ 100: BILLIONAIRES FIRST BOW


A look back at our rst-ever roundup of the worlds
ten-gure fraternity in 1987. What a difference three decades make.

38 | IN MEMORIAM
Farewell to a legendary activist, the worlds most
successful sandwich artist and more.

THOUGHT LEADERS
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12 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

24 | INNOVATION RULES // RICH KARLGAARD


Future billionaires.

FOR MANY
AN ACTIVE LIFE
STOPS FAR
TOO EARLY

By 2050 the worlds population over


60 will have doubled to two billion,
making age-related illness an even
greater challenge for society.
Thats why were seeking to help
people stay healthier and more
active in later life, be it through
more targeted treatments for cancer

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to keep those with arthritis moving.
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not by any means.
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FEATURES
40 | THE PRESIDENT OF COFFEE NATION
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz doesnt want to run for
the White House. But, buoyed by his companys
surging performance, the billionaire wants to use his caffeinated
perch to change American discourse.
BY GEORGE ANDERS

54 | SHADOW BANKER
Secretive John Grayken debuts on the FORBES Billionaires list with
the second-biggest fortune in private equity, $6.3 billion. In an era
that demonizes predatory banking, hes a ruthless, selsh, unpatriotic
tax dodgerand virtually every pension fund manager in the world is
rushing to give this American-turned-Irishman money.
BY NATHAN VARDI

54
32

66 | AFRICAS SAM WALTON


From shirts to furniture to groceries, Christo Wiese sells
billions in low-cost goods to a continent
clamoring for them. America could be next.
BY ABRAM BROWN

76 | THE DONALD OF DUBAI


Hussain Sajwani has transformed the desert skyline with luxury
apartments and lavish mansions using outrageous marketing
strategies (free Lamborghini, anyone?). Hes weathered the
2008 crash and his business partner Donald Trumps
politicsso what will he do if oil prices continue to plummet?
BY KERRY A. DOLAN AND ZINA MOUKHEIBER

83 | THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES


Our annual guide to the richest people on earth.
EDITED BY LUISA KROLL AND KERRY A. DOLAN

160 | THOUGHTS
On losing it.

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1. YOU GOTTA BELIEVE: The power of digital analytics


continues to put pressure on print advertising. Magazine
ads still nd favor, in part because marketers are people,
too, and know in their gut that consumers enjoy the medium. Needed: an Internet of Things motion sensor on
printed pages to track reader engagement.
2. PEOPLE LIKE PEOPLE: Conferences remain popular
as a revenue stream that works in tandem with thematic
magazine issues. Marketers now want more than their
logos on souped-up stages365 days of branded content
running through print pages, digital screens and video.
3. SIGNS OF A CONTENT BUBBLE: Journalists and
content marketers (native ads) are going after the same
eyeballs. Compounding that, an explosion of complicated
text, video and graphic packages produced by and for
brands are out of synch with smartphone users who want
fast and simple. That reality will require a new round of
mobile-friendly, easy-to-consume native ads that will run
smack into similar efforts by editorial newsrooms.
4. VOLUME BEGETS DATA BEGETS VOLUME:
Publishers need scalable content models to prot from
Googles ad engine and Facebooks traffic machine. These
behemoths provide reams of data that publishers can use
to slice, dice and chop their original content into a new
batch of consumable mobile chunks. The duopoly will
heavily impact the success/failure of emerging nontraditional journalistic formats.
5. AD BLOCKERS TAKE CENTER STAGE: Marketers
are xated on ad viewabilitythey wont pay up if their
ads arent in view for one continuous second. Ad-blocking
software means zero seconds from the get-go, so publishers hope a round of antiblocking initiatives and partial pay
walls (no ads for a weekly or monthly fee) will gain consumer favor and recapture revenue. What to watch for: Will
a Fargo Season Two GerhardtKansas City feud erupt?
6. GOLIATHS BATTLE OVER SPEED: Facebooks
Instant Articles, Googles Accelerated Mobile Pages and
Apple News all want publishers to do it their way so pages
load faster on mobile devices. Its unclear how their rules
will impact publisher monetization. Irony time: With the
Yahoos and AOLers near extinction (one in play, the other
a Verizon rounding error), their social and search conquerors are emerging as quasi-walled gardens themselves. F

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With all thy getting, get understanding

THE WAR AGAINST


CASH
BY STEVE FORBES, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

GAINING ATTENTION these days is


the idea of abolishing high denominations of the dollar and the euro. This concept graphically displays the astonishing
stupidityand intellectual bankruptcy
of todays liberal economic policymakers
and the economics profession.
Larry Summers, a former Treasury
Secretary and Harvard president, is
pushing the U.S. to ban $50 and $100
bills. Theres a lot of chatter, too, about
prohibiting the 500 note.
The ostensible reason is to help in the ght against
terrorists, bribers, drug dealers and tax evaders by
making it more inconvenient for these bad guys to
move around and store their ill-gotten cash.
The Benjamin is the most popular currency note in the
world, with more than 10 billion in circulation. The notion
that such evildoers as the Mexican drug cartels and ISIS
will be seriously disrupted by the absence of the BenjaminThese sacks of cash are too heavy now. Lets surrender!is so comical that one has to wonder if Summers et
al. are auditioning to write gags for Saturday Night Live.
Monetary expert Seth Lipsky pithily points out
in the New York Post, When criminals use guns, the
Democrats want to take guns from law-abiding citizens. When terrorists use hundreds, the liberals want
to deny the rest of us the Benjamins.
If the Obama Administration really wants to deny
resources to terrorists, why is it giving tens of billions
of dollars back to the globes terrorism central, Iran?
The real reason for this war on cashstart with
the big bills and then work your way downis an ugly
power grab by Big Government. People will have less
privacy: Electronic commerce makes it easier for Big
Brother to see what were doing, thereby making it
simpler to bar activities it doesnt like, such as purchasing salt, sugar, big bottles of soda and Big Macs.
The move to destroy cash feeds into the economic
commissars fantasy that they can better control the

economy. Policymakers in Washington, Tokyo and the EU think the reason that their economies are stagnant
is that ornery people arent spending
and investing the way they should.
How to make these benighted, recalcitrant beings do what theyre supposed
to do? The latest nostrum from our
overlords is negative interest rates. If
people have to pay fees to store their
money, as they do to put their stuff in
storage facilities, then, by golly, they
might be more inclined to spend it. To inhibit cash
hoardingwhen Japan announced it was imposing
negative interest rates, the sale of safes soaredthe
authorities will want to do away with large notes.
We kid you not. The highly credentialed author of
a paper advocating the prohibition of large currency
denominations declared, Introducing negative interest
rates would create a powerful incentive to hold deposits in cash, most likely in higher denominations. Eliminating high-denomination notes, so that saving in cash
was more inconvenient, would mitigate this problem.
Manipulating the value of money and controlling
interest rates, i.e., the price of money, never works.
Money measures value. It is a claim on services and is
a tool for facilitating commerce and investing.
The reason economies around the world are in the
ditchwhich is fueling anger, discontent and ugly politicsis structural, government-created barriers: unstable
money, suffocating rules and too-high rates of taxation.

Why They Stuck With Hitler


The Second World War was the most cataclysmic conict in human history, so its no surprise that books
about it keep pouring forth 70 years after it ended.
The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 19391945,
by Nicholas Stargardt (Basic Books, $35), brilliantly
and with impressive nuance and texture deals with

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FACT & COMMENT

STEVE FORBES

the astounding questions of how the


most educated and cultured nation on
earth could unloose such a murderous, barbarous and genocidal war
and why most GermansNazis and
non-Nazis alikeclosed ranks around
Hitler, even when it became clear the
war was going to end disastrously.
Having combed
through countless letters
and diaries, Stargardt
smoothly and vividly
weaves together the stories of more than a score
of individual Germans
from all walks of life and
the unfolding events of
the war. Focus is largely
on the Eastern Front,
where most German casualties occurred. He shows
how peoples attitudes
and opinions evolved, one
example being a young
man who was sensitive and artistic yet
cold and indifferent to the atrocities
he witnessed in Russia. Such shocking contradictions were common. A
prominent Protestant, Bishop Wurm of
Wrttemberg, faintheartedly protested
the Nazi regimes policy of murdering
deformed infants and the mentally ill
by administering poisonous drugs or
starving them to death, while Catholic Bishop Galen of Mnster initially
courageously and publicly condemned
the practice. The death toll from this
alone was well over 200,000. Yet Galen
vigorously supported the invasion of
the Jewish Bolshevik Soviet Union and
refused any aid to Jews, even to those
who had years before converted to
Christianity, while Wurm privately
wrote letters to the Reich in support of
those converts. As this book makes clear,
both the Protestant and the Catholic
churches were guilty of moral failure.
A number of German soldiers and
officials were uneasy or outright horried by what was happening, but most
did nothing about it. All but a handful of non-Nazis supported the war to
the end because they believed defeat
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FORBES

MARCH 21, 2016

would lead to Germanys annihilation.


Stargardt evokes the nitty-gritty of
daily life: complaints about hypocritical officials living high on the hog (a
common gibe: When will the war end?
When [the obese Hermann] Gring ts
into [the slim propaganda chief Joseph]
Goebbels trousers); rationing; indelities on the home front; the
movies, plays and radio
shows people preferred
(Shakespeare was performed more frequently
in Germany than in Britain during the war); the
Allied bombing; and the
course of the war itself.
Some highlights:
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were aware of the mass
killing of the Jews and
other atrocities through
letters and photos sent
to them by husbands,
sons, brothers and friends, and from
conversations when these men came
home on leave.
Goebbels was a master at making
the home front complicit in what was
happening, rst by noting Hitlers January 1939 prophecy that if the Jews
launched another European war they
would perish, and then letting events
speak for themselvesthe deportation
of German Jews and the auctioning
off of their property, along with what
people learned from news sent by their
relatives ghting on the Eastern Front.
)-.,'(-)(0#(."'-&0-
that the war was one of self-defense,
a ght for survival, because the evil
French, Russians, British and Americans and their Jewish masters all
wanted to destroy Germany.
,'(-&-)(!!#('),&+/#0alence: The bombing of German cities
by the U.S. and Britain was in retaliation
for the Reichs treatment of Jews, but
what was happening in the death camps
and shooting pits was really no different from the Allies terror bombings.
(,-)(.",'(- )/!".
to the bitter end with a fanaticism

exceeding that of the Japanese was


the shame of November 1918, when
Germany suddenly collapsed, even
though the Fatherland hadnt been
invaded and most people believed the
army was still in good ghting order.
)(.,,3.)4#'3.".",'(-
were hardly a united community.
Differences between regions, classes
and religions were sharp and became
exacerbated when millions of refugees from bombed-out cities were
moved to other parts of the country.
/&#)*#(#)()(."1,)-#&lated. At the beginning Germans
were deeply opposed. The seemingly
easy victory over France made people
euphoric; setbacks had the opposite
effect. But even though the regime
suffered bouts of immense unpopularity, particularly in the summer of
1943, most Germans never wavered in
their belief that they shouldnt give up.
,'('#&#.,3-/&.#-1,"),ric. In the rst few weeks of 1945,
for instance, German army deaths
exceeded the number the U.S. lost in
the entire war. Total German military
deaths were around 4.8 million.
($/-. ),,&,),
Hitlers armaments minister and longtime trusted condant Fritz Todt
told the Fhrer that this war can no
longer be won by military means,
because Germany couldnt match the
growing production of the U.S. (which
was providing more and more materiel
to Britain and Russia), not to mention
the increasing output of the Soviet
Union and Great Britain. Todt recommended that Hitler negotiate the
best deal he could and end the war.
Instead, Hitler maniacally went in
the opposite direction. The killing of
Jews was ramped up exponentially. At
the beginning of 1942 most of Europes
Jews were still alive; by years end
the majority were dead. When Japan
attacked Pearl Harbor, Hitler immediately declared war on the U.S.
This is an extremely interesting
yet disheartening tale of a civilized
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THE RULE OF 72 is a handy way to


peg the years it will take for an investment to double. Take 72 and divide it
by the compound interest rate. Earn
8% and youll double your money every
nine years. Close enough, anyway.
In 1944, 72 years ago, the U.S. gross
domestic product was $225 billion (in
current dollars). Today its approximately $18 trillion. That represents an
annual compound growth rate of 2.9%.
If the U.S. economy had grown just one
percentage point more per year, the rule of 72 says the size would be
double what it is today. (Actually, a bit more, when you run the numbers: $37.1 trillion.)
Question: How many more billionaires would the U.S. have in an
economy twice as big? How much more investment capital? How
much more opportunity for entrepreneurs? With a $37 trillion economy, spread over 320 million people, thered be no government debt or
looming Social Security crisis, state and city pensions would be fully
funded, and the countrys infrastructure would be spectacular.
All this wouldve been possible had the political class paid just a
wee bit more attention to economic growth over those 72 years. A pox
on them for not doing so.

AGE OF THE COMMON BILLIONAIRE


But I digress. Lets move to the world economy. Today its size is approximately $80 trillion. Last year was a so-so year for growth, but
still the GWP (gross world product) grew at 3.4%. That rate of growth
predicts a $258 trillion global economy by 2050. Think about that:
an economy more than three times as large as todays. Lets assume
a lower rate of growth, say 3%. Thats still $145 trillion in additional
annual production, which will create many thousands of new billionaires. The FORBES Billionaires issue in 2050 will be as thick as a big
citys phone book.
Where should tomorrows billionaires seek their fortunes? Because trends are your friends, keep an eye on two megatrends.
Global population. Its getting bigger, richer, more urban and
older. Global population today is 7.3 billion. The UN predicts 9.7 billion by 2050. But pay special attention to the subtrends within the
megatrends. Take the growth of the global middle class. Today that
population is around 2 billion. By 2050 this number could, more or
less, double. When people move from poverty to the middle class,
they want and, therefore, buy things. What do they want? Sanitation.
Air-conditioning. Modern housing. Higher-protein diets. The ability
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to travel. Trillions of dollars will be made


serving these needs.
Urban population will grow from 4 billion
to 6.3 billion by 2050. Trillions of dollars will
be made in the housing and transportation
industries.
The worlds older population (people over
65) will grow from todays 600 million to
1.5 billion or so by 2050. Trillions of dollars
will be made in a range of new drugs, medical procedures and health services aimed at
meeting the needs of seniors.
Technology acceleration. In tech circles theres a robust debate about whether
Moores Law, which estimates the rate of
microchip evolution, is slowing. In a narrow
sense it is. The distance between circuits on
a chip is already down to the width of several
atoms. Cram the circuits much closer and
electrons will start jumping the circuits and
behave unpredictably. But will technologys
exponential progress then stop?
The futurist Ray Kurzweil thinks not.
He points out that the Moores Law rate of
progress (where digital technologys capabilities double every 18 to 24 months) predates
the silicon era, which began in 1958 with
Fairchild Semiconductors integrated circuit.
Kurzweil claims the exponential era began
in the 1890s. He says it will continue after
silicon semiconductors have run their course
(by the early 2020s), thanks to quantum computing and other already proven concepts.
Kurzweil could be wrong, but thats not
a wager Id make. Its never been smart to
bet against the rate of technological change.
Thats like betting against human ingenuity.
Tomorrows billionaires will be those who
use ingenuity and rapidly evolving technology to transform traditional industries
agriculture, energy, manufacturing, transportation, construction, nance, health careto
serve Earths growing population.
Think bigger, richer, more urban and
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THE TOP 20

Meet
The
Worlds
Richest
THE RANKS OF the
planets 20 wealthiest shuffled over the
last year, with only
Bill Gates (No. 1)
and Warren Buffett
(No. 3) holding their
spots. Spains Amancio Ortega of fashion
retailer Zara moved
from fourth to second,
swapping places with
Carlos Slim Helu; the
Mexican magnate lost
$27.1 billion last year,
more than anyone else.
Amazons Jeff Bezos
and Facebooks Mark
Zuckerberg, each a
big gainer, joined the
top 10 for the rst
time, while Buffetts
Brazilian partner,
Jorge Paulo Lemann,
and Chinese investor
Wang Jianlinwho
owns AMC Entertainment Holdings and is
buying moviemaker
Legendary Entertainmentmade their top
20 debuts. Altogether,
this group is worth
$827 billion, or $73
billion (8%) less than
last years group.

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YOSHIAKI
TSUTSUMI

1987

$20

1988

$18.9
$15

1989

YOSHIAKI
TSUTSUMI

IN THE 30 YEARS weve been compiling our denitive list of the


worlds richest, only ve men (yes, theyve all been men) have claimed
the top spot. Seventeen times that man was named Bill Gates. Though
even he isnt as rich as he was at the peak of the dot-com bubble, when
his ination-adjusted net worth hit a staggering $128 billion. In the
four years prior to that, his nominal net worth soared from $13 billion
to $90 billionmore than it is even now, nearly two decades later.

$28.7

$16

1990

TAIKICHIRO
MORI

The Man Who Owns the World

$41.7
$37.9

$29
$15

1991

$26.1

$13

1992
1993

$9

1994

$8.5

$14.8
$13.6
$12.9

1995

$22

1996

$20.1
$18
$27.2
$36.4

1997

$53.7
$51

1998

$74.1
$90

1999

$128
$60

2000

BILL GATES

$78.5
$52.8
$40.7

2003

Q REAL (2016) DOLLARS


$58.5

$46.5

2005

$56.4
$50

2006

$58.8
$56

2007
2008

$64
$62

$68.2

$40

2009

$44.2
$53.5

2010

CARLOS
SLIM
HEL

Q NOMINAL DOLLARS

$70

$52.4
$46.6

2004

BILL GATES

$58.1
$74

2011
2012

$77.9
$69

$71.2

2013

$73

$74.2

2014

BILL GATES

NET WORTH ($BILLIONS)

$58.7

2001
2002

WARREN BUFFETT

$82.6

$76

$76.1

2015

$79.2

$79.2

2016

$75

$42.9
$40.6

$39.6 $40.1

$39.4

$39.1

$37.2
$36.1

$35.2

$34.4

$34

$33.6
$32.3

$29.7

$33.3
$31.9

$29.2

$28.7

$24.2

$27.8

$27.1

$25

9. (T)

11.

12.

LILIANE
LARRY PAGE
BETTENCOURT
(19)
(10)
Google
LOral
U.S.
FRANCE
+$5.5 BIL
$4 BIL

13.

SERGEY
BRIN
(20)
Google
U.S.
+5.2 BIL

14.

BERNARD
ARNAULT
(13)
LVMH
FRANCE
$3.2 BIL

15.

JIM WALTON
(9)
Wal-Mart
U.S.
$7 BIL

19.

17.

16.

ALICE
WALTON
(11)
Wal-Mart
U.S.
$7.1 BIL

S. ROBSON
WALTON
(12)
Wal-Mart
U.S.
$7.2 BIL

18.

WANG
JIANLIN
(29)
Real estate
CHINA
+$4.5 BIL

JORGE
PAULO
LEMANN
(26)
Food &
beverages
BRAZIL
+$2.8 BIL

20.

LI KA-SHING
(17)
Diversied
HONG KONG
$6.2 BIL

BY CHASE PETERSON-WITHORN

DAVID
KOCH
(6)
Diversied
U.S.
$3.3 BIL

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Curtain Call
Occupying center stage among 2016s
198 newly minted billionaires: Cameron
Mackintosh, the British producer behind
Phantom and Miss Saigon.
THE 1985 OPENING of Les Misrables in Londons
West End marked the end of one act and the beginning of
another in the life of Cameron Mackintosh. Only after,
he says, did people see you could make more money in
musicals than in movies.
He went on to produce a slew of musical theater
blockbusters, including The Phantom of the Opera and
Miss Saigon. He owns stakes in Phantom and Cats and
full rights to Les Mis and Miss Saigon, meaning he gets
paid whenever a professional company stages any of
them; he also owns eight West End theaters and 75%
of Music Theatre International, the largest licensor of
Broadway shows to amateur productions. It all adds up
to a $1.2 billion fortune.
You never know when money is going to come, when
its going to go, says Mackintosh, 69, who started his
career as a $30-a-week stagehand. Im more surprised
than anyone. Success looks almost certain to come from
his next big venture, however: importing Broadway
sensation Hamilton to the West End in 2017.

BY THE NUMBERS

How They Acquired It

4.9%

Dollar Days

28 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

396

JAPANESE
YEN

EURO
5.0%

CHINESE
RMB

INHERITED
& GROWING

5.8%

GBP

8.9%

1,186

INDIAN
RUPEE

SELF-MADE
BILLIONAIRES

228 INHERITED

20.2%
21.3%

RUSSIAN
RUBLE

MEXICAN
PESO

29.2%

BRAZILIAN
REAL

Shes All That

190

female billionaires worldwide


10% of the total, down from 197 in 2015.

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TOLGA AKMEN/MCT/NEWSCOM

1.21%

A SURGING greenback
has wiped billions off
the fortunes of the
worlds richest, as
energy-dependent
countries like Russia,
Mexico and Brazil
experienced doubledigit drops in the last
year. A slowing Chinese
economy and sluggish
recoveries in Europe
made the Japanese yen
the only major currency
to appreciate against
the U.S. dollar.

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DROP-OFFS

JIM KOCH
2015 net worth: $1.3 bil
Current net worth: $840 mil

Gone (For Now)


THE COMMODITIES
rout, equity market mayhem
and global economic
uncertainty have dented
the wealth of many of the
worlds richest. This past
year 221 billionaires got
knocked off our list; not
since 2009when the credit
crisis exiled 355 from the
three-comma clubhave so
many fallen in one year.
China lost the most42
followed by the U.S., which
had 25 new ex-billionaires.
Brazil lost 23 billionaires,
while 19 Russians and
15 from India got the
bootgiving a whole new
meaning to the term BRIC
economy.

NUMBER OF DROP-OFFS
BY INDUSTRY

SOLOMON LEW
AUSTRALIA
LEN AINSWORTH
AUSTRALIA
KERRY STOKES
AUSTRALIA
ANA LUCIA DE
MATTOS BARRETTO
VILLELA
BRAZIL

The worlds rst ethanol


billionaire, a Brazilian, runs
publicly traded Cosan, a
conglomerate based in So
Paulo. The oil glut has been
bad for both alternative
fuels and fuel additives;
shares in Cosan are down
62% from a year ago.
2015 net worth: $1 bil
Current net worth: $930 mil

Previously Indias only self-made


female billionaire, she founded Biocon
Ltd., the countrys largest publicly
traded biopharma company. Its stock
has tumbled nearly a fth since
January, a market-turbulence casualty
despite good third-quarter earnings.

MICHAEL KLEIN
BRAZIL

CLAYTON RIDDELL
CANADA

JOSE ISAAC PERES


& FAMILY
BRAZIL

K. RAI SAHI
CANADA

LIA MARIA AGUIAR


BRAZIL

JAYME GARFINKEL
BRAZIL

BLAIRO MAGGI
BRAZIL

DULCE PUGLIESE DE
GODOY BUENO
BRAZIL

ANA MARIA
MARCONDES PENIDO
SANTANNA
BRAZIL
RUBENS OMETTO
SILVEIRA MELLO
BRAZIL
NEVALDO ROCHA
& FAMILY
BRAZIL

MANUFACTURING
25

LORETTA ROBINSON
& FAMILY
CANADA

ITAMAR LOCKS
& FAMILY
BRAZIL

SERGIO LINS
ANDRADE & FAMILY
BRAZIL

2015 net worth:


$1.7 bil each
Current net worth:
$870 mil each

KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW

ANTONIO LUIZ
SEABRA
BRAZIL

FRANK HASENFRATZ
CANADA
J. MICHAEL PEARSON
CANADA

Peru
3
Brazil
23

The German
brothers (Oliver
Samwer, below)
behind Rocket
Internet, infamous
for cloning the
ideas of prominent
tech rms
(Zappos, Blue
Apron and others),
have seen their
companys stock
drop by more
than half since its
October 2014 IPO.

DIVERSIFIED
24

Chile
1

FOOD & BEVERAGE


20

TECHNOLOGY
20

WANG WEI
CHINA

LIU DIANBO
CHINA

YU AWU & FAMILY


CHINA

ALEXANDER SAMWER
GERMANY

ALOKE LOHIA
INDIA

CHE FENGSHENG
CHINA

ZHOU MINGJIE
& FAMILY
CHINA

CHEUNG YAN
CHINA

MARC SAMWER
GERMANY

SHISHIR BAJAJ
INDIA

LV DALONG
CHINA

OLIVER SAMWER
GERMANY

G.V. PRASAD
INDIA

GUO WENGUI
CHINA

YOU XIAOPING
& FAMILY
CHINA

ANDREAS POHL
GERMANY

SATISH REDDY
INDIA

LIANG ZHAOXIAN
CHINA

ONSI SAWIRIS
EGYPT

REINFRIED POHL JR.


GERMANY

V.G. SIDDHARTHA
INDIA

LIU MING HUI


CHINA

SAMIH SAWIRIS
EGYPT

ARISTOTELIS
MISTAKIDIS
GREECE

SANJAY SINGAL
INDIA

LOU ZHONGFU
& FAMILY
CHINA

PIERRE CASTEL
& FAMILY
FRANCE

MARIO LOPEZ
ESTRADA
GUATEMALA

OU ZONGHONG
CHINA

ELISABETH BADINTER
& FAMILY
FRANCE

CHEN JINSONG
& FAMILY
HONG KONG

MARIE-JEANNE
MEYER
FRANCE

GORDON WU
HONG KONG

ZHANG HONGWEI
CHINA
LIU XUEJING &
FAMILY
CHINA
YANG ZHIMAO
& FAMILY
CHINA

PATRICIA ANGELINI
ROSSI
CHILE

LI YIHAI
CHINA

LUCIA MAGGI
BRAZIL

WANG YONG
& FAMILY
CHINA

SUN SHANGCHUAN
& FAMILY
CHINA

MAURIZIO BILLI
BRAZIL

WANG HAIPENG
CHINA

SUN WEIJIE
CHINA

EDIR MACEDO
& FAMILY
BRAZIL

SUN DELIANG
& FAMILY
CHINA

ZHU YICAI
CHINA

MARLI PISSOLLO
BRAZIL

SHEN YA
CHINA

MARIA DE LOURDES
EGYDIO VILLELA
BRAZIL

QIU JIANPING
& FAMILY
CHINA

DAISY IGEL
BRAZIL

XIAO FEN & FAMILY


CHINA

LIU MING CHUNG


BRAZIL

CHEN TIANQIAO
CHINA

HUGO RIBEIRO
& FAMILY
BRAZIL

WEI QI & FAMILY


CHINA

30 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

St. Kitts and Nevis


1

MARC, OLIVER
& ALEXANDER
SAMWER

2015 net worth: $1.4 bil


Current net worth: $750 mil

FASHION
& RETAIL
29

NUMBER OF DROP-OFFS
BY COUNTRY

Mexico
1

Guatemala
1

RUBENS OMETTO
SILVEIRA MELLO

JOAO ALVES DE
QUEIROZ FILHO
BRAZIL

LINA MARIA AGUIAR


BRAZIL

And now, the hangover: As beers


booze-market share declines, the father
of the American craft-suds movement
his Boston Beer makes Samuel Adams
sees his wealth decline by 39%.

United States
25

HUANG WEN TSAI


CHINA
HONG XIAOBO
CHINA
WANG XICHENG
& FAMILY
CHINA
YANG YUANQING
CHINA
JIANG NING
CHINA
LI YONGJUN
CHINA

ZHU JIMAN
CHINA

TU JIANHUA
CHINA
WANG YONGPING
CHINA
CHU JINFU
CHINA
DAI DEMING
CHINA
WANG ZHONGJUN
CHINA
WANG QINGHUI
CHINA
XIA SHUDONG
CHINA

MONIQUE ROOSMALE
NEPVEU
FRANCE
JEAN-CHARLES
NAOURI
FRANCE
JEANINE DICK
FRANCE
JACQUES MERCERONVICAT & FAMILY
FRANCE

RAJAN RAHEJA
& FAMILY
INDIA
MALVINDER &
SHIVINDER SINGH
INDIA

AMIT BURMAN
INDIA
KIRAN MAZUMDARSHAW
INDIA
SUBHASH RUNWAL
INDIA
BHADRESH SHAH
INDIA
PURNOMO PRAWIRO
INDONESIA
HARJO SUTANTO
INDONESIA

VENUGOPAL DHOOT
INDIA

HARY
TANOESOEDIBJO
INDONESIA

ANU AGA
INDIA

EDWIN SOERYADJAYA
INDONESIA

VIKAS OBEROI
INDIA

BENNY SUBIANTO
INDONESIA

Who Stayed, Whos New, Whos Out

Russia
19

Sweden
1
Norway
1

S. Korea
5

NEW

2005

China
42
Taiwan
6
Hong Kong
2

DROP-OFFS

2007
2008

Malaysia
3
Singapore
Indonesia
2
5

Oman
1

TOTAL ON LIST

2006

Thailand
3

India
15

United
Kingdom
Lithuania
10
1
Germany Poland
5
2
Switzerland
Austria Romania
France 2
1
1
7
Italy
Spain
Turkey
1
2
6
Greece
Israel
Kuwait
1
Morocco
1
4
1
Egypt Saudi Arabia
4
2

THE MEMBERSHIP ROLLS of the worlds billionaire club are constantly


in ux, as a review of the last decade shows: Gate crashers enjoy their
newfound access, while those whove had some hard luck (by billionaire
standards, anyway) nd themselves on the outside looking in.

2009
2010

Australia
3

Uganda
1

2011

Tanzania
1

2012
2013

TORY BURCH
Luxury-fashion sales
are slowing due to slack
demand in China, Russia
and elsewhere. That has
dinged the fortune of
Burchfounder of the
eponymous preppy-chic
labelin tandem.

J. MICHAEL PEARSON
2015 net worth: $1 bil
Current net worth: $480 mil

Federal investigations, restated


earnings and bad p.r. over drug
price hikes have blasted the market
cap of pharmaceutical rm Valeant;
CEO Pearson, ailing as well, recently
returned from a lengthy medical leave.

FINANCE
18

HEALTH CARE
17

REAL ESTATE
17

2014
2015
2016
0

ENERGY
15

500

MEDIA
9

1,000

1,500

CONSTRUCTION
7

2,000

LOGISTICS
1
CASINOS
1
MINING AUTO
5
3

TELECOMM
6
SHLOMO ELIAHU
ISRAEL
BRUNELLO CUCINELLI
& FAMILY
ITALY
FAWZI AL-KHARAFI
KUWAIT
MOHANNAD
AL-KHARAFI
KUWAIT
BASSAM ALGHANIM
KUWAIT
KUTAYBA ALGHANIM
KUWAIT
NERIJUS NUMAVICIUS
LITHUANIA
DANNY TAN CHEE
SING
MALAYSIA
VINCENT TAN
MALAYSIA
GOH PENG OOI
MALAYSIA
RUFINO VIGIL
GONZALEZ
MEXICO
MILOUD CHAABI
& FAMILY
MOROCCO
TROND MOHN
NORWAY

MOHAMMED
AL BARWANI
OMAN
ROSA BRESCIA
CAFFERATA
PERU
VITO RODRIGUEZ
RODRIGUEZ
PERU
JORGE RODRIGUEZ
RODRIGUEZ
PERU
LESZEK CZARNECKI
POLAND
DARIUSZ MILEK
POLAND

YURI GUSHCHIN
RUSSIA
ROUSTAM TARIKO
RUSSIA
MIKHAIL BALAKIN
RUSSIA
DMITRY MAZEPIN
RUSSIA
NIKOLAI TSVETKOV
RUSSIA
VLADIMIR GRUZDEV
RUSSIA
AIRAT SHAIMIEV
RUSSIA

ABDUL MAJEED
ALHOKAIR
SAUDI ARABIA

BEDA DIETHELM
SWITZERLAND

FAWAZ ALHOKAIR
SAUDI ARABIA

JEAN CLAUDE
GANDUR
SWITZERLAND

SALMAN ALHOKAIR
SAUDI ARABIA

TONY CHEN
TAIWAN

RON SIM
SINGAPORE

TSAI MING-KAI
TAIWAN

CHUA THIAN POH


SINGAPORE

DOUGLAS HSU
& FAMILY
TAIWAN

STEPHEN SAAD
SOUTH AFRICA
KOO BON-NEUNG
SOUTH KOREA

IOAN NICULAE
ROMANIA

ALEXANDER
LUTSENKO & FAMILY
RUSSIA

LEONID SIMANOVSKY
RUSSIA

ZIYAD MANASIR
RUSSIA

CHUNG MONG-JOON
SOUTH KOREA

SERGEI KATSIEV
RUSSIA

RADIK SHAIMIEV
RUSSIA

CHUNG YONG-JIN
SOUTH KOREA

KONSTANTIN
GRIGORISHIN
RUSSIA

RUSTEM SULTEEV
RUSSIA

CHEY KI-WON
SOUTH KOREA

ALEXEI BOGACHEV
RUSSIA

ALBERT
SHIGABOUTDINOV
RUSSIA

DANIEL MATE
SPAIN

NIKOLAI MAXIMOV
& FAMILY
RUSSIA

ZELIMKHAN
MUTSOEV
RUSSIA

NIKOLAI BUINOV
RUSSIA

SULAIMAN AL RAJHI
& FAMILY
SAUDI ARABIA

CHO YANG-RAI
SOUTH KOREA

ALBERTO CORTINA
SPAIN
JACKY XU
ST. KITTS AND NEVIS
INGVAR KAMPRAD
& FAMILY
SWEDEN

RICHARD CHANG
TAIWAN
CHIN JONG HWA
TAIWAN
THOMAS WU
TAIWAN
ROSTAM AZIZI
TANZANIA
SURANG PREMPREE
THAILAND
SOMPHOTE AHUNAI
THAILAND
KIAT CHIARAVANONT
THAILAND
AYDIN DOGAN
TURKEY
AHSEN OZOKUR
TURKEY

MUBARIZ
GURBANOGLU
TURKEY
MEHMET EMIN
KARAMEHMET
TURKEY
SERRA SABANCI
TURKEY
SUZAN SABANCI
DINCER
TURKEY
SUDHIR RUPARELIA
UGANDA
MARY & DOUGLAS
PERKINS
UNITED KINGDOM
DAVID SAINSBURY
UNITED KINGDOM
BILL ADDERLEY
& FAMILY
UNITED KINGDOM
CHARLES CADOGAN
& FAMILY
UNITED KINGDOM
RICHARD ELMAN
UNITED KINGDOM
ALEX BEARD
UNITED KINGDOM
BENEDICTA
CHAMBERLAIN
UNITED KINGDOM
CHRIS DAWSON
UNITED KINGDOM

SERVICE
4

MICHAEL LYNCH
UNITED KINGDOM

DONALD HALL
UNITED STATES

DAVID MCMURTRY
UNITED KINGDOM

JIM KOCH
UNITED STATES

EDWARD STACK
UNITED STATES

ALAN AUERBACH
UNITED STATES

NICHOLAS
WOODMAN
UNITED STATES

RICHARD CHILTON JR.


UNITED STATES

ANNE COX
CHAMBERS
UNITED STATES
CHARLES BUTT
& FAMILY
UNITED STATES
HERBERT LOUIS
UNITED STATES
JOSEPHINE LOUIS
& FAMILY
UNITED STATES
GARY BURRELL
UNITED STATES
TOR PETERSON
UNITED STATES
ALFRED MANN1
UNITED STATES
JOYCE RALEY TEEL
UNITED STATES
ANEEL BHUSRI
UNITED STATES

ROBERT STILLER
UNITED STATES
CLIFFORD ILLIG
UNITED STATES
BARBARA CARLSON
GAGE
UNITED STATES
JON HUNTSMAN
UNITED STATES
MARILYN CARLSON
NELSON
UNITED STATES
TORY BURCH
UNITED STATES
RAY IRANI
UNITED STATES
RYAN KAVANAUGH
UNITED STATES
JONATHAN ORINGER
UNITED STATES
STEVEN ROTH
UNITED STATES

DIED FEB. 25.

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BY CHLOE SORVINO

2015 net worth: $1 bil


Current net worth: $800 mil

South Africa
1

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NAME | Age
Net worth Company
Unicorn:
EVAN SPIEGEL | 25
$2.1 bil Snapchat

Young
Guns

BOBBY MURPHY | 27
$1.8 bil Snapchat
DUSTIN MOSKOVITZ | 31
$8.9 bil
Facebook

A RECORD 36 of the
worlds billionaires
are self-made and
under age 40. Their
combined net worth:
$125.5 billion. Half
come from tech
unicornsprivately
held rms valued at
$1 billion or more.

MARK ZUCKERBERG | 31
$44.6 bil
Facebook
NATHAN
BLECHARCZYK |32
$3.3 bil Airbnb

($1.5 BILLION)

EVAN SPIEGEL ($2.1 BILLION)


The 25-year-old Snapchat cofounder is the
youngest self-made billionaire. His messaging
appwhose quick-to-vanish posts drew a joking
endorsement from Hillary Clintonwas funded at
a $16 billion valuation last May. (Cofounder Bobby
Murphy, 27, is worth $1.8 billion.)
32 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

SEAN PARKER | 36
$2.4 bil
Facebook

CAI XIAORU | 36
$1.2 bil
Electronic components

DREW HOUSTON | 32
$1 bil
Dropbox

ZHANG BANGXIN | 36
$1.3 bil
After School Tutoring

EDUARDO SAVERIN | 33
$6.2 bil
Facebook
KIRILL SHAMALOV | 33
$1.2 bil Petrochemicals
EVAN SHARP | 33
$1 bil
Pinterest
BEN SILBERMANN | 33
$1.6 bil Pinterest
CHENG WEI | 33
$1 bil
Ride-hailing service
SACHIN BANSAL | 34
$1.2 bil Flipkart

JACK DORSEY ($1 BILLION)


Facing the public markets
can be toughdoubly so
when youre running two
companies. And both of
Dorseys companiesTwitter
and digital-payment company
Squarehave lately watched
their shares sink. Twitters
user growth has stalled, while
Square cant seem to convince
the market that it deserves
the same valuation private
investors once gave it.

ADAM NEUMANN | 36
$1.5 bil WeWork

ELIZABETH HOLMES | 32
$3.6 bil Theranos

BRIAN CHESKY | 34
$3.3 bil Airbnb

FRANK WANG ($3.6 BILLION)


Wang, 35, is the worlds rst drone billionaire
after founding SZ Dajiang Innovation Technology,
known as DJI, in his Hong Kong college dorm; its
worth $8 billion now and controls an estimated
70% of the burgeoning market.

ORION HINDAWI | 36
$1 bil
Software

MARKUS PERSSON | 36
$1.3 bil
Minecraft

BINNY BANSAL | 33
$1.2 bil Flipkart

Where did Neumanns


interest in communal
office space take root?
Perhaps in the Israeli
kibbutz on which he
was raised. WeWork,
which Neumann, 36,
founded in 2010 in
New York with Miguel
McKelvey, now has
40,000 members in
16 cities using its coworking spaces; the
company is valued at
$10 billion.

SCOTT FARQUHAR | 36
$1.4 bil Business
software

RYAN GRAVES | 32
$1.5 bil Uber

WANG YUE | 32
$1.1 bil
Online games

ADAM NEUMANN

MIKE CANNONBROOKES | 36
$1.4 bil Business
software

JOE GEBBIA | 34
$3.3 bil Airbnb

GARRETT CAMP | 37
$6.2 bil Uber
ROBERT PERA | 37
$2 bil
Wireless networking
gear
NARUATSU BABA | 38
$1.2 bil
Smartphone games
JACK DORSEY | 39
$1 bil
Twitter
TRAVIS KALANICK | 39
$6.2 bil Uber
YOSHIKAZU TANAKA | 39
$1 bil
Online social network
LI WEIWEI | 39
$1.3 bil
Online games
WU GANG | 39
$1.3 bil
Money management
ZHOU YAHUI | 39
$2.3 bil
Online games

FRANK WANG | 35
$3.6 bil DJI

ORION HINDAWI ($1 BILLION)


Tanium, the cybersecurity rm Hindawi
founded with his fellow billionaire father in
2007, provides real-time threat detection
for companies like Amazon and Visa.
Orion, 36, is now CEO as Tanium mulls
an IPO.

BY KATE VINTON
JAMEL TOPPIN FOR FORBES

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REAL ESTATE

Donald Trumps the White House


Its beyond debate: His luxurious new D.C. hotel will be yuuuge.

BIZ QUIZ

The Ship List


Can you match the billionaire with his or her superyacht?
DOES THE SIZE of a billionaires yacht correspond to a big bank account? Do the extravagant extras offer insight
into its skipper? These six superyachtswhich range from a cozy 194 feet to a cushy 533 feetbelong to individuals
with a combined wealth of $61 billion. In other words, their ships have come in.

a. David Geffen
$6.6 bil

b. Eric Schmidt
$10.4 bil

c. James Packer
$3.6 bil

d. Len Blavatnik
$15.5 bil

e. Laurene Powell Jobs


$17.3 bil

f. Roman Abramovich
$7.6 bil

1. Odessa II (length: 242 feet)


Overboard amenities: outdoor cinema
and beach club/spa

2. Rising Sun (length: 452 feet)


Overboard amenities: wine cellar and
regulation-size basketball court

3. Venus (length: 256 feet)


Overboard amenities: designed by Philippe Starck;
includes a discreet Jacuzzi

4. Arctic P (length: 287 feet)


Overboard amenities: a retractable pool,
Jacuzzi and dining-room table

5. Eclipse (length: 533 feet)


Overboard amenities: two helipads and
a missile-defense system

6. Oasis (length: 194 feet)


Overboard amenities: a pool and gym
that convert to a disco
ANSWERS:
1d; 2a; 3e; 4c; 5f; 6b

34 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

REAL ESTATE AND BIZ QUIZ BY MICHAEL SOLOMON


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WIN OR LOSE the 2016 election, Donald Trump is guaranteed to have some
prime real estate in Washington, D.C. next yearon Pennsylvania Avenue, no less.
In September the peoples billionaire will open the Trump International Hotel
(two years ahead of schedule) in the historic Old Post Office building just a few
blocks from the White House.
Not only will it have a Presidential Ballroom (at 13,200 square feet, itll be the
largest luxury ballroom in the nations capital) but the 263-room hotel will also
offer three presidential suites, the largest of which measures 6,300 square feet
roughly eight times the size of the Oval Office.

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FORBES @ 100

Billionaires First Bow: Oct. 5, 1987


FORBES PUBLISHED ITS rst ranking of the worlds billionaires with a 50-page
special report: A billion dollars seemed a good place to draw a line between wealth
and great wealth. How someone managed to make or hold a billion dollars is likely
to tell you something about how the world works. The issue highlighted names
both well-known (Kerry Packer) and less so (German mail-order queen Grete
Schickedanz) while excluding royalty (Saudi Arabias King Fahd) and dictators
(North Koreas Kim Il-Sung).
Only 24 countries were
home to billionaires; 67 are
today. China and Russia
had none; India just one.
One thing has remained
constant: America has
always had the most tengure fortunes. In 1987
the U.S. had 49; Japan
ranked second with 24,
followed by West Germany (13), the United Kingdom (7), and Hong Kong
and Canada (6 each).

National
boundaries
still satisfy
politicians,
but they no
longer restrain
businesspeople.

FAST-FORWARD

Ka-ching!
1987: Hong Kongs Li Ka-shing
(above) had turned a modest
fortune in plastics into
$1.2 billion thanks to some
well-timed investments in
Hong Kong real estate.
2016: Li is now Asias
second-richest man,
worth $27.1 billion
following decades
of expansion and
dealmaking, including
recent investments in
European telecom.

FACE FROM THE PAST

Pablo Escobar: drug lord and


billionaire. A husky, 5-foot6-inch man normally given to
rugby shirts, chino pants and
sneakers, Escobar is a prime
example of a Colombian paisa
an aggressive, unsentimental
hustler. Using that hustle,
Escobar reached the top of
Colombias Medelln Cartel
by shrewdly reinvesting his
initial earnings and becoming a
master of public relations. He
spent a year incarcerated in a
luxurious prison he reportedly
designed himself; after escaping,
he was killed in a shoot-out
with Colombian security forces
(assisted by the U.S.) in 1993.

36 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

SIGN OF THE TIMES

Japans Heyday

[Escobar] built a reputation as a Robin


Hood, erecting housing for the poor and
opening a zoo to the public. A member
of the DEA groused that the importing
of exotic animals for the zoo seemed
to have brought more trouble from the
government than his drug business.

In the 80s Japan


soared, propelled by
the manufacturing and
technology dominance
of companies such as
Sony. In 1987 railroad
and real estate titan
Yoshiaki Tsutsumi
(left) was the worlds
richest person. Despite
Japans economic
doldrums ever since,
Tsutsumi remained a
billionaire until 2007,
when his scandalweakened empire
began to crumble.

BY ABRAM BROWN
CHINAFOTOPRESS/GETTY IMAGES; KYODO NEWS/NEWSCOM; GETTY IMAGES

When Crime Does Pay

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Kirk Kerkorian

KUWAIT, $1.25 BIL

Too Few College


Classes for Billionaires

KAREN JOHNSON
BOYD, 91
U.S., $2.5 BIL

SIDHARTH BURMAN,
70

Someone has to take


a stand: The 0.00001%
deserve higher
education tailored to
their interests, too.
IN JULY 2014 legendary investor Tim Draper (above)
and a friend started VCx at Draper Universityan
$18,000 invitation-only minicourse that teaches the
fabulously rich the rudiments of deal ow. Its an
opportunity for billionaires who want to get into venture
capital to learn from some of the best, Draper says.
What about the other Great Courses for ten-gure
teachers pets? Weve got their semester covered.
MACROECONOMICS
Professor George Soros
Nearly 25 years later, Prof. Soros is still
dining out (literally) on the 1 billion
he made in a month after shorting the
pound sterling. Annoyed with some dimwitted central bank? Learn how to show
Poindexter and friends whos really boss.

POLITICAL SCIENCE
Professor Michael Bloomberg
Think youd make a great Oval Office
denizen, even if the benighted huddled
masses have no idea how lucky theyd be
to have you? Prof. Bloomberg will outline
proven strategies for showing just enough
ankle to keep the rubes tantalized. (No
fatties or gun nuts, please.)

TRADE POLICY
Professor Mikhail Prokhorov
Buy side? Sell side? How about losing
side! Do-gooders who love helping
others will thrill to Prof. Prokhorovs
tales of turning the Brooklyn Nets
into an NBA laughingstock through
confounding player swaps and draftpick duncery. Nothing engenders a
warm glow, after all, like others taking
constant advantage of you.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Professor Steve Ballmer
Who among us hasnt been inspired
by the sight of Prof. Ballmer onstage
at a Microsoft event, carrying on like
the late Sam Kinison? Hell share all
his top tness moves, including the
Pit-Sweat Shimmy and the Incipient
Aneurysm. Bring Handi Wipes.

JASSIM AL-KHARAFI
75

INDIA, $1 BIL

CHANG YUNG-FA, 88
TAIWAN, $1.8 BIL

ALFRED JAMES
CLARK, 87
U.S., $1.4 BIL

CLAUDE DAUPHIN,
64
FRANCE, $1.4 BIL

HUBERT DORNANO,
89
FRANCE, $1.1 BIL

MARIA LUISA SOLARI


FALABELLA, 73
CHILE, $2.4 BIL

SUSAN HIRT HAGEN,


79
U.S., $2.1 BIL

IN MEMORIAM

INGEBURG HERZ, 95

Farewell

MICHAEL JAHARIS,
87

KIRK KERKORIAN, 98
(U.S., $4.2 BILLION)

The irrepressible businessmans life story read,


ttingly, as if ripped straight from an implausible
Hollywood script: middle-school dropout, pilot
trainer during World War II, major Las Vegas
developer, pioneering activist investor and owner
of MGM Studios.
FRED DELUCA, 67
(U.S., $2.5 BILLION)

In 1965, to help pay for college, DeLuca cofounded


Subway, a sandwich shop that ultimately grew
into the worlds largest restaurant chain. From its
humble roots in Bridgeport, Conn., Subway now
assembles footlongs in 44,000 restaurants as far
aeld as Afghanistan and Zambia.
HORST BRANDSTAETTER, 81
(GERMANY, $1.1 BILLION)

Creator of Legos chief rival, Playmobil. Brandstaetter joined the family business in 1952 and
guided it in a much more whimsical direction than
his forebears, who started the Brandstaetter Group
in 1876 as a maker of ornamental casket ttings.
JOE JAMAIL, 90
(U.S., $1.7 BILLION)

Bombastic, colorful Texas lawyer whose courtroom theatricsincluding his victorious 1987
representation of Pennzoil against Texaco, which
alone garnered Jamail more than $300 million in
feesearned him the moniker King of Torts.

GERMANY, $2.4 BIL

U.S., $2.2 BIL

MUSTAFA VEHBI
KO, 55
TURKEY, $1.05 BIL

JAN KULCZYK, 65
POLAND, $4 BIL

MARIA INES DE
LAFUENTE LACROZE,
71
ARGENTINA, $1.3 BIL

CHRISTOS LAZARI,
69
U.K., $2.1 BIL

LIN RONG SAN, 76


TAIWAN, $4.2 BIL

BRIJMOHAN LALL
MUNJAL, 92
INDIA, $3.8 BIL

ROBERT PICCININI,
73
U.S., $1 BIL

JOHANNA QUANDT,
89
GERMANY, $13.9 BIL

RICHARD
RAINWATER, 71
U.S., $2.8 BIL

RONALD SOUTHERN,
85
CANADA, $1.55 BIL

MAX MICHEL
SUBERVILLE, 83
MEXICO, $1.45 BIL

ALFRED TAUBMAN,
91
U.S., $3.1 BIL

KLAUS TSCHIRA, 74
GERMANY, $8.6 BIL

KARL WLASCHEK, 97
AUSTRIA, $4.2 BIL
NET WORTH AS OF MARCH 2015

38 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

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THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES

HOWARD SCHULTZ

THE
PRESIDENT
OF COFFEE
NATION
STARBUCKS CEO HOWARD SCHULTZ DOESNT WANT TO RUN
FOR THE WHITE HOUSE. BUT, BUOYED BY HIS COMPANYS
SURGING PERFORMANCE, THE BILLIONAIRE WANTS TO USE HIS
CAFFEINATED PERCH TO CHANGE AMERICAN DISCOURSE.
BY GEORGE ANDERS

Howard Schultz
roosting at
the Roastery,
Starbucks trickedout concept-storecum-roasting plant
in Seattle. Trust us:
Youll want one of
these in your city.

WHAT DOES STARBUCKS CEO Howard Schultz keep in


his pockets? Two keys stand out. One unlocks the most
lavish Starbucks store in the world: the 15,000-squarefoot Roastery. Situated in Seattles Capitol Hill neighborhood, it combines an upscale cafe with whirring conveyor
belts that ferry packages of freshly roasted coffee before
admiring customers. Let Nike have Niketown; Schultz has
created a Willy Wonka-style celebration of coffee.
The other key reveals something deeper. It opens the
shabby little store on the Seattle waterfront where Starbucks got its start. Its always 1971 there, with the same
rough-hewn bins and counters that dened the brand in
the days of the Vietnam War. Nobody has ever modernized the place. I go there at 4:15 a.m. sometimes, just by
myself, the 62-year-old Schultz tells me. Its the right
place whenever I need centering.
Centering? The last we checked, the willingness of
billionaire CEOs to recenter themselves was hovering
around zero. But thats Schultz: always the underdog, always blending the personal with the protable. Since
taking charge of Starbucks in the 1980s, he has turned
a regional coffee company into one of the worlds top
brands. Sales topped $19 billion in 2015, thanks to Starbucks ability to provide food and coffee along with a
feel-good environment where friends meet, students do
their homework and romances come of age. By delivering what he calls performance through the lens of humanity, Schultz has amassed a fortune of nearly $3 billion. Yet in any sustained conversation, he keeps going
back to when he was a nobody.
Im still this kid from Brooklyn who wanted to ght

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THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES


HOWARD SCHULTZ

early deprivations, he treasures them.


Schultz has discovered that America
and, in fact, the whole worldloves an
up-from-hardship story. His candor
about his beginnings in the gritty Canarsie section helps him strike a rapport with everyone from other chief executives to young black and Latino adults trying to nd
their rst jobs. Even though I dont have the same color
of skin, Schultz explains, I was one of those kids. I could
have today been one of those kids.
Its a classic American story, one that forced Schultz
to bat down rumors last year that he was going to run for
President. On paper, this self-made tycoon compares favorably to a certain bombastic billionaire springboarded with Daddys money. But Schultz wasnt at all interested in the campaign, in part because, while the 2016 presidential contenders debase themselves during this circuslike primary, Schultz already has a caffeinated bully pulpit
from which to steer discourseand Starbucks stunning
nancial performance affords him pretty much unbridled
authority to use it.
The shabby little
store on the Seattle
waterfront where
Starbucks began.
Schultz has the key
and sometimes
visits by himself
at 4 a.m., just to
center himself.

his way out, Schultz says. He grew up in the 1960s in


subsidized housing, steeped in the anxieties of a father
who suffered workplace injuries and couldnt hold a job.
I didnt go to an Ivy League school, Schultz reminds me.
I didnt go to business school. Instead of resenting those
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More than anything, Schultz wants to become Americas conciliator-in-chief. Hes troubled by the angry
tone in politics and everyday discourse, which makes
him think that, as a country, weve lost our conscience.
Searching for inspiration, hes traveled everywhere from
veterans hospitals to an Indian ashram in the past year,
asking people to share their stories and their beliefs.
Now he wants Starbucks to be the place where people
can get excited about voting again, where people can
courteously discuss tough issues such as gun rights and
race relationsand where we can elevate citizenship
and humanity.
It all sounds lovely, but last March Schultzs crusade
blew up in his face. Everything started smoothly when
the Starbucks boss began asking employees in late 2014
about Americas race relations. He was jolted by the upheaval in Ferguson, Mo., after a white policeman was
exonerated in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black
teen. His employees were, too. Their private conversations were raw, heartfelt and cathartic. Baristas and store
managers burst into tears, talking about ugly moments
they had seen. People hugged. Everyone wished that
America could overcome its past. Schultz was so moved

YOU KNOW WHAT? YOUVE


BEEN HERE 16 YEARS. YOU
DESERVE A VACATION. WERE
GOING TO GET YOU ONE.
that he decided to relaunch these conversations in 7,000
Starbucks stores. Baristas were encouraged to write
Race Together on millions of patrons coffee cups.
Then, somehow, good things would result.
What unfolded was a national embarrassment. Hectic
morning-coffee lines, full of strangers, proved far chillier than a staff meeting with time for hugs. Baristas felt
hurled into an edgy new role without any training. Patrons found the gesture bewildering. After this awkward
start many baristas put their pens in hiding. Starbucks
ended the initiative after a week. (The company says that
was always the plan.)
Undeterred, the Seattle coffee kings ambitions remain
as big as ever, with Schultz targeting death-penalty injustices, chronic unemployment, veterans needs and the college aspirations of his baristas. Watching Schultzs crusades in the wake of the race debacle is akin to seeing a
sword-swallower at a carnival. Each project generates its
own rush of excitement. Each is tinged by a thrilling, terrifying sense that it could all go horribly wrong in an instant.
A few weeks ago Schultz and I ended up at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in an empty theater, sipping Star44 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

bucks Aged Sumatra from paper cups. Schultz was collecting his thoughts, minutes before going onstage to re
up 300 of his employees about his favorite topic: whats
wrong in society and how his company could be a force
for good. Weve got this big idea, he told me, in a voice
that mixed eagerness and hesitation. Its like a piece of
clay, but its not yet shaped. Im going to ask people for
their help.
BOUNDING ONTO THE BROOKLYN stage, Schultz began
by ticking off issues that concerned him: death benets for soldiers killed in Iraq or Afghanistan; gun safety;
and the 2016 presidential election. Were not just here
to raise the stock price, he declared. What can we do to
use our strength for social good?
Over the next 90 minutes 34 store managers and
baristas took the microphone to share their ideas and
concerns. As with most voters, they were less interested in policy theoriessave a few that talked about their
own volunteer work in local schoolsand much more
into the gritty realities of their daily lives. We get a lot of
homeless people in our stores. Can we get more security?
Can we get more training for the baristas? Could there
be a child-care option?
If Schultz was disappointed, he didnt let on. Thats
a great idea, he told several questioners. Were working on it, he reassured others. When one part-time employee wanted to know why he wasnt getting much paid
vacation time, Schultz started to lob the question toward a human-relations specialist in the audienceand
then caught himself in midsentence. You know what?
Schultz declared. Youve been here 16 years. You deserve a vacation. Were going to get you one. The room
burst into applause. Schultz came over to give the barista
a hug, and someone snapped a picture.
Watching Schultz work a crowd, you can see why he
would have made a natural candidate. But the political
bug has faded. A lifelong Democrat, Schultz says he no
longer thinks government holds the answers to the issues that concern him most. He has little interest in visiting Washington, and hasnt made a presidential political contribution since supporting Barack Obama in 2008.
Board member Mellody Hobson is even clearer: Howard knows himself well enough to realize that a role in
national politics isnt right for him.
Yet Schultz cant surrender his dream of xing America. At the very least, he can make Starbucks itself a laboratory for developing a better society. In the past year
Starbucks has set up 19 cafes on the edge of military
bases, going out of its way to hire veterans and activeduty spouses to work there. Another initiative is a partnership with other big companies to convene giant job
fairs in cities such as Phoenix, Chicago and Los Angeles, inviting out-of-work young adults for job interviews.

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MISSES INTO HITS


Mazagran
A bubbly variant of coffee
with spices (hmmm) that
arrived (and vanished!) in
1994. Eventually Starbucks
morphed it into

Frappuccino

Vivanno
Smoothies for dummies. Fruit and whey
protein, scooped in by the spoonful. It
was a 200809 misstep that overlapped
subprime debt, and did about as well.
Now the company is making a new attempt with proper smoothies from

Evolution Fresh

Starbucks Coffee
Liqueur
Nuff said.

Chantico

Chicken
Lettuce Wraps

A drinkable dessert from 2005.


Too sweet. A better idea was an
old classic.

Under 500 calories.


Healthy. Not appetizing.

Hot Chocolate

Omega-3
Bistro Box

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A third program, started in 2014, provides baristas and


other employees a chance to earn an online college degree from Arizona State Universitywith Starbucks absorbing all tuition costs.
At most companies, any CEO so immersed in social
causes would risk a shareholder mutiny. Schultz cant
ignore his investors; he owns just under 3% of the
company. But Starbucks is a special case, says Chief
Financial Officer Scott Maw, who joined the coffee
company in 2011 after many years in the hard-nosed
cultures of General Electric and JPMorgan Chase.
When youre selling lattes instead of locomotives or
loans, Maw observes, a $3.45 grande isnt just a beverage;
its a ticket into a pleasant experience and an ethically
sound way of doing things. Schultzs crusades have become part of the product, morphing Starbucks into one
of the biggest social businesses on the planet.
Howard Schultz has always wanted to do something
bigger than selling caffeine, says Bryant Simon, a history professor at Temple University who wrote Everything but the Coffee, a 2009 book about Starbucks. Simon
is the gady who wont go away, contending that most
of Schultzs initiatives are brilliantly positioned mirages.
Take Ethos, the Starbucks-owned house brand of bottled
water. Customers may be excited that ve cents of their
purchase goes toward providing people access to clean
water. In truth, when bottled water costs $1.80 a container, Starbucks keeps 97% of the purchase price.
Even the free-college initiative displeases Simon,
who regards it as a public relations stunt, meant to convince Starbucks customers that baristas arent trapped in
a dead-end job. Were supposed to believe that theyre
all working toward a better future, with their employer
covering the tab, Simon remarks. I wonder how many
baristas will ever get a degree.
Schultz wonders, too. The free-college initiative with
ASU started about two years agoand 5,000 employees have already enrolled. To date 44 have earned degrees. Another 100-plus expect to graduate this spring.
Its a struggle for baristas to get their old communitycollege credits transferred into the ASU system, to settle
on a major and to meet all the deadlines for registration,
term papers and the like. Since announcing the program,
both Starbucks and ASU have stepped up their efforts to
coach these online students through the full college process, rather than just handing them a student log-in code
and hoping for the best. The graduation rate will likely
keep climbing, but it could take another three or four
years before the programs results are clear.
Most executives dont have that much time. Periodically, Schultz gets calls from younger executives
who want to know how they, too, can advocate for social causes without running the risk of getting red.
Marvin Ellison, the CEO of J.C. Penney, has sought him

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Bill Gates

Mark Zuckerberg

Peter Lewis

George Soros

If only public high schools werent


so big! That belief inspired the
Microsoft cofounder to spend $2
billion of his foundations capital in
an effort to create smaller schools
across the U.S. In the foundations
2009 letter to the world, Gates
conceded many of the small
schools that we invested in did not
improve students achievement in
any signicant way.

New mogul, same problem:


troubled schools meet tech genius.
In 2010 Facebooks CEO injected
$100 million to rehabilitate Newark,
N.J.s perennially failing school system. Alas for Zuckerberg, teachers
didnt buy into the plan, consultants proliferated, and
students continued to struggle
after the money ran out.

The late chairman of Progressive


Insurance spent well over $40 million on various campaigns to get
weed legalized. That didnt stop
him from being arrested in New
Zealand for marijuana possession.
State voters generally said no to
legalization, but in 2012, before his
death, Colorado and Washington
State said yes.

Starting in the 1980s, the hedge


fund titan began pouring money
into eastern Europe, hoping to
promote more open societies.
His generosity overwhelmed
tiny organizations that couldnt
handle so much cash at once. My
grand schemes seem to fail by
a hairs breadth, Soros ruefully
acknowledged in his 1991 book,
Underwriting Democracy.

out. So has John Zimmer, the president of Lyft, the San


Francisco ride-sharing company. Schultzs blunt advice:
You have to earn the right. Spend years winning investors trust by delivering strong results. Once youve done
that, your degrees of freedom increase greatly. Get excited about nonbusiness goals too early, and the trapdoor of
termination can open at any time.
A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK SCHULTZ founded Starbucks.
He didnt. The real founders, Gordon Bowker, Zev Siegl
and Jerry Baldwin, opened shop in 1971. Schultz didnt
join the company until the 1980s. But Schultz has been
running the company for so long that he thinksand behaveslike a founder. He gets up a little after 4 a.m. each
morning to study the previous days sales reports. He
nudges Starbucks brewmasters to put more Aged Sumatra into each autumns Reserve Holiday Blend, because
its his favorite coffee and he knows it tastes great. Even
the tiniest details worry him, because deep down he still
thinks of each store as his store. At a recent staff meeting he couldnt keep still when staffers showed him some
postcard-size cards announcing a new music partnership with Spotify. (Black looks so dull, Schultz exploded. Were talking about music. This should be lively.
Can we go with green instead?)
If the big boss needs to ratify everything, though, de48 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

cision making slows to a crawl. Mindful of his own limits, Schultz has beefed up Starbucks management team
in recent years with a wide range of proven leaders from
outside. These include a chief operating officer with a
Microsoft background (Kevin Johnson) and a chief strategist with a Disney pedigree (Matt Ryan.) Theres a lot
more here than just The Howard Show, says J.C. Penney Chairman Myron Ullman, who has been a Starbucks
director since 2003. Leadership doesnt have to come
from Howard on every topic.
The payoff: growth that never stops. Starbucks stock
surged 48% in 2015, and despite a choppy start to 2016,
the companys market capitalization is approaching
$86 billion. While coffee remains the main event, food
offerings keep expanding, with sales that have more than
doubled in the past ve years. (Why not pair that cappuccino with a chicken artichoke sandwich on ancientgrain atbread?) Customer lines move faster, now that
16 million patrons are signed up for Starbucks mobile
payment app. Fewer people fumble for change, sales per
hour increase and protability inches higher. Starbucks
margins before interest and taxes run at 19.7%, double
the likes of Chipotle or Panera.
More fun lies ahead, say Wall Street analysts, who expect Starbucks to keep expanding margins by one percentage point a year until at least 2018. Even controver-

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sies end up being good for business, as shown by a kerfuffle last November when Starbucks offered red cups
that didnt include any reference to the Christmas holidays. A few evangelists got upset. Television stations
rushed to cover the story, and the amped-up attention
helped Starbucks ring up record sales.
Sometimes winning ideas happen in spite of Schultz,
rather than because of him. In 2008 Schultz angrily insisted that Starbucks stop selling melted-cheese breakfast sandwiches, because the smell of toasted cheddar
was overwhelming the gentler aroma of fresh-brewed
coffee. Guess what? Melted cheese made a comeback.
The new version is cooked at 500 degrees Fahrenheit instead of 1,100 and with smaller slices of medium cheddar instead of big slices of sharp cheddar. Howard can
always be convinced, says Luigi Bonini, Starbucks head
of product development.
Rather than try to do everything, Schultz lately has
been gravitating toward Starbucks newest, fastest-growing projectswhich mesh well with his underdog mindset. He has become Mr. China, making quarterly trips
to Beijing and Shanghai as well as a host of inland cities where Starbucks has big ambitions. Right now those
stores mostly sell tea, Frappuccinos and mooncakes in
the afternoon. Before long, Schultz says with a smile,
China may embrace the morning ritual of coffee, too.
Starbucks now has 2,000 stores in China, quadruple
its total just ve years ago. Shanghai (432) has overtaken Seoul and New York as the city with the most Star50 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

bucks cafes. Other companies CEOs may stress about


Chinas recent stumbles; not Schultz. He believes an unstoppable expansion of Chinas middle class will benet
his company, regardless. One day, Schultz told analysts
in January, China could very well be larger than the U.S.
business.
Schultzs other big project: defending the high end
of the coffee market with aplomb. Hes seen mass-market brands like Budweiser and Hershey lose allure as microbreweries and artisanal chocolate makers position
themselves as the true champions of taste. Nobody will
trap Starbucks that way, he vows. Yes, the coffee scene
now includes ambitious upstarts like Philz, Blue Bottle, Intelligentsia and Stumptown that are turning heads
with ultrafancy beans and serving styles. And, yes, the
newcomers have raised the stakes by marketing, say, 12ounce bags of Three Africans (a blend of Ethiopian and
Congolese beans) for $15.75.
Schultz isnt fazed. Hes jousting back with smaller
packages of even pricier beans, packaged in distinctive
bags as Starbucks Reserve. An 8.8-ounce pouch of pure
Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Chelba goes for $17.50, perched
among other upscale offerings in their own showcase
in regular Starbucks stores, along with artful marketing
promotion (Exotic, rare, exquisite). The fanciest coffees show beautifully in Seattles ultra-elegant Roasteryand Schultz plans to make the most of that pairing,
with plans to open more Roasterys in the U.S. and Asia.
Schultz keeps e-mailing board members his iPhone photos of the Roastery in action, day or night. Howards a
fanatic, says Starbucks director Hobson.
Starbucks directors retire at age 75, which is 13
years away for Schultz. He says he may step down as
CEO before then. He kicked himself upstairs to the role
of just chairman once before, from 2000 to 2007, so he
could try other diversions such as owning the Seattle
SuperSonics basketball team. Starbucks performance
faltered, and Schultz reinstated himself as CEO in a
boardroom coup. He says hes pacing himself better
this time around, listening more and showing more patience with other people. Running a big company is a
young mans game, in terms of the energy required, the
stamina, the curiosity, Schultz concedes. Even so, he
says he plans to stick around a while longer. His mission is not fully accomplished.
CEDRIC KING LOST BOTH HIS LEGS in 2012 when he
stepped on an improvised bomb during combat in Afghanistan. About 19 months later his path crossed with
Howard Schultzs at Walter Reed National Military
Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. The wounded Army
Ranger was stuck in a wheelchair, struggling to master a pair of prosthetic limbs in hopes of walking again.
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gle for a book that he and a co-writer were developing


about Americas veterans. Everyone chatted for about an
hour in the hospitals cafeteria. It was a nice conversation, King recalls, but I didnt think Id ever see Howard Schultz again.
Not so. After Schultz and King swapped e-mails, in
the summer of 2015 someone from Schultzs family foundation called King with an unusual proposition. The
foundation was helping to organize a series of job fairs
around the U.S., aimed at Americas most unemployable young adults. The event could use some motivational speakers. King had been busy competing in marathons
and triathlons. Would he be willing to come to Chicago,
as a paid speaker? How about Phoenix? How about Los
Angeles?
Take a close look at how Schultz spends his time, and
its startling how often he hurls himself into the emotional tornadoes of other peoples troubles, hoping he
can be a force for good. When former SuperSonics star
Vin Baker ended up broke and struggling with the ravages of alcoholism, Schultz helped set him up in a Star-

MR. HINTON HADNT HELD A


FORK IN 30 YEARS. MEETING
HIM WAS A LIFE-CHANGING
EXPERIENCE.
bucks management program so he could learn to run
stores. When death-row attorney Bryan Stevenson wrote
Just Mercy, a book about his struggles to free wrongly
convicted inmates, Schultz insisted that Starbucks cafes
sell the workeven if it seemed like a crazy juxtaposition next to the cash registers usual fare of biscotti and
almonds.
Reading Just Mercy wasnt enough. Schultz invited his way into Stevensons offices and spent part of a
morning with Anthony Ray Hinton, a man freed after
nearly three decades in Alabamas prison system. Mr.
Hinton hadnt held a fork in 30 years, Schultz told me.
He had zero bitterness. He was just a calm, timid, elderly man. Meeting him was a life-changing experience.
The Alabama lawyers book graced Starbucks stores for
months, becoming a New York Times bestseller. After
such intense experiences, staying in the corner office and
engaging in checkbook philanthropy isnt fullling for
me, Schultz says.
Remember Hurricane Katrina? Three years later,
when Starbucks employees volunteered en masse to
help New Orleans rebound, Schultz found himself at a
home-rebuilding project. Spying a ladder and a bucket of paint on-site, Schultz announced that he wanted
to help paint the house, too. Howard had a bad back at
52 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

the time, Starbucks executive Rodney Hines recalled.


We tried to stop him. But he wouldnt take no for an
answer.
Remember Ferguson? Schultz last year paid a call to
that troubled Missouri town, too. Instead of taking the
short route to and from the St. Louis airport, he meandered through back streets, gawking at plywood-boarded
windows and ruined homes marked for demolition. Partway through the drive, two companions recall, Schultz
declared: We need to have a store in this city. Since
then ground has been broken; a store is being built and is
in the process of hiring 20 to 25 people. Opening day is
set for this spring.
Spurring Schultz on are moody memories of the crises he didnt x early in his career. In the mid-1980s,
he recalls, he made his rst business trip to Guatemala,
checking up on bean suppliers. Growers whispered that
only a small fraction of the money Schultzs company
was paying was ending up in growers pockets. Guatemalas payment system was rife with kickbacks and undisclosed commissions. Schultz felt he was too new and
puny to do anything about it; that inaction rankles him to
this day.
An increasing number of Schultzs projects now are
being conducted through the $100 million Schultz Family Foundation, which he and his wife, Sheri, oversee.
The foundation currently holds only a thin slice of his
wealth, but he says it will become much bigger in the
years ahead. Its current priorities: helping veterans resettle into the U.S. economy and promoting job initiatives for people aged 16 to 24 who arent in school and
havent found work.
At a recent foundation-sponsored jobs fair in Los Angeles, Starbucks was one of more than 30 employers
seeking recruits. Even so, Schultz was everywhere: chatting with Latino and African-American attendees about
their aspirations, apologizing for his navy-blue suit (Its
my armor)and squeezing onto the convention centers main concrete oor to become part of the mosh-pit
throng absorbing Army Master Sgt. Kings talk.
Sweat dripping from his brow, the wounded soldier
bellowed out his message to 6,000 attendees. The only
thing that matters is your attitude! he declared. I dont
have legs now, but this is what Ive got to work with.
Abruptly, King lifted a cuff of his pinstripe trousers, revealing a titanium rod where his shin used to be. People
gasped. A moment later King delivered his payoff line:
Youve got to nd a way to take whatever youve got
and make it work for you.
Fifteen feet from the stage, surrounded by people onethird his age, the president of coffee nation was beaming.
It was as if he were hearing Kings story for the rst time.
Hope was sweeping through the hall. Schultz wanted to
inhale this pheromone as deeply as possible. F

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bottom-shers with steel constitutions
and a penchant for rushing into re sales.
Like short-sellers, they are often despised because they prey on the weak
companies and individuals who made
bad bets or got in over their heads. Distressed investor is a sanitized version
of less attering terms from bygone Wall
Street eras: vultures, grave dancers, robber barons.
Among the robber barons of the new
millennium, few are as secretiveor as
loathed or as successfulas John Grayken
of Lone Star Funds. The 59-year-old debuts on the FORBES Billionaires list with
a net worth of $6.3 billion, making him
the second-wealthiest private equity manager in the world, behind Blackstones
Stephen Schwarzman. Lone Star has
amassed assets of $64 billion, and since
its inception in 1995 its 15 funds have
logged average annual net returns of 20%,
without a single year in the red.
Schwarzmans Blackstone, which has
assets of $336 billion, has comparable average annual returns of 17%.
However, unlike Schwarzman, who
employs a small army of professionals
to help him and his rm burnish their
image through various benevolent causes,
Grayken appears to care little about getting good press. You wont nd any libraries or schools or hospitals with his
name on them. He hasnt signed Warren Buffetts Giving Pledge. And hes anything but a patriot: In an effort to avoid
taxes, he renounced his U.S. citizenship
in 1999. Youll nd him on our list as a citizen of Ireland.
Since the Great Recession Grayken has
made a specialty of buying up distressed
and delinquent home mortgages from
government agencies and banks worldwide. Hes also picked up a major payday
lender, a Spanish home builder and an
Irish hotel chain. Regulators hassle him,
and the homeowners whose mortgages
he owns or services despise his tactics. In
fact, he has become accustomed to taking
shots from detractors and has been the
subject of protests from New York to Berlin to Seoul. Last year New York Attorney
General Eric Schneiderman reported54 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

JOHN GRAYKEN

SHADOW
BANKER
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FORTUNE IN PRIVATE EQUITY,
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DEMONIZES PREDATORY BANKING,
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ly opened an investigation into Graykens heavy-handed mortgage-servicing tactics, including aggressive


foreclosures, which have unleashed widespread outcries from homeowners, housing advocates and trade
unions.
There are real questions about the human costs of
Lone Star Funds business practices, says Elliott Mallen, a research analyst for Unite Here, a union representing 270,000 hotel and industrial workers.
Its even doubtful Grayken, who refused to comment for this story, is well liked within his own rm.
According to pension fund documents, he is the sole
owner of Lone Star and its affiliated asset management
rm, Hudson Advisors. Unlike other major private equity rms, which generously share equity among partners, Grayken has a tight grip on his rms ownership.
While his top employees have become multimillionaire-rich, a number of key lieutenants have departed as
Grayken has apparently never valued anyone enough
to offer signicant ownership in his operation.
The one group that loves Grayken: pension fund
managers, who consider him an alpha god and who
happily overlook his sins. Over the decades John has
had phenomenal returns and executed a very disci-

REGULATORS HASSLE HIM,


AND HOMEOWNERS DESPISE
HIS TACTICS, BUT PENSION
MANAGERS CONSIDER HIM
AN ALPHA GOD AND HAPPILY
OVERLOOK HIS SINS.
plined investment strategyhe is in a league of his
own, says Nori Gerardo Lietz, a Harvard Business
School professor who ran one of the largest rms that
advise pension funds on their private equity investments. Many of the other real estate and private equity players are really jealous of John Grayken.
The Oregon Public Employees Retirement System has invested $2.2 billion in many of Lone Stars
funds. In 2013, for example, it committed $180 million
in Lone Star Fund VIII and has already posted annualized net returns of 29%. A $4.6 billion fund Grayken
raised in 2010 has returned 52% per year to Oregon
pensioners.
With regulators all over the world forcing big banks
to deleverage and retreat from various risky businesses, hedge funds and private equity rms like Lone Star
have stepped in and are making a killing buying assets from banks on the cheap. Distressed specialists
like Grayken, Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital and
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Leon Black of Apollo Group have become a new powerful class of shadow bankers. Among them the most
shadowy is John Grayken.
LAST YEAR THE BRITISH TABLOIDS wondered who
had purchased one of the U.K.s most expensive
homes in Londons Chelsea district. The nine-bedroom, nine-bathroom, 17,500-square-foot brick mansion with a glass elevator, basement pool, cinema and
Japanese water garden was purchased for $70 million by a Bermuda company. Evidence of the mysterious buyer can be found in a Massachusetts state
court, where the home is listed as Graykens address
in a probate filing. Grayken is also the owner of a
15-bedroom manor house on 20 acres outside of London that was featured in The Omen, a 1976 horror film
starring Gregory Peck. Corporate records also show
Grayken owning a massive Swiss estate overlooking
Lake Geneva.
Though Graykens rm is headquartered in Dallas,
he lives in London because he cant spend much more
than 120 days a year in the U.S. without having to pay
the U.S. taxman. People who know him say he likes
to summer close to his family in Cohasset, Mass., the
Boston suburb where he was raised. In Cohasset, the
small, private White Head Island, which dances in the
Atlantic Ocean, cut off from the mainland by a small
bridge, belongs to a Bermuda company controlled by
Grayken, which purchased it for $16.5 million in two
transactions in 2004 and 2007.
Grayken grew up in a less rareed section of Cohasset, where he excelled at school and on the ice rink. He
studied economics at the University of Pennsylvania,
where he was a defenseman for the hockey team. In a
nifty bit of foreshadowing, he broke the team record
for penalty minutes. After Penn he got his M.B.A. from
Harvard Business School in 1982 and then landed in
investment banking at Morgan Stanley.
Grayken wanted to be a real estate developer and
eventually found a job working for Texas billionaire
Robert Bass on an office-tower deal in Nashville. The
project wasnt a huge success, but the Tennessee experience cemented Graykens relationship with Bass and
introduced him to his rst wife, a Nashville native.
At the time the billionaire Bass brother (see sidebar, p. 58) had been successfully investing his inherited fortune with the help of a talented group of future
Wall Street titans that included David Bonderman and
Thomas Barrack. These were the days after the junkbond-fueled S&L crisis, when the government-sanctioned Resolution Trust Corp. was liquidating hundreds of failed institutions.
In 1988 one of the largest, American Savings Bank
of Stockton, Calif., caught the eye of Bass, who bought

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Sid Bass

Edward Bass

Robert Bass

Lee Bass

THE BASS BILLIONAIRES

David
Bonderman
With a net worth of
$2.5 billion, Bonderman was a Washington lawyer before he
started working for
Robert Bass. He went
on to cofound TPG,
one of the worlds
biggest private equity
rms.

James Coulter

Marc Lasry

He cofounded TPG
after working for
Robert Bass and now
has a net worth of $2.1
billion. Coulter has
been trying to take
TPG through an initial
public offering, a path
other big private equity rms have taken.

Lasry worked at a
Robert Bass outt
that focused on distressed investments
before cofounding
hedge fund Avenue
Capital with his sister.
Hes worth $1.7 billion
and is part owner of
the Milwaukee Bucks.

the thrift and with the help of Barrack began selling its
assets at a big prot. At Basss direction Grayken was
dispatched to southern California to join the team and
work with Barrack at a Bass affiliate that would become Colony Capital.
Barrack and Grayken did not get along, say people
who know both men. Next, Bass put Grayken in charge
of a $130 million partnership called Brazos (named
after a Texas river where the Bass family is based) that
worked with the FDIC to purchase 1,300 bad bank
assets. Grayken quickly ipped them, making tens of
millions of dollars in prots. Bass then backed Grayken
in a bigger bad-loan fund, which Grayken transformed
into about $160 million in prots. Most of the benets,
58 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

Richard
Rainwater

Edward
Lampert

Thomas
Barrack

The legendary dealmaker succumbed to


a rare brain disease
last year at age 71.
He was a stockbroker
when Sid Bass hired
him. Rainwater eventually started his own
investment rm a few
oors below Sids ofce and died with an
estimated net worth
of $3 billion.

A hedge fund manager who has amassed


a $2.2 billion fortune,
he spends much of
his time these days as
CEO of Sears. Richard
Rainwater hired Lampert when he was a
25-year-old Goldman
Sachs trainee.

A stint managing real


estate investments for
Robert Bass evolved
into Barracks big
Colony Capital real estate rm. He dropped
off the FORBES
Billionaires list in 2014
after some performance struggles.

however, went to Bass.


When Grayken and Bass couldnt agree on how
to share the profits for the next fund, the duo parted ways in 1996. Grayken stayed in Dallas, raised
some $400 million and called his new operation Lone
Star Funds. His specialty was buying nonperforming mortgage loans, but he started to originate some
mortgages and directly purchase real estate. Starting
with Canada, Grayken also ventured into international markets.
Early on he made several strategic decisions that
would dene his success and differentiate him from
competitors. Unlike Colony, Apollo and other opportunity funds that grew out of the S&L crisis and ex-

BASSES: ANDREW H. WALKER/GETTY IMAGES; BARRY BRECHEISEN/GETTY IMAGES; PHELAN M. EBENHACK/BLOOMBERG; DALLAS MORNING NEWS
BONDERMAN: ANDREW HARRER/BLOOMBERG; COULTER: THOMAS LEE/BLOOMBERG; LASYR: MICHAEL NAGLE/BLOOMBERG; LAMPERT: AMANDA GORDON/BLOOMBERG; BARRACK: JIN LEE/BLOOMBERG

THE FOUR BILLIONAIRE BASS BROTHERSSID, EDWARD, ROBERT AND LEEINHERITED A SMALL FORTUNE FROM THEIR OIL-TYCOON
UNCLE FOUR DECADES AGO AND HAVE BUILT IT UP TO A COMBINED $8.2 BILLION. THEIR ORGANIZATION SPAWNED TALENTED INVESTMENT
PROFESSIONALS WHO WENT ON TO BECOME PRIVATE EQUITY AND HEDGE FUND TITANS. JOHN GRAYKEN IS THE RICHEST OF THEM ALL.

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HOMES FIT FOR A SUBPRIME MORTGAGE KING


MAKING GREAT REAL ESTATE BUYS IS BOTH A PROFESSIONAL AND A PERSONAL PASSION FOR GRAYKEN.

White Head Island, Cohasset, Mass.

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Gland, Switzerland

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panded into other areas, Grayken stayed focused on


distressed assets linked to real estate, like delinquent
mortgages. When the U.S. economy was doing well, he
would set his sights on countries where tough times
meant easier pickings. By 1998 Lone Star was in Japan,
where ravaged banks preferred selling troubled loans
at sharp discounts privately, in order to save face, rather than hold embarrassing public auctions for potentially higher prices. By the end of the 1990s Grayken
had moved into troubled European nations like Germany and France.
Grayken also developed a reputation as a ipper.
The life cycle of his funds is shortinvestment periods of about three years or less. The assets come in, are
worked out and sold. Buying and holding la Buffett is
for suckers, according Graykens philosophy. At Lone
Star there are no pretenses about longer-term investing
or any sentimental attachments to assets, even in cases
where more prot can be squeezed out over a few more
months or years. Leaving meat on the bone for others is
ne. For Grayken the key part of any transaction has al-

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ways been a cheap purchase price, not any magic that


happens afterward. Others can nd ways to spruce up
assets if they like. We do our prot on the buy is how
Lone Stars president, Andr Collin, described the strategy in a February 2016 meeting. We do some of the value-add stuff from time to time if its there and part of
the plan, but if I have an opportunity to sell and I get a
good price for my investor, I sell.
Quick turnarounds work wonders in goosing the
all-important internal rates of returns on Lone Stars
funds. Shorter holding periods mean more distributions to investors, who reward Grayken by investing in his next fund. The fees Grayken charges are
rich. A typical Lone Star arrangement calls for a fee
of between 0.6% and 1% of assets under management. Lone Star then keeps 50% of all profits once
the funds return hits 8% and until it reaches 20%.
Beyond 20% Lone Star reaps between 20% and 25%
of the profits.
Grayken, to his credit, has a masterful way of simplifying the process of both buying and selling assets,
says David Hood, who helped found Lone Star and
worked there for six years. He has always bought in

FOR GRAYKEN A KEY PART


OF ANY TRANSACTION HAS
ALWAYS BEEN A CHEAP
PURCHASE PRICE, NOT
ANY MAGIC THAT HAPPENS
AFTERWARD. LEAVING MEAT
ON THE BONE FOR OTHERS IS
FINE.
volume to create liquidity when it wasnt otherwise
there, and he doesnt mince words. Just like a hockey
player, he is ready to take the gloves off.
One key aspect of Lone Stars superior returns:
Graykens Dallas-based asset management and due diligence arm, Hudson Advisors. Teams at Hudson are responsible for performing full nancial analyses and reviews of investment opportunities after Lone Stars
managers have identied them. After a deal closes, Hudson works out and services the loans. It also steps in
with legal and accounting help. Hudson now has 865
people, offices around the world and only one client:
Lone Star. In the subprime-mortgage business having
good data on pools is critical in pricing assets, so Hudson acts as Graykens valuable database, giving Lone Star
an edge. Its also a backdoor way for Grayken to personally extract extra prots from Lone Stars hefty asset
base. He owns 100% of it and charges Lone Star Funds
an average annual management fee of 0.55% of assets.
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WHILE PENSION MANAGERS eagerly await distribution checks from Grayken, tenants and owners of the
real estate he sets his sights on dread their new landlord. After he bought the discounted mortgages of ten
apartment buildings in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan from Anglo Irish Bank following the
nancial crisis, residents ew bedsheets out their windows that said, Speculators Beware. When Lone Star
started doing deals in Japan, it was locally referred to
as part of the hagetaka, or bald hawks. In South Korea
Lone Star is known as meoktwi, eat-and-run capital.
The German press called Lone Star the Executioner
from Texas after the rm bought a boatload of nonperforming loans that resulted in homeowner foreclosure proceedings.
Things got hot enough in Germany that Grayken
conducted a rare interview with a German publication to explain his side of the story. No matter where
we are active, we adhere to applicable laws, he said.
Lone Star has no interest to propel someone into insolvency. We prefer when people meet their payment
obligations. If not we will take appropriate action.
After the interview Grayken spent $775 million in 2012
to buy TLG Immobilien, an East German owner of 800
buildings held by the government. Within three years
Grayken ipped the property for a prot. German politicians argued that taxpayers had been cheated.
Germanys disdain for Grayken is nothing compared
with the reputation he has forged in South Korea. In
the aftermath of the late-1990s Asian nancial crisis, Lone Star bought a controlling share of Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) in 2003 for $1.8 billion. By 2007
Lone Star had received multiple offers for its KEB
stake, one as high as $6.4 billion. The deal produced
outrage in Seoul, where the perception was that the
most painful parts of the Asian nancial crisis were the
fault of foreign interests. There were legal and regulatory investigations into whether the stock prices of
KEB and a separate credit card operation were manipulated downward to enable their discounted purchase.
The Korean government blocked the sale, and Lone
Stars man in Korea, Paul Yoo, was convicted of manipulating the stock of the credit card unit and sentenced
to three years in jail. To make matters worse, another
Lone Star employee in Korea was caught embezzling
$11 million from the private equity rm.
Grayken denied any wrongdoing and argued that
the Korean governments actions were arbitrary and
discriminatory and ignored Lone Stars role in rescuing a big bank. Remarkably, Grayken persevered in
Korea and ultimately was able to sell his KEB ownership to Hana Financial in 2012, booking a reported $4 billion profit. This, of course, wasnt enough for
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er billions more in profits he believes he would have


gotten in the original deal.
And if you thought banks behaving badly in America were a thing of the past, Graykens Texas mortgage company, Caliber Home Loans, has become infamous for its tactics as a servicer of subprime loans,
some dating back to before the financial crisis. Caliber is one of the largest and fastest-growing mortgage
companies in the nation, managing more than 325,000
mortgages and worth some $70 billion. A good number of Calibers mortgages were purchased by Lone
Star Funds at a deep discount70 cents on the dollarduring auctions held by wards of the state Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac and the Department of Housing
& Urban Development.
In a stroke of brilliant nancial maneuvering Lone
Star bundled some of the mortgages into bonds and sold
them to investors, immediately booking large prots. At
the same time Caliber offered temporary loan modications to distressed borrowers that consisted of veyear interest-only payment plans but failed to offer the
homeowners any permanent relief through principal reduction. At the end of the ve years these loans would
revert back to the original payment terms, with all the

THE GERMANS CALLED HIM


THE EXECUTIONER FROM
TEXAS AFTER LONE STAR
BOUGHT A BOATLOAD OF
NONPERFORMING LOANS THAT
RESULTED IN HOMEOWNER
FORECLOSURES.
deferred payments added in.
Lone Star has bought these loans at a discount
from the governmentin effect, they got principal reduction. But they are not passing this benet on to
homeowners or communities, says Lisa Donner, executive director of Americans for Financial Reform.
Technically speaking, the federal government does
not require Graykens operation to offer principal reduction, but there has been a roar of voices claiming
that Lone Star is abusing the situation. In February the
National Housing Resource Center released a survey
of nonprot housing counselors that showed Caliber
was the nations lowest-rated big servicer and among
those doing the worst job of complying with the servicing rules. A labor union is accusing Caliber of
building a new Countrywide Financial, given that its
CEO and top executives are refugees from that hotbed
of housing-crisis instigators.
In September the New York Times reported that
64 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

many of the delinquent mortgages Loan Star bought


have ended in foreclosure. Its editorial board went on to
accuse Lone Star of relying on the foreclosure and resale of the homes to make money. New York Attorney
General Eric Schneiderman reportedly opened an investigation. Lone Star and Caliber declined to comment.
None of this has slowed Grayken, who has gobbled
up $120 billion in assets since the nancial crisis, including Home Properties, an apartment REIT in Rochester, N.Y., for $7.6 billion in October. His latest Lone
Star fund is now raising $5 billion trained on real estate in Europe, where banks are still rapidly deleveraging. Grayken has personally invested $250 million in
the fund, his 16th, adding to the $1.3 billion he already
has invested in Lone Stars other funds.
His pension clients, including the Employees Retirement System of Rhode Island, the New York State
Teachers Retirement System and Dallas Fire & Police Pension System, have yet to make a peep about
Graykens sleazy subprime mortgage operation. If they
have any concern about their American-born Irish
golden goose, its over Lone Stars succession and
Graykens health.
Over the years a parade of talented partners, almost
anyone Grayken has ever worked with closely, have left
the rm because they either felt shortchanged nancially or had disagreements with Grayken. His longtime number two, Ellis Short, who helped found Lone
Star, left in 2007. Short did well enough at Lone Star
to buy Sunderland, an English Premier League soccer
team. The divorce case of another former exec, Randy
Work, revealed that he had accumulated a $225 million
fortune.
Still, their riches pale in comparison with those of
Grayken, who rules with an iron st and has little tolerance for mistakes. He felt in many cases that the people
beneath him were interchangeable, says one former top
Lone Star manager. (Grayken has also had turnover in
his personal life. He divorced his rst wife shortly after
becoming a tax refugee, changed his mind, got her to
take him back within a month of the nal divorce decree
and then got redivorced six months after that. He eventually married his secretary in London, and the couple
have four children.)
Grayken recently ew to South Dakota to visit with
a pension client and allay succession fears. As a South
Dakota Investment Council member recently put it, I
am concerned about what happens when John passes
away. It might just all end.
But until that happens, the pension funds are happy
to deposit more retirement money in the Irish billionaires shadow bank. Shortly after the meeting, South
Dakota agreed to invest $300 million in Lone Stars
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AFRICAS
SAM
WALTON
FROM SHIRTS TO FURNITURE TO
GROCERIES, CHRISTO WIESE SELLS
BILLIONS IN LOW-COST GOODS TO A
CONTINENT CLAMORING FOR THEM.
AMERICA COULD BE NEXT.
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MARCH 21, 2016 FORBES | 67

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ABLE MOUNTAIN, THE STRIKING mesa


above Cape Town, lords over another impressive African monument: the multistory Golden Acre shopping center. Lunchtime crowds pour into the glassy, brightly lit structure, and from within it is impossible not to
notice the dominance of South Africas second-richest man, Christo Wiese. His bargain-bin clothier, PEP,
pulls foot traffic to the basement. Above it, youll nd
his more upscale Ackermans chain. Around the corner is his OK Furniture and his grocery chain, Shoprite,
which takes up two oors.
By and large, they all carry the same message.
PEPs window ads, accented in canary yellow, proclaim it the home of the Lowest Price in South Africa. Brightly colored bunting in OK Furniture heralds
a similar promise. Shoprite (among its many slogans:
Lower prices, thats our promise) will even play
moneylender, fronting customers up to 7,500 South

68 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

A PEP store in
1973, 1986 and
2015. Much of
its strategy has
remained the
same: no-frills
shops crowded
with merchandise,
easy-to-spot price
tags and the same
three colorsblue,
yellow and white.

African rand (roughly $470).


The business has basically been
built on one slogan: Low prices you
can trust. Just very, very low everyday prices, says Wiese (whose name,
fittingly, is pronounced VEE-sa, like
the credit card). I suppose we could
be described as the Wal-Mart of Africa. Underscoring the cost-conscious philosophy, the 74-year-old is telling me this at
his company headquarters, in an industrial area that
abuts a composter and Adult World, which sells what
you think it does. His offices, like his stores, are decidedly spare: drab beige enlivened only by some hotel-quality art (a portrait of an elephant herd hangs
outside the door of the conference room he uses as an
office). People have very limited budgets, continues Wiese, clad in a capitalists power uniformblue
suit, blue shirtthe very picture of the lily-white ex-

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AFRICAS RICHEST
SOUTH AFRICAS CHRISTO WIESE IS THE CONTINENTS FOURTH-RICHEST MAN. HERE ARE THE OTHERS AT THE TOP.

Mike Adenuga

$15.4 billion
Nigeria
Falling oil prices have
decimated Nigerias
economy and sent its
stock market down
some 20% over the
last 12 months. With
his fortune almost
entirely in public companies, Dangote has
gotten off lightly. Hes
only recently invested
in the oil industry by
building a renery.
The bulk of his wealth
is in our, sugar and
cement.

$10 billion
Nigeria
His telecom company,
Globacom, is adding
subscribers at a fast
clip (up more than
10% since December
2014). Glo, as its
known to its customers across Nigeria,
Benin and Ghana, now
counts more than 30
million subscribers. He
also has a major real
estate business.

Nicky
Oppenheimer
& family
$6.6 billion
South Africa
De Beers had a terrible 2015. Its revenue
fell by over a third to
$4.7 billion, the result
of a glut in diamonds
on the world market
and weak demand
for the gems. It didnt
matter much to
Oppenheimer.
Grandson of De
Beers founder Ernest,
Nicky sold off the
nal portion of his De
Beers stake to Anglo
American in 2012 for
$5.1 billion in cash.

ecutive that still controls most of South African business. They have to get extremely good value for their
money.
His hunchthat value trumps everythingled him
to create the largest retail business in Africa. Publicly traded Shoprite does revenue of $9.9 billion a year,
while PEPs parent company, Steinhoff, brings in
$11.8 billion (some of it from selling cellphones and
home furnishings). Combined, they net almost $2 billion in annual profits, operate more than 9,000 stores
in 30 countries and employ over 200,000 people. No
other African retailer comes close to rivaling their
breadth and depth, and Wiese controls both.
Those stakes are largely what makes Wiese one of
the planets richest people, with a $5.8 billion fortune.
More than 60% of his wealth is in Shoprite and Steinhoff, while another 30% or so comes from his shares of
Brait, an investment vehicle Wiese uses to buy other
companies, many of them outside South Africa. His
stock in Tradehold, a real estate rm, accounts for
much of the remaining 10%.
But if Wiese is to continue his expansion he must
move outside of his African comfort zone. The con70 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

Johann Rupert
& family
$5.3 billion
South Africa
Richemont, Ruperts
global luxury goods
company, contains
a gleaming collection of brands:
Cartier, Van Cleef &
Arpels and Montblanc,
among many others.
Glitz hasnt been
in demand lately.
Richemonts sales
through December
2015 were up just 1%
from a year earlier to
$9.6 billion.

Nassef Sawiris
$3.7 billion
Egypt
A more optimistic
outlook on Egypt is
good news for Sawiris,
whose construction
and hotel business,
Orascom Construction
Industries, is one of
the countrys biggest
public rms. It is busily
building more hotels
in Egypt and other
parts of the Middle
East, while improved
occupancy rates at
existing lodging has
lifted companywide
revenue through September 2015 by 33%
to $250 million.

Issad Rebrab
& family
$3.1 billion
Algeria
Like Nigeria, Algeria
has been hit hard
by the collapse in
oil prices (the two
are, respectively, the
continents number
one and number three
producers). Lucky
Rebrab has escaped
mostly scot-free: His
privately held Cevital
is widely diversied
(car rentals, logistics,
food processing).

tinent isnt booming the way it once was. Economic growth across Africa has slid from close to 7% in
2007 to about 4% in 2014, the last year for which data
are available. In coming years it isnt likely to much
surpass that figure. South Africa, still Wieses most
important market, is emblematic of the larger trend
stuck at sub-2% growth for the foreseeable future.
The slowdown gravely threatens Wieses ambitions.
He can shut his eyes and picture his empire twice as
big as it is today, but for it to grow that large, he must
look beyond Africa.
And hes already started. PEP is expanding rapidly in Europe, while Wiese is snapping up all sorts of
companies through Brait, including majority stakes
in British discount retailer (sound familiar?) New
Look for $1.2 billion last June and Richard Bransons
fitness center chain, Virgin Active, for $1 billion a
month later. Put broadly, Wiese is a little Sam Walton, in terms of his focus, and a little Warren Buffett,
in terms of amalgamating a portfolio. As a matter of
fact, hes beaten Buffett handily lately. His holding
company, Brait, has trounced Berkshire Hathaway in
total returns over three years (160% versus 31%), five

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Aliko Dangote

years (230% to 51%) and ten years


(314% to 121%).
Christo has been a massive risk
taker his whole life, says Syd Vianello, a retail analyst in Johannesburg, who has observed Wiese
over many decades. Africa is not a
place for sissies. Youve got to have
nerves of steel. In Africa they see
him as a genius.
THE BREATHTAKING VIEWS of
Cape Town, where land and sea
dramatically converge to produce
vistas of green mountains towering above deep blue water, can be
quickly forgotten on a nine-hour
drive north to the dry, hot savanna city of Upington, an unsightly
provincial town alongside the Orange River, close to the Kalahari
Desert. Upington does possess one
unique site: a statue of a donkey,
a rare tribute to the quintessential beast of burden. It is not undeserved. Starting in the 1880s, farmers, employing donkeys to pump
water, tamed this rough part of the
country with an almost puritanical
determination.
Wieses father was one of those
men. He owned a sheep and cattle farm, as well as a car dealership
in town. People in Upington were
hardworking, very neat, very orderlydisciplined, says Wiese. People who were not neat always stood
out like a sore thumb. For college,
Wiese attended Stellenbosch University, one of South Africas better
schools, situated in a sleepy area
awash in wine and vineyards. He
studied law and became head student of his residence hall and an
active member of a progressive student organization.
After graduating in 1967, he decided hed rather return home
and join the small retail business owned by his cousins husband than become an attorney. The
company had around ten discount
stores near Upington, which were
called PEP. With Wiese on board

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and helping guide expansion, sales


went from 4 million rand in 1970 to
29 million rand (around $100 million
today) four years later. Fast growth,
but Wiese lost interest after a moment
of self-discovery.
I had worked out for myself that
Im not reallyhe trails off, as if about to utter a
dirty worda number-two man. There was another
concern, too. I started thinking about getting married, he says. And the way I lived in those days, I
was away from home 20 days a month. Thats no way
to build a marriage. So I thought if I go and practice
law, at least Ill be home much more.
While working as a barrister in criminal and commercial law in Cape Town, Wiese, restless still, made
a futile run for parliament in 1977 on the opposition
party ticket, partly inspired by his new father-in-law, a
controversial member of parliament expelled from the
ruling, pro-apartheid party for dissension. Wiese also
grew interested in something that has always attracted
the ambitious in South Africadiamonds. He found a
mine nearer his hometown, in Richtersveld. (The area
has a stark beauty, like a moon landscape. Very sparse
vegetation, very little rainfall.) He bought it for about
$20 million in todays currency and began mining and
trading diamonds.
Five years after purchasing it, in 1981, he sold it,
and looking for his next chapter, he turned to his
cousin and PEP, which by then had 450 locations, including a grocery business, Shoprite, it had added a
few years earlier. In taking a check (worth roughly
$100 million in current terms) for his successful, middling business, the cousin was set for life. Wiese, no
longer number two, pictured something much grander. Maybe I was more ambitious, he says, quietly,
eyebrows arched.
WHAT WIESE ENVISIONED was retail at its rawest,
and he understood how attractive it could be. In modest, unadorned storefronts, PEP sold only the simplest
kinds of clothes (underwear, schoolwear, very basic
stuff ). The choice between a white shirt and a blue
one was often the most complicated one in the store.
Shoprite did the same with groceries. All that mattered
to Wieses target marketpoor whites and a black population kept systematically impoverishedwas price.
In a perverse twist, apartheid ensured him a gigantic customer base of some 20 million nonwhites, who
made up more than 70% of the population. They were
incapable of climbing the ladder or earning more
moneyor shopping elsewhere. And the heavy economic sanctions against South Africa meant little
in the way of foreign competition. It was a perfect

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WALDO SWIEGERS/BLOOMBERG; DEAN HUTTON/BLOOMBERG; DEAN HUTTON/BLOOMBERG

With over 2,500


stores, Shoprite
dominates Africa;
Wieses empire
also includes South
Africas House
& Home and OK
Furniture brands.

market: massive and artificially


protected.
Wiese saw the opportunity
faster than anybody else, says retail analyst Vianello. He targeted
the bottom end of the market, and
nobody could argue his business
had any element of waste. He cut
out all the extravagance and gave
people what they wanted at the
lowest possible price. The concept
proved popular enough for Wiese
to begin expanding aggressively,
sometimes opening as many as 100
new stores a year. While other retailers concentrated on stores in
large markets, he eagerly plunged
into rural and poorer areas. Hed
rather his customers spend their
money in his stores than spend it
traveling to them.
Wiese was maniacal about
costs, a business necessity in lowmargin retailing and perfectly fitting with his personalitya billionaire who keeps spare change
neatly stashed in a tiny bottle inside his Lexus SUV. Christo is
stingy, says James Whitey Basson, Wieses right-hand man at
Shoprite since day one and an old
buddy from Stellenbosch University. Hell give me the nicest bottle of champagne as a present, and
Ill open it up, and Ill see he forgot to take out the message: Its a
bottle from Lord So-and-So. Hes a
regifter.
To guard against corporate expenses, PEP manufactured many
of its clothes in 11 factories; one
was situated next to the companys modest offices in Parow Industria. Most important, from almost the start PEP relied on a
central distribution system with
ware houses to store goods, a total
departure from how most South
African retailers operated (with
many deliveries from many suppliers to each shop). That was a
no-brainer, Basson says. Getting
one truckload to a store is substantially cheaper than getting 30

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trucks to wait outside the store and offload 30 different times.


In 1986 Wiese spun off Shoprite and PEP into separate public companies while maintaining control of
both. Good timing. Four years later Nelson Mandela
was freed after spending almost three decades in prison. Apartheid was ending. South African companies
were no longer pariahs, and Wiese began to expand
elsewhere in Africa. A year after Mandela ascended to
the presidency in 1994, Shoprite opened its rst store
in central Africa, in Zambia, followed by Mozambique,
Swaziland, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Uganda. PEP had
a similar trajectory. Their stores simple model made
them easily exportable.
Wiese and Basson sat down and took a view that
they could conquer Africa, and they went out and conquered Africa, says Vianello. Shoprites size ($2 billion in 1996 sales with about $120 million in cash ow
and little debt) allowed it to move more quickly than
local rivals. How long does it take to clear a container
in Angola or Nigeria? What bribes do you have to pay
to get supplies in? Who on earth would nance them
to put up stores? They had to build their own stores
themselves. No one else would. (Wiese insists he has
spent not one rand on bribery.)
Other growth came through acquisitions. By the

CHRISTO IS A TERRIFIC
CORPORATE DEAL THINKER.
HE ALWAYS MAKES ME
THINK: WHAT WOULD THE
ALTERNATIVE BE?
1990s he had already made six purchases to expand
both Shoprite and PEP, pushing PEPs operations as
far as Britain and its sales to more than $2 billion. In
1997 he bought OK Bazaars (and its nearly 300 grocery and furniture stores) from South African Breweries for just one rand. The catch? OK Bazaars was
losing around $40 million annually, which was just
about how much Shoprite was booking in annual
profits. It could be kept on life support for just
so long.
We bet the farm, says Wiese. He reached for a familiar page from the playbook: cutting frills, lowering overhead, including renegotiating several onerous
leases. As it turns out, OK Bazaars had good bones and
had simply been mismanaged. Christo is a fantastic
corporate deal thinker, says Basson. He always makes
me think: What would the alternative be if I didnt
make a deal? What happens if the opposition buys the
company?
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WIESE DIDNT REALLY DEVELOP a profile outside of


Africa until recently, and to his annoyance, his arrival was trumpeted not by a cunning deal but by something more ignoble. It came after U.K. customs officials detained him at London City Airport in 2009
with two suitcases filled with nearly $1 million in
cash. They seized it, suspecting illicit origins. The
British and South African press merrily picked up on
the incidentapparently suspecting Wiese had been
nabbed for money launderingand were further emboldened by Wieses stubbornness in fighting for the
funds return and his insistence that the amount was
insignificant.(The Daily Mails gleeful headline:
Its Just Peanuts to Me.) The government ended
up returning the moneyinterest attachedbut the
damage was done. He still wont talk publicly about
the incident, and until recently, it was pretty much
the extent of his reputation in the West.
Thats now beginning to change, and much of his
activity is still in Britain. When his holding company,
Brait, first showed an interest in stretching beyond
South Africa in 2012, it invested in British supermarket business Iceland Foods and added to its position
in November 2015, when it paid about $275 million
to increase its position from 19% to 57%. Two more
deals came last year: the stakes purchased in discount retailer New Look and gym chain Virgin Active.
A second Wiese company, Invicta, has put its capital into industrial companies: unsexy firms with predictable, recurring revenue streams, like Singaporebased Kian Ann Engineering, a distributor of heavy
machinery parts. And a third Wiese vehicle, Tradehold, watched the value of its U.K. property portfolio increase by about 50% to roughly $120 million in
February 2015 (the latest full-year results available),
driven substantially by new investments in the British real estate market, where it owns residential, industrial and office space.
PEP has charged into eastern Europe, too. After its
initial move into this part of the continent in 2005 (Poland mostly but also the Czech Republic and Slovakia),
PEP has proven its model successful there. Its eastern European stores do about $1,800 per square meter,
a 60% increase from 2012 and roughly double what a
comparable competitor might do. The region is now
11% of PEPs $2.9 billion in annual revenue (up from
5% in 2012).
As PEP broadens its store expansion into Britain it
will likely run up against the most entrenched competition, including venerable discount retailer Primark. Considering this, Wiese blithely expresses a
malapropism: Theres the old American saying that
only three things are certain: death, taxes and competition. You cant shy away from competition. Youve

just got to go meet them. And besides, Primark tries to be fashionable, while PEP proudly does not.
We dont have fashion. You cant
come into our stores and expect a
wide selection of colors and pattern, says Steinhoff CEO Markus
Jooste. Our stuff is for people
who have to have it, not want to
have it. It offers value to the bottom-end customer and gives them
some dignity in what they wear.
Last December expansionminded Steinhoff began trading
on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
in addition to its long-standing
listing in Johannesburg. But not
before Wiese got slapped with a
reminder that his international
ambitions wouldnt proceed without a false step. A few days before
its Frankfurt debut German tax
authorities raided local Steinhoff
offices as part of an investigation
into its accounting. Steinhoff dismisses the investigation as baseless, but it certainly spooked the
companys investors. The stock
dropped about 15% in a month
wiping away almost $600 million
from Wieses personal fortune.
Having long parried advances
from those interested in buying his
companiesincluding a visit by
Wal-Mart heir and then chairman
Rob Walton several years ago
Wiese sees himself rmly in command of his empire for the foreseeable future. Ahead, theres one obvious nal frontier for Africas retail pioneer: America. Weve been
hesitant to plunge into the retail
industry there. What can we teach
them? he says. But were looking
at getting involved thereone or
two opportunities.
In a decade Im hoping youll
find the business has grown,
hopefully at the same pace as the
previous decade. That will require
a lot of thinking, a lot of commitment and a lot of energyand Im
hoping that youll find me right
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HUSSAIN SAJWANI

THE
DONALD
OF
DUBAI
HUSSAIN SAJWANI HAS
TRANSFORMED THE DESERT
SKYLINE WITH LUXURY
APARTMENTS AND LAVISH
MANSIONS USING OUTRAGEOUS
MARKETING STRATEGIES (FREE
LAMBORGHINI, ANYONE?). HES
WEATHERED THE 2008 CRASH
AND HIS BUSINESS PARTNER
DONALD TRUMPS POLITICSSO
WHAT WILL HE DO IF OIL PRICES
CONTINUE TO PLUMMET?
BY KERRY A. DOLAN AND ZINA MOUKHEIBER

WHEN DONALD TRUMP called last December for banning Muslims from entering the
United States, Hussain Sajwani knew he
had to sit tight. The Dubai real estate tycoon
was overseeing a project grandiose even by
Dubais extravagant standards. (This is, after
all, the emirate that is home to a massive articial island in the shape of a palm tree, an
indoor skiing mountain and the worlds tallest tower, the Burj Khalifa.) Set on 964 acres,
Sajwanis new Akoya community, about a
15-minute drive from the heart of Dubai, will
feature lavish villas, mansions, apartments
and its own retail center. The centerpiece of
the gated property is a golf course bearing
the Trump namea name long associated
with success in the Arab world.
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Skyscrapers the limit:


Sajwani parlayed
a modest catering
business in Abu Dhabi
into a $2 billion luxury
real estate empire in
Dubai and other cities.

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HUSSAIN SAJWANI

We made a deal with Trump as an organization; they


know how to run golf courses, shrugs Sajwani. We stay
away from politics.
Sticking to business has been good for the 63-year-old
Sajwani. His Damac Properties pulled in revenues of
$2.3 billion in 2015, with net margins of more than 50%.
The company has developed some 15,500 apartments since
it was launched in 2002 and has another 40,000 units it
plans to build and sell, in the United Arab Emirates and as
far away as London. Its stellar results have landed Damacs founder and chairman on FORBES list of the Worlds
Billionaires for the rst time this year. His 72% stake in
the company (which listed its shares on the Dubai Financial Market in January 2015), along with other investments,
gives him a net worth of $3.2 billion.
Its been a combination of luck and vision, says Sajwani. Someone would open the door, and I would run and
grab the opportunity.
Sajwani spotted plenty of opportunity back in 2001
when the Dubai government decided to allow foreigners
to own property. He immediately focused on selling luxury
real estate and guring out what it took to stand out when
marketing it. First: a free car! For the past decade Damac
has offered a complimentary Lamborghini or BMW to
apartment buyers during the month of January each year
the annual Dubai Shopping Festival. (Damac wont say how
many free cars it has given away.) Other times the company
has thrown in some Jet Skis with a purchase, and last year

Luxe deluxe:
Sajwani has
cobranded some
of his Dubai
real estate
developments,
including a
partnership with
Bugatti. (Note the
Veyron parked in
the living room.)

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for a brief period buyers of mansions and villas got a free


studio apartment as well. To lure potential Chinese buyers,
Damac began a two-month promotion last December during which it offered plane tickets, a hotel stay and a visa
essentially a free holiday to Dubaito prospective residents
who reserved a unit.
Luxury brands, including Versace, Fendi and Bugatti,
have entered cobranding deals with Damac, raising the appeal for its brand-obsessed clientele. Bugatti-branded villas planned for the Akoya Oxygen Damac developmenta
second community on 1,260 acres that will feature another Trump International golf courseinclude a space next
to the glass-walled living room where owners can park and
admire their Bugatti sports car.
But Trumps comments about Muslims did have some
ripple effects. According to Reuters, three days after his
remarks, Damac Properties removed the Trump name
from a stone wall in front of the Akoya project and also replaced images of the New York billionaire and his daughter Ivanka on a billboard nearby; three days later Trump
International Golf Club was restored to the wall. But
a spokesman for Damac told FORBES that the sign was
taken down just to be cleaned. For what its worth, the
pictures of Trump and his daughter were replaced on the
billboard with an enormous photo of Marlon Brando as
Vito Corleone in The Godfather.
Citizen Trump aside, its not the best of times to be selling high-end real estate in Dubai. Low oil prices and weak-

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HUSSAIN SAJWANI

make his better-known


partner proud.

Homes away from


er currencies have been a drag. The prohome: Sajwani
motion for Chinese customers followed
has expanded his
empire beyond
a drop in the value of the Russian ruble
the United Arab
and the euro against the U.S. dollar, which Emirates to
include properties
weeded out some customers from those
in Beirut (top
regions. Damac Properties admitted in its photos) and
London (bottom),
2015 earnings announcement, released
both cobranded
in early February, that its working in a
with Versace.
challenging economic environment.
Sanyalak Manibhandu, an Abu Dhabi-based analyst at
NBAD Securities, says property prices in Dubai have softened about 15% since early 2015.
To combat this, Damac has guaranteed buyers a 3%
annual return on down payments and advance payments (twice what xed deposits are currently paying,
it noted). And it will now guarantee a propertys value
for two years, promising to pay the difference if a units
price declines between delivery and the end of 2019. Sajwani spins the situationthe current environment creates opportunities for well-capitalized and experienced
companies like ourselvesin a manner that would

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HUSSAIN SAJWANI grew


up in Dubai in a middleclass family focused on
selling. His father was a
trader with a shop at the
local souk, selling watches, Parker pens, shirts
and goods imported from
China. Sajwani would go
to the shop after school
most afternoons. His
mother went door-todoor selling products to
the women in the neighborhood. Growing up, the dinnertime conversation often
revolved around business, he recalls.
Because Sajwani showed promise in school, he received
a government scholarship in 1978 to study in the U.S.making him one of the rst wave of students sent to America by
the government. After studying English in Atlanta for a few
months, he got a degree in industrial engineering and economics from the University of Washington in Seattle. Early
on Sajwani showed a willingness to take risks. While in
college he sold time-share apartments in the United Arab
Emirates on the side.
After graduating early in 1981, Sajwani landed a job
in the nance department at Abu Dhabi Gas Industries,
where he worked on contracts. There he saw just how
much money could be made selling services and gured
he could do better running his own outt. Two years later
he resigned and started a catering business in Abu Dhabi,
using his earnings from the time-share sales as startup
capital.
The catering business ourished. Sajwani landed customers like American construction giant Bechtel and the
U.S. military. His company, still operating and now called
Global Logistics Services, supplied meals for American
armed forces in Kuwait, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar
and Bosnia. He recalls sending in ovens and other equipment to make pizzas, at one point serving 2,000 pies a day
from a tent in the desert.
Around 1996, with the catering business humming,
Sajwani started to develop small hotels in Dubai and purchased property in the emirates downtown. Following
the decision to allow foreigners to own property in Dubai,
he sold some of the property hed bought and used the
funds to buy land in a then undeveloped neighborhood
called the Marinaan area now packed with futuristic
glass skyscrapers.
Everyone was saying I was mad, Sajwani recalls, but
he knew that growth was coming. Expats from the U.K.,

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India and other Arab countries, and many other places,


were ocking to the U.A.E. as it became a hub for multinationals. Dubai not only has no income tax or capital gains
tax but its also very tolerant culturallywomen can wear
bikinis at the beach and theres plenty of nightlife.
In 2002 Sajwani formed Damac Properties to develop residential towers on the Marina land. His strategy was
to market the apartments before anything was builtselling off planand use the buyers down payments to
help fund construction. He timed it exactly right. The rst
tower, the 38-story Marina Terrace, sold out in less than six
weeks. Emaar, a real estate developer partly owned by the
government, essentially created the Marina by constructing
an articial canal; it also began building residential towers
in the district. With each new tower that Damac Properties
built, Sajwani helped burnish Dubais image as a glittering
new destination.
SAJWANIS PATH TO THE BILLIONAIRES LIST started the
day after Lehman Bros. led for bankruptcy in September
2008. Everyone said, Were far away. I said, Lets put together an action plan, he remembers. He had made down
payments on several parcels of real estate. He quickly called the sellers and asked to give the land back, kissing his down payments good-bye. Even with his efforts
to stem losses, Damac reportedly had to lay off hundreds
of employees amid a sharp downturn in Dubai real estate
prices. Several buyers sued Damac Properties as a result
of construction delays. A Dubai court ruled in favor of one
Canadian buyer and required Damac to pay him $710,000.
Damac also settled condentially with a German investor
who had agreed to buy 22 units in four buildings between
2007 and 2009. With a company of our size you are always going to have a few disputes. We try and settle these
amicably, but ultimately a few may end up in court, says a
spokesman for Damac.
Dubais reputation took a big hit over the next few years,
because there was so much speculation involved in property purchases and plenty of people lost money. Determined
to keep real estate speculation at a minimum, the government implemented new laws in 2008 and 2009 requiring
that deposits from buyers of off-plan properties be held in
escrow; buyers would be entitled to a refund if the developer didnt hand over the promised property within a certain
time frame.
By 2011, while other builders were still cautious from
the crisis, Sajwani began preparing for his next Dubai project, something far bigger than he had ever attempted. In
October 2012 he struck a deal with the government to buy
the land for what eventually became the Akoya. The purchase price for the land: $350 million, payable in installments. The rst residents have begun to move in, though
construction is expected to continue for four more years.
Though Sajwanis company projects an image of high-

end luxuryits motto is Live the luxe lifein reality


hes selling to anyone who can afford to buy: the aspirational middle class as well as the ultrawealthy. Prices for
a room in a Dubai hotel start at $120,000, while a sevenbedroom villa on a golf course goes for $10 million.
What sets Damac apart from its competition is its relentless and creative marketing. Sajwani has to compete with
two deeper-pocketed developers: Emaar, which created
the Burj Khalifa, and Nakheel, the developer of the palmshaped archipelago off Dubais coast. To create buzz for his
properties, Damac has saturated Dubai with billboards: 166
of them portray the glories of the luxury lifestyle. Their
marketing is fantastic, says Craig Salmons, managing director at Dubai real estate agent HMS Homes. Theyre a
smaller developer than Nakheel and Emaarthey have to
do things better.
Last year Damac put on 500 marketing events in 98 cities
in China, India, Africa and Europe. We
A ROOM IN A
watch the airlines,
DUBAI HOTEL
says Niall McLoughSTARTS AT
lin, an Irishman
$120,000,
whos been workWHILE A SEVENing with Damac for
BEDROOM
nearly a decade and
VILLA GOES FOR is senior vice president for marketing
$10 MILLION.
and communications.
Wherever Emirates
Air ies, we go.
Sajwani has also been investing in real estate abroad.
In 2010 he began work on a tower in Beirut with interiors designed by Versace, after four years of luring the Italian design house. Mr. Sajwani is passionate about Versace
and the Versace lifestyle, Versace CEO Gian Giacomo Ferraris says via e-mail. Hes a smart businessman who pursues luxury business standards and strongly believes in the
added value of the Versace brand.
In addition to the tower in Beirut, Sajwani has spearheaded projects in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan and London, the last also in a design partnership with Versace.
Damac owns a 20% stake in the developments outside
the U.A.E., while Sajwani personally owns the
remaining 80%.
Catering to buyers at a time of global volatility, Damac
Properties has seven pages of promotions on its website,
including options to pay 30% and own it and promises
of 7.5% returns on rentals and a U.A.E. residence
visa. That might be enough to keep a steady stream
of sales going.
For now Sajwani believes the bubble still has plenty of
room to expand. In mid-February Damac agreed to pay
about $330 million for 92 acres of land along part of the
Dubai Canal. The sky is calling. F
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EUROPE
$1.8 TRILLION

TOTAL WORTH:

BILLIONAIRES: 489

TOTAL WORTH:

USA
$2.4 TRILLION

BILLIONAIRES: 540

ASIA-PACIFIC
$1.6 TRILLION

TOTAL WORTH:

BILLIONAIRES: 590

MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA


TOTAL WORTH: $243 BILLION
BILLIONAIRES: 90

THE AMERICAS (INCLUDING CANADA)


TOTAL WORTH: $410 BILLION
BILLIONAIRES: 101

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ADDITIONAL REPORTING: FORBES AFRICA, FORBES CZECH
REPUBLIC, FORBES JAPAN, FORBES KAZAKHSTAN, FORBES POLAND,
FORBES ROMANIA, SUSAN ADAMS, YURI AKSYONOV, KURT BADENHAUSEN, KIM BODE, ERIN CARLYLE, NILGUN CAVDAR, KATHLEEN
CHAYKOWSKI, SHU-CHING JEAN CHEN, CHRIS ERB, DANIEL FISHER,

SEAN KILACHAND, ALEX KONRAD, ERNESTO LINARES MASCARO,


NICOLE LINDSAY, RYAN MAC, JAN MCCALLUM, JOANN MULLER,
JOHANNES MUSIAL, SUZANNE NAM, LAN ANH NGUYEN, MFONOBONG
NSEHE, CLARE OCONNOR, ROBERT OLSEN, PARMY OLSON, NATALIE
ROBEHMED, MATT SCHIFRIN, LUCINDA SCHMIDT, JAMES SIMMS, BRIAN
SOLOMON, NATALIE SPORTELLI, DEBORAH STEINBORN, YUELUN SUN,
GLENDA TOMA, TIM TREADGOLD, OZER TURAN
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
SPECIAL THANKS TO LW HOSPITALITY ADVISORS, ORBIS BY BUREAU
VAN DIJK, PRIVCO, REAL CAPITAL ANALYTICS AND DOZENS OF
OTHER EXPERTS WHO HELPED US WITH OUR REPORTING AND
VALUATIONS.

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WEALTH
ORIGIN

THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES

ALGERIA

24%

AUSTRALIA

ALGIERS

GDP: $142 BIL


POPULATION: 40 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 1
TOTAL NET WORTH:
$3.1 BIL

GDP: $1.2 TRIL


POPULATION: 24 MIL
BILLIONAIRES:
25 (2 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH:
$61.7 BIL
($7.3 BIL VS. 2015)

Issad Rebrab & family X


$3.1 BIL #549 FOOD

ANGOLA
GDP: $101 BIL
POPULATION: 25 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 1
TOTAL NET WORTH: $3 BIL
($300 MIL VS. 2015)

B IG G E ST G A I N E R
LUANDA

$3 BIL #569 INVESTMENTS

ARGENTINA

Carlos & Alejandro


Bulgheroni T

LA RIOJA

MENDOZA

$4.5 BIL #324 OIL & GAS


BUENOS
AIRES
4

Eduardo Eurnekian S
$2.2 BIL #810 AIRPORTS,
INVESTMENTS

Gregorio Perez Companc T

INHERITED & GROWING


INHERITED
SELF-MADE

TOP SECTORS
7

P LACE

REAL ESTATE

JOHN GANDEL

4
MANUFACTURING

Gandel owns half of the southern


hemispheres largest shopping mall,
Chadstone, with more than 500 stores
in eastern Melbourne. A huge Legoland Discovery Center is due to open
at Chaddy, as the mall is known,
this year. He also has a big stake in
listed property trust Vicinity Centres,
which owns the other half of Chadstone, plus 98 other malls and outlets.

3
FINANCE & INVEST
2
METALS & MINING
2
TECHNOLOGY

Harry
Triguboff

Isabel dos Santos T

GDP: $583.5 BIL


POPULATION: 43 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 4 (1 VS.
2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $9.2
BIL ($2 BIL VS. 2015)

76%

Sydneys biggest
apartment builder,
High-Rise Harry,
keeps scaling new
heights. His fortune climbed $1.9
billion in the past
year, thanks to the
nations real estate
boom. His company,
Meriton, reportedly attracted interest
from Chinese buyers, but Triguboff
didnt sell. Meriton instead continued to build, starting construction on
more than 4,400
apartments last
year. In total Harry
has put up more
than 65,000 units
since 1963.

NEUQUN

$1.5 BIL #1198 OIL & GAS

EXPATRIATES
4

Alberto Roemmers T

PERTH
3

$1 BIL #1694 PHARMACEUTICALS

PLACE

ALEJANDRO
BULGHERONI
From oil tycoon to wine connoisseur, the elder Bulgheroni
brother is bringing a touch of Tuscany to Uruguay. His Bodega Garzn vineyard, just miles from the Atlantic Ocean and a short drive
from Punta del Este, boasts an eco-friendly winery partially powered by wind and solar. The sustainably farmed vineyard produces a variety of reds and whites, and will officially
open to the public in
March 2016. Alejandro, who also owns
vineyards in Bordeaux and California, and Carlos derive their fortunes
from private energy
company Bridas.

Gina Rinehart T

David Teoh 

Scott Farquhar S

$8.8 BIL #127 MINING

$2.1 BIL #854


TELECOM

$1.4 BIL #1275 SOFTWARE

Fiona Geminder T

$1.4 BIL #1275 RETAIL

Harry Triguboff S
$7.3 BIL #159 PROPERTY

Frank Lowy S
$5.1 BIL #262 SHOPPING MALLS

Anthony Pratt X
$3.6 BIL #435 MANUFACTURING

James Packer T
$3.5 BIL #453 CASINOS

John Gandel T
$3.3 BIL #495 SHOPPING MALLS

Lindsay Fox S
$2.9 BIL #595 LOGISTICS,
REAL ESTATE

Vivek Chaand Sehgal T


$2.1 BIL #854 AUTO PARTS

$1.9 BIL #959 PACKAGING

David Hains T
$1.9 BIL #959 FINANCE

Michael Hintze T
$1.8 BIL #1011 INVESTMENT

Kerr Neilson T
$1.8 BIL #1011 INVESTMENT

Stanley Perron S
$1.6 BIL #1121 PROPERTY, RETAIL

Mike Cannon-Brookes S
$1.4 BIL #1275 BUSINESS
SOFTWARE

Jack Cowin S
$1.4 BIL #1275 FAST FOOD

Gerry Harvey S
Bob Ell S
$1.3 BIL #1367 PROPERTY

Andrew Forrest T
$1.3 BIL #1367 MINING

Heloise Waislitz T
$1.3 BIL #1367 PACKAGING

Maurice Alter X
$1.2 BIL #1476 REAL ESTATE

Alan Rydge X
$1.2 BIL #1476 ENTERTAINMENT

Lang Walker X
$1.1 BIL #1577 PROPERTY

Huang Bingwen & family X


$1 BIL #1694 CIGARETTE
PACKAGING

WEALTH STATUS: UP S DOWN TUNCHANGED X NEW + RETURNEE 3 DIVIDED FORTUNE 


WINE-GROWING REGION

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TECH CENTER

PLAYGROUND

OIL & GAS FIELDS AND DEPOSITS

FINANCIAL CENTER

HARRY TRIGUBOFF: IAN WALDIE/BLOOMBERG; SCOTT FARQUHAR: TREVOR COLLENS/ALAMY;


JAMES PACKER: JOE SUTTER/NEWSCOM

CENTRAL WESTERN

AUSTRIA

NE WS MA KE R

NEWCO MER

SCOTT
FARQUHAR

David Teoh
His TPG Telecom is
a leading Internet
service provider
in Australia thanks
to a series of
smart acquisitions
that have helped
push the companys stock price up
nearly 600% over
the past ve years.
In September the
immigrant bought
rival iiNet for more
than $1 billion in
cash and stock.

The fortunes of Australias youngest billionaire (hes 36) and


his university pal Mike CannonBrookes (whos a month older)
jumped when their projectmanagement software outt,
Atlassian, whose customers include Twitter and NASA, went
public on the NYSE in December. The stock opened 32% above
the IPO price but soon fell back
to earth. It was still enough to
make each of the co-CEOs, who
launched the company in 2002
with $10,000 in credit card debt,
$300 million richer than they
were a year ago.

HAYMAN ISLAND
HAMILTON ISLAND

RICHARD BRANSONS
MAKEPEACE ISLAND

RI CH E ST

Dietrich
Mateschitz

GDP: $373.8 BIL


POPULATION: 9 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 6 (1 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $29 BIL
($600 MILLION VS. 2015)

After almost 30 years Red


Bull still has plenty of pep.
Sales of the energy drink,
which Mateschitz started
peddling in 1987, soared
16% to $6.4 billion, as the
rm sold a record 5.9 billion cansalmost enough
to give a caffeine jolt (if
not a pair of wings) to
every human on the planet. His fortune
rose $2.4 billion, making him
Austrias biggest
gainer over the
past year.

Dietrich Mateschitz
$13.2 BIL #64 RED BULL

Johann Graf
$8 BIL #144 GAMBLING

Heidi Horten
$2.7 BIL #638 RETAIL
B IG G E ST LOS E R

Kerr
Neilson
Divorces are
rarely good for
the bottom line.
The fortune of
one of Australias best-known
value investors is
down $1.4 billion
thanks in large
part to his split
with former wife
Judith. Shares of
his money manager, Platinum
Asset Management, which he
cofounded in
1994 and runs as
chief executive,
also dipped.

SURFERS
PARADISE
BYRON BAY
HUNTER
VALLEY

Helmut Sohmen
$2.3 BIL #771 SHIPPING

Wolfgang Leitner
$1.5 BIL #1198 ENGINEERING

Reinold Geiger
$1.3 BIL #1367 BEAUTY PRODUCTS

LOWER
AUSTRIA

EXPATRIATES
2
FUSCHL AM SEE

VIENNA
2
BURGENLAND

ARLBERG

ZRS

CARINTHIA

GRAZ

WOERTHERSEE

BELGIUM

Albert Frere X
$4.9 BIL #286 INVESTMENTS

Patokh Chodiev T

GDP: $453.5 BIL


POPULATION: 11 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 3
TOTAL NET WORTH: $7.5
BIL ($700 MIL VS. 2015)

$1.4 BIL #1275 MINING, METALS

Coucke Marc T
$1.2 BIL #1476 PHARMACEUTICALS

SYDNEY
10
MERELBEKE

BAROSSA

BIG RIVERS

CHARLEROI

EXPATRIATES
1

MELBOURNE
7

HOW TO READ THE MAPS


TAMAR VALLEY

1ST

2ND

3RD

4TH

5TH

Circles correspond to the cities in each country


where the most billionaires live, with the number
of residents listed below each city. Individual
names are colored according to where they live.

NEWSMA KER

JAMES PACKER
Even billionaires get starstruck: In January
the media and gaming heir proposed to pop
star MARIAH CAREY with a 35-carat diamond
ring. The engagement caps a busy 12 months
for Packer, who sold his Sydney home in August for whats said to be a record-breaking
$50 million and left the board of his Crown
Resorts in December.

Harry Triguboff S
Total worth

$7.3 BIL #159 PROPERTY

Source of wealth
Rank
Wealth status compared with 2015
UP S DOWN TUNCHANGED X NEW + RETURNEE 3DIVIDED FORTUNE 

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THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES

BRAZIL

B IG G E ST LOS E R

MARINHO BROTHERS
Weaker ad sales, lower prots and a drop in
Brazils currency knocked 48% off the fortune
of each of the three Marinho brothers,
owners of Brazilian media group Globo. A
bright spot: the December opening of the
Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro, an
art and science museum supported by the
Marinho family and designed by Spanish
architect Santiago Calatrava.

N E WS M A K E R

Andre Esteves

GDP: $1.8 TRIL


POPULATION: 204 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 31 (23 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $135.1 BIL
($46 BIL VS. 2015)

As part of a massive corruption probe into state-owned oil


rm Petrobras, banking wunderkind Esteves was arrested
in November 2015 and spent nearly four weeks behind bars.
He allegedly conspired with a legislator to buy a witness
silence. While in jail he resigned as CEO of BTG Pactual, the
investment rm he founded, and he is now under house
arrest. His lawyers have denied wrongdoing.

WEALTH
ORIGIN
13%
45%

42%

INHERITED & GROWING


INHERITED
SELF-MADE

MANAUS

TOP SECTORS

FORTALEZA

7
FINANCE & INVEST
6
FOOD & BEVERAGE
5
DIVERSIFIED
3
CONSTRUCTION & ENGR
3
FASHION & RETAIL

COMANDATUBA
ISLAND, BAHIA

3
MEDIA & ENTERTAIN

EXPATRIATES
2

TRANCOSO
SO PAULO
15

RICHEST

Jorge Paulo
Lemann
Lemann enters the
worlds top 20 richest for the rst time
ever with a fortune of
$27.8 billion. His 3G
Capital and Berkshire
Hathaway bought
Heinz in 2013 and
merged it with publicly traded Kraft in
July 2015. In November Anheuser-Busch
InBev, where Lemann
is a controlling shareholder, proposed a
megamerger with
SABMiller. The deal
faces antitrust issues
around the world.

RIO DE JANEIRO
9

SO JOS
DOS PINHAIS
PORTO ALEGRE

Moll Filhos stake in Rede DOr, Brazils


largest hospital and lab operator,
jumped in value in 2015. The Carlyle
Group spent a reported $600 million
in April for a stake, and Andre Esteves
troubled investment bank, BTG
Pactual, sold a stake to Singapores
sovereign fund, GIC, in December. The
companys valuation rose to nearly
$5 billion, helping lift Moll Filhos net
worth 67% to $3 billion, the biggest
percentage gain in Brazil.

$1.9 BIL #959 CONSTRUCTION

Joao Moreira Salles S

Regina de Camargo Pires


Oliveira Dias T

$2.8 BIL #612 BANKING, MINERALS

Jorge Paulo Lemann S


$27.8 BIL #19 BEER
NE WS MA KE R

CAMARGO SISTERS
The three sisters who inherited
conglomerate Camargo Correa
stand to prot from the 2016
Olympics in Rio. The company
is part of a consortium building
the Trans Olympic expressway,
which will connect northern
and western Rio. Camargo
Correas construction arm was
accused of money laundering
as part of a bribery scheme
involving state-controlled oil
giant Petrobras. In August it
admitted to anticompetitive
practices and agreed to pay
back $200 million to customers.

Joseph Safra T
$17.2 BIL #42 BANKING

Marcel Herrmann Telles X


$13.0 BIL #68 BEER

Carlos Alberto Sicupira X


$11.3 BIL #87 BEER

Eduardo Saverin S
$6.2 BIL #188 FACEBOOK

Joao Roberto Marinho T

Pedro Moreira Salles S


$2.8 BIL #612 BANKING, MINERALS

Walther Moreira Salles Jr. S


$2.8 BIL #612 BANKING, MINERALS

Walter Faria T
$2.6 BIL #666 BEER

Jose Luis Cutrale X


$2.5 BIL #688 ORANGE JUICE

Francisco Ivens de Sa
Dias Branco T
$2.1 BIL #854 FOOD
PRODUCTION

PLAYGROUND

$1.9 BIL #959 CONSTRUCTION

Carlos Sanchez T
$1.7 BIL #1067 GENERIC DRUGS

Julio Bozano X
$1.6 BIL #1121 BANKING

Andre Esteves T
$1.6 BIL #1121 BANKING

Alexandre Grendene
Bartelle T
$1.6 BIL #1121 SHOES

Miguel Krigsner T
$1.6 BIL #1121 COSMETICS

Rossana Camargo de
Arruda Botelho T

Ermirio Pereira de Moraes T

$4.3 BIL #351 MEDIA

$1.9 BIL #959 CONSTRUCTION

Roberto Irineu Marinho T

Edson de Godoy Bueno T

Maria Helena Moraes


Scripilliti T

$4.3 BIL #351 MEDIA

Jose Roberto Marinho T

$4.3 BIL #351 MEDIA

Abilio dos Santos Diniz T


$3.4 BIL #477 RETAIL

OIL & GAS FIELDS AND DEPOSITS

$1.1 BIL #1577 DIVERSIFIED

$1.9 BIL #959 HOSPITALS,


HEALTH CARE

$1.1 BIL #1577 DIVERSIFIED

Aloysio de Andrade Faria T

$1.1 BIL #1577 INVESTMENTS

$1.9 BIL #959 BANKING

Alfredo Egydio
Arruda Villela Filho T

Lirio Parisotto T

$1 BIL #1694 BANKING

WEALTH STATUS: UP S DOWN TUNCHANGED X NEW + RETURNEE 3 DIVIDED FORTUNE 


TECH CENTER

Renata de Camargo
Nascimento T

$2.8 BIL #612 BANKING, MINERALS

$3 BIL #569 HOSPITALS

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Jorge Moll Filho

Fernando Roberto
Moreira Salles S

Jorge Moll Filho S

WINE-GROWING REGION

B IG G E ST G A I N E R

FINANCIAL CENTER

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3
HEALTH CARE

THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES

CANADA

N E WS M A K E R

Daryl Katz
The Edmonton native made his money
in drugstore chains, but his second
actrevitalizing his citys downtown
may be his ultimate legacy. His group
has invested nearly $2 billion in a 35acre complex that will include hotel,
condo and office towers, among other
things, and will be one of Canadas
largest mixed-use developments. An
18,500-seat arena, built by Katz but
owned by the city, is expected to open
this fall to house his NHL team, the
Edmonton Oilers.

GDP: $1.6 TRIL


POPULATION: 36 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 33 (6 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $112.4 BIL
($22.3 BIL VS. 2015)
TOP SECTORS

WEALTH
ORIGIN

7
FASHION & RETAIL
5
TECHNOLOGY

6%
18%

4
DIVERSIFIED

76%

4
FINANCE & INVEST

INHERITED & GROWING


INHERITED
SELF-MADE

3
FOOD & BEVERAGE

NEWSMAKER

GARRETT CAMP
The Uber cofounder and chairman is taking back control of
StumbleUpon, buying a majority stake in the content-discovery engine that he helped start
as a grad student at the University of Calgary. With
no venture capital
coming in since
2011, StumbleUpon has struggled to compete
in a social media
space dominated
by Facebook and
Twitter. The Alberta natives ride-hailing
giant doesnt have the same
problem: Uber is currently valued at over $60 billion after
three nancing rounds in the
past 12 months.

EDMONTON
SILICON VALLEY NORTH
CANADIAN ROCKIES

WHISTLER BLACKCOMB
STUART ISLAND

CALGARY
2

EXPATRIATES
5

VANCOUVER
3

Mark Scheinberg X

Jean Coutu T

Guy Laliberte T

$23.8 BIL #25 MEDIA

$4.1 BIL #369 ONLINE GAMBLING

$1.7 BIL #1067 PHARMACIES

$1.3 BIL #1367 CIRQUE DU SOLEIL

Galen Weston & family T

David Cheriton S

Gerald Schwartz X

Serge Godin X

$9.3 BIL #116 RETAIL

$3.3 BIL #495 GOOGLE

$1.7 BIL #1067 FINANCE

Garrett Camp S

Daryl Katz T

Peter Gilgan S

$1.2 BIL #1476 INFORMATION


TECHNOLOGY

$6.2 BIL #188 UBER

$3.2 BIL #527 PHARMACIES

$1.6 BIL #1121 HOME BUILDING

Hal Jackman S

James Irving T

Alain Bouchard S

Mitchell Goldhar T

$1.2 BIL #1476 INSURANCE,


INVESTMENTS

$5.4 BIL #240 DIVERSIFIED

$2.7 BIL #638 RETAIL

$1.6 BIL #1121 REAL ESTATE

Bernard (Barry) Sherman S

Robert Miller S

Brandt Louie T

$4.9 BIL #286 PHARMACEUTICALS

$2.7 BIL #638 ELECTRONICS


COMPONENTS

$1.5 BIL #1198 DRUGSTORE


CHAIN

Lawrence Stroll X

Frank Stronach X

$2.4 BIL #722 RETAIL

$1.4 BIL #1275 AUTO PARTS

Charles Bronfman X

Jacques DAmours X

$2.3 BIL #771 LIQUOR

$1.3 BIL #1367 RETAIL

Chip Wilson T

N. Murray Edwards T

$2.1 BIL #854 LULULEMON

$1.3 BIL #1367 OIL & GAS

Arthur Irving T
$4.7 BIL #308 OIL

Jim Pattison T
$4.5 BIL #324 DIVERSIFIED

Emanuele (Lino) Saputo T


$4.4 BIL #338 CHEESE

Joseph Tsai T
$4.2 BIL #358 E-COMMERCE

Stephen Jarislowsky T
$1.2 BIL #1476 MONEY
MANAGEMENT

Aldo Bensadoun T
$1.1 BIL #1577 SHOES

Ronald Joyce T
$1.1 BIL #1577 RESTAURANTS

V. Prem Watsa S
$1.1 BIL #1577 INSURANCE,
INVESTMENTS

Carlo Fidani X
$1.9 BIL #959 REAL ESTATE

WEALTH STATUS: UP S DOWN TUNCHANGED X NEW + RETURNEE 3 DIVIDED FORTUNE 


WINE-GROWING REGION

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TECH CENTER

PLAYGROUND

OIL & GAS FIELDS AND DEPOSITS

FINANCIAL CENTER

B IG G E ST G A I N E R

Bernard
Sherman
Sherman founded
generic-drug maker
Apotex as a barebones, two-person
operation in 1974;
today its pharmaceuticals have become
the go-to choice for
Canadians, lling
some 90 million prescriptions a year. The
companys arsenal
of over 300 generics
includes ibuprofen,
diazepam and oxycodone. His fortune
is up 26% in the last
12 months.

GUY LALIBERTE: GABE GINSBERG/GETTY IMAGES; GARRETT CAMP: JUSTIN


LANE/EEPA/NEWSCOM; CHIP WILSON: BEN NELMS/REUTERS; MUSKOKAL :
KAREN SPENCER / ALAMY; BERNARD SHERMAN: NORM BETTS/ BLOOMBERG

David Thomson & family T

CHILE
NE WS MA K E R

GUY LALIBERTE
The re-eating, stilt-walking accordionist and his group of street performers staged their rst Cirque
du Soleil show in 1984 in
Quebec. Hes sold 175
million tickets to his
spectacles, but is he
ready for a new act?
In a 2015 deal that
valued Cirque at a reported $1.5 billion, Lalibert sold a majority stake to a consortium that was led by U.S. private equity
rm TPG and also included Chinese conglomerate Fosun and a Canadian pension fund.

GDP: $240 BIL


POPULATION: 18 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 10 (2 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $29 BIL ($10.9 BIL VS. 2015)

Iris Fontbona & family T


$10.1 BIL #101 MINING

Horst Paulmann & family T


$3.7 BIL #421 RETAIL

Sebastian Pinera X
$2.5 BIL #688 INVESTMENTS

Bernardo Matte T
$2.3 BIL #771 PAPER

Eliodoro Matte T
$2.3 BIL #771 PAPER

Patricia Matte T
P LACE

$2.3 BIL #771 PAPER

Muskoka, Ontario

Alvaro Saieh Bendeck T

The popular vacation spot encompasses over 2,000 lakes and is a favorite of
celebrities and Bay Street tycoons alike,
counting model Cindy Crawford and
billionaire home builder Peter Gilgan
among its residents. The region has an
abundance of private islands and thick
groves of pine trees.

Julio Ponce T

$2.2 BIL #810 BANKING


$1.4 BIL #1275 FERTILIZER

Roberto Angelini Rossi T


$1.2 BIL #1476 FORESTRY,
MINING

Luis Enrique Yarur Rey T


$1 BIL #1694 BANKING

SANTIAGO
10

QUEBEC CITY
2
MOUNT TREMBLANT

PUCN

MONTREAL
7

SAINT JOHN
2

N E WS M A K E R
PUERTO MONTT

MUSKOKA

WESTMOUNT
AURORA
NORTH YORK

OAKVILLE

TORONTO
7

N E WSMAKER

CHIP WILSON
After a series of controversies, including his disparaging
comments about womens bodies and his attempt to unseat two board members, Lululemons founder stepped
away from his creation completely in early 2015. Four
months later the yoga-gear retailer led with the SEC,
indicating his interest in selling off the last of his shares.
He is now focused on Kit and Ace, a high-end casualwear retailer started by his wife and son that sells washable cashmere-like clothing thats made by combining
the expensive ber with synthetic material.

BANCA COMMERCIALE ITALIANA: JADER ALTO/ALAMY

MARKHAM

Luis Enrique
Yarur Rey
His retail and commercial
bank BCI bought Miamibased City National Bank of
Florida for $947 million in
October, marking the rst
time a Chilean bank has
purchased a U.S. bank.

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THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES

CHINA

B I G G E ST LOS E R

Li Hejun

GDP: $10.9 TRIL


POPULATION: 1.4 BIL
BILLIONAIRES: 251 (+38 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $593 BIL (+$28.3 BIL VS. 2015)
WEALTH
ORIGIN
0.8%
0.4%

TOP SECTORS
44
MANUFACTURING
41
TECHNOLOGY

98.8%

38
REAL ESTATE

INHERITED & GROWING


INHERITED
SELF-MADE

26
HEALTH CARE
21
DIVERSIFIED

Wang Jianlin S

Wang Chuanfu S

$28.7 BIL #18 REAL ESTATE

$4.4 BIL #338 BATTERIES, AUTOS

Jack Ma T

Wei Jianjun & family T

$20.5 BIL #33 ALIBABA

$4.3 BIL #351 AUTOMOBILES

Ma Huateng S

Wang Wei X

$16.6 BIL #46 INTERNET SERVICES

$4.2 BIL #358 PACKAGE


DELIVERY SERVICE

Robin Li T
$11.0 BIL #90 INTERNET SEARCH

Lei Jun T
$9.8 BIL #107 SMARTPHONES

He Xiangjian T

$3.9 BIL #392 APPAREL


$3.8 BIL #403 APPLIANCE
RETAILER

Wang Wenyin T
$7.2 BIL #163 MINING, COPPER
PRODUCTS

Liu Qiangdong T

URUMQI

Zhou Jianping T
Zhang Jindong T

$8.1 BIL #141 ONLINE GAMES

The ostentatious art collector set tongues wagging in


November with his $170 million purchase of Modiglianis Reclining Nudethe second-most-expensive
artwork ever sold at an auctionjust a year after a
photo of him drinking tea from his $36 million
Ming Dynasty porcelain cup created a furor
on the Internet. Lius fortune climbed $1.8
billion in the past year. He bought shares of
Hubei Biocause Pharmaceutical in January
in a nonpublic offering; the stock is worth
more than twice what he paid.

$4.1 BIL #369 AGRIBUSINESS

Hui Ka Yan S
William Ding S

LIU YIQIAN

Liu Yonghao & family T

$9.0 BIL #122 HOME APPLIANCES


$8.6 BIL #129 REAL ESTATE

B IG G E ST G A I N E R

Lis fortune plunged


$17.9 billion in the past
12 months to $3.2 billion.
Shares of his Hong Konglisted Hanergy Thin Film
Power Group had risen
1,345% in 24 months.
Trading was suspended
in May 2015 after Hanergys share price plunged
47% in one day. The solar
panel equipment maker
is under investigation by
Hong Kong regulators,
which havent specied
why. Li sold 5% of his Hanergy stake for 3 cents a
share in a private transaction in December, a
far cry from the stocks
$7 peak.

Frank Wang 
$3.6 BIL #435 DRONES

Liang Wengen T
$3.5 BIL #453 CONSTRUCTION
EQUIPMENT

Pan Zhengmin & family X


$3.5 BIL #453 ELECTRONICS

$6.3 BIL #184 E-COMMERCE

Xu Shihui & family 


$6.2 BIL #188 SNACKS,
BEVERAGES

Zong Qinghou T

NE WS MA KE R

$6.2 BIL #188 BEVERAGES

JIA YUETING

Zhang Zhidong S

The man behind the Netix of China is setting his sights on besting Tesla. Jia made his fortune with LeTV, an online video
service. He is reportedly backing startup Faraday Future,
which plans to build a $1 billion electric-car factory in
Nevada. Jia has inked a deal with Aston Martin to collaborate on an all-electric model of the Rapide S.

$5.9 BIL #205 INTERNET MEDIA

Lu Guanqiu S
$5.7 BIL #219 CONGLOMERATE

Jason Jiang 
$5.4 BIL #240 ADVERTISING

Xu Chuanhua & family 


$5.4 BIL #240 CHEMICALS

Chan Laiwa & family T


$5.2 BIL #258 REAL ESTATE

Liu Yongxing T
$5.1 BIL #262 AGRIBUSINESS

Guo Guangchang T
$5.0 BIL #270 CONGLOMERATE

Yang Huiyan X
$5.0 BIL #270 REAL ESTATE

Lu Zhiqiang T
$4.8 BIL #298 CONGLOMERATE

Jia Yueting S
$4.7 BIL #308 ONLINE VIDEO

Sun Guangxin S
$4.7 BIL #308 DIVERSIFIED

Tong Jinquan T
$4.4 BIL #338 REAL ESTATE
WEALTH STATUS: UP S DOWN TUNCHANGED X NEW + RETURNEE 3 DIVIDED FORTUNE 
WINE-GROWING REGION

90 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

TECH CENTER

PLAYGROUND

OIL & GAS FIELDS AND DEPOSITS

FINANCIAL CENTER

PLACE

Wang Wenxue S

Zheng Yuewen & family S

A February proposal from the Chinese government looks to halt


some of the countrys more cutting edge architecture, criticizing
oversized, xenocentric and weird designs. That means structures
like ZHANG XINS BULLET-TRAIN-SHAPED SKY SOHO in Shanghai,
created by Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid, might no longer get
such a warm reception as it did when it opened in 2014.

$3.5 BIL #453 REAL ESTATE

$2.4 BIL #722 INVESTMENTS

Zhang Shiping & family T

Huang Wei T

$3.5 BIL #453 ALUMINUM


PRODUCTS

$2.3 BIL #771 DIVERSIFIED

Pang Kang S
$3.4 BIL #477 SOY SAUCE MAKER

$2.3 BIL #771 ALUMINUM,


DIVERSIFIED

Qiu Guanghe & family T

Tse Ping & family S

$3.4 BIL #477 APPAREL RETAIL

$2.3 BIL #771 PHARMACEUTICALS

Sun Piaoyang S

Zhou Yahui & family S

$3.4 BIL #477 PHARMACEUTICALS

$2.3 BIL #771 ONLINE GAMES

N E WCO M E R

Cheng Wei
Cheng is cofounder of Didi Kuaidi, the
local car hailing service that is contributing to Uber losing $1 billion a year
in China. The eightyear Alibaba veteran
started Didi Dache
in 2012 with backing
from Internet giant
Tencent. It merged
with its Chinese rival
Kuaidi Dache in 2015
to fend off an attack
by the invading U.S.
giant. Didi racked
up 1.4 billion rides in
2015, a gure that
took Uber more than
ve years to reach
worldwide.

HULIN

JILIN
LIAOYANG

TONGHUA

ANSHAN
SHENYANG 2

BEIJING 50

YINGKOU
DANDONG

SANHE
LANGFANG
2

LONGKOU

WEIFANG

BAODING
2
SHIJIAZHUANG

ZHANGJIAGANG
RIZHAO 2
LINYI
LIANYUNGANG
TAIXING

JINAN

HEZE
ZHENGZHOU

HEFEI 3 NANJING
4
XINXIANG

XIAN SOFTWARE PARK

LANZHOU

DANYANG
WUJIANG

RUZHOU

CHENGDU
8

WUHAN
3

CHONGQING
3
KUNMING

SHANGHAI
29

NANTONG
CHANGSHU
JIANGYIN

SHAOXING
NINGBO 4
TAIZHOU
3

HANGZHOU
17 ZHUJI

QUZHOU

WENZHOU
2
NANPING

CHANGSHA
2
DONGGUAN

FOSHAN
4
ZHONGSHAN
2

Ma Jianrong & family S

Shen Guojun S

$3.3 BIL #495 TEXTILES,


APPAREL

$2.2 BIL #810 RETAIL

Qi Shi & family S

$2.2 BIL #810 ENTERTAINMENT

$3.3 BIL #495 FINANCIAL


INFORMATION

Zhang Guiping & family S

JINJIANG 3
XIAMEN 3

$2.1 BIL #854 COPPER, REAL


ESTATE

$3.3 BIL #495 SOLAR PANEL


MATERIALS

Ji Changqun 

Li Hejun T
$3.2 BIL #527 RENEWABLE
ENERGY

Cai Kui T
$2.0 BIL #906 REAL ESTATE

Liu Yiqian S

Huang Wenji & family 

$3.0 BIL #569 INVESTMENTS

$2.0 BIL #906 UMBRELLAS

Chanchai Ruayrungruang S

Hui Lin Chit T

Huang Rulun T

LI HEJUN: CHINAFOTOPRESS/GETTY IMAGES;


PAINTING: PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

In January, Zhous Kunlun Tech, one of Chinas top game developers, acquired a 60% stake in gay dating app Grindr for
$93 million in cash. The company is apparently hoping to
use it to draw international traffic to its games. In February
2015 Kunlun signed a deal with Finland-based Rovio, maker
of Angry Birds, to develop the game specically for the Chinese
market; a localized version was released ve months later.

$2.0 BIL #906 HYGIENE


PRODUCTS

$2.9 BIL #595 REAL ESTATE

Wu Guangming & family S

Lu Xiangyang S

$2.0 BIL #906 MEDICAL


EQUIPMENT

$2.9 BIL #595 AUTOMOBILES,


BATTERIES

Yan Zhi S

Xue Xiangdong & family T


$2.8 BIL #612 SOFTWARE

Cai Dongqing S
$2.7 BIL #638 ANIMATION

$2.6 BIL #666 PHARMACEUTICALS

Zhou Yahui

Sze Man Bok T

$3.2 BIL #527 DAIRY PRODUCTS

Ke Zunhong & family 

NEWSMA K E R

$2.1 BIL #854 CHEMICALS

Yang Kai S

$2.7 BIL #638 NATURAL GAS


DISTRIBUTION

EXPATRIATES
HONG KONG
6

Jiang Weiping & family 

$2.1 BIL #854 HYGIENE PRODUCTS

Li Shuirong S

HAINAN ISLAND

$2.1 BIL #854 REAL ESTATE

$3.2 BIL #527 REAL ESTATE

Wang Yusuo & family X

SHENZHEN
28

$2.1 BIL #854 HOSPITALS

Zhu Gongshan S

$2.7 BIL #638 INVESTMENTS

MACAU

Chen Bang S
Feng Hailiang X

Chen Fashu T
SHANTOU 2
CHAOZHUO
PUNING

Xiao Wenge S

$3.3 BIL #495 REAL ESTATE

$2.9 BIL #595 ONLINE


PAYMENT SERVICE

QUANZHOU 3

ANSHUN

$2.2 BIL #810 SURVEILLANCE


EQUIPMENT

Simon Xie S

FUZHOU 3

GUANGZHOU
13

Fu Liquan & family X

$3.3 BIL #495 ACOUSTIC


COMPONENTS

$3.0 BIL #569 REAL ESTATE

SUZHOU 5

WUXI
LINAN 2
WUHU SHANGYU
2

NANYANG

Jiang Bin X

Wu Yajun & family T

BINZHOU

Song Zuowen X

$2.0 BIL #906 REAL ESTATE

Yi Zheng S
$2.0 BIL #906 SOFTWARE

Du Jiangtao & family S


$1.9 BIL #959 CHEMICALS

Huang Qiaoling 
$1.9 BIL #959 AMUSEMENT
PARKS

Liang Xinjun T
$1.9 BIL #959 CONGLOMERATE

Liang Yunchao T
$1.9 BIL #959 NUTRITION
SUPPLEMENTS

Que Wenbin & family S


$1.9 BIL #959 PHARMACEUTICALS

$2.6 BIL #666 PETROCHEMICALS

Wang Jing T

Liu Zhongtian & family T

$1.9 BIL #959 TELECOM


SERVICES

$2.6 BIL #666 ALUMINUM


PRODUCTS

Wu Zhigang & family 

Zhang Xin & family T

$1.9 BIL #959 FOOD

$2.6 BIL #666 REAL ESTATE

Yao Zhenhua 

Li Zhongchu T

$1.9 BIL #959 LOGISTICS,


REAL ESTATE

$2.5 BIL #688 SOFTWARE

Wang Xing S
$2.5 BIL #688 E-COMMERCE

Yu Yong T
$2.5 BIL #688 MINING
INVESTMENTS

Lin Xiucheng & family S


$2.4 BIL #722 ELECTRONICS

Wang Changtian S
$2.4 BIL #722 TV, MOVIE
PRODUCTION

Zhou Chengjian S
$1.9 BIL #959 APPAREL RETAILER

Cao Longxiang & family S


$1.8 BIL #1011 PHARMACEUTICALS

Chen Hua 
$1.8 BIL #1011 REAL ESTATE

Fang Wei X
$1.8 BIL #1011 STEEL

Jiang Rensheng & family S


$1.8 BIL #1011 VACCINE
PRODUCTION

MARCH 21, 2016 FORBES | 91

THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES

CHINA

Jiang Zhaobai T

Huang Zhenda & family T

Liu Changqing & family T

Yao Xinyi 

$1.5 BIL #1198 REAL ESTATE

$1.3 BIL #1367 CONSTRUCTION

$1.1 BIL #1577 AIR CONDITIONING

Wang Qingtao X

Li Li & family X

Hung Yau Lit 

$1.2 BIL #1476 BANKING


EQUIPMENT

$1.5 BIL #1198 PHARMACEUTICALS

$1.3 BIL #1367 INTIMATE WEAR

Ni Zhaoxing T

$1.1 BIL #1577 AUTO PARTS

$1.8 BIL #1011 STEEL SMELTING

Xu Jingren S
$1.8 BIL #1011 PHARMACEUTICALS

Zhu Qingyi 
$1.8 BIL #1011 REAL ESTATE

Che Jianxing 4
$1.7 BIL #1067 FURNITURE
RETAILING

Fu Meicheng & family S

Li Liufa & family T

Kei Hoi Pang T

$1.5 BIL #1198 STEEL, DIVERSIFIED

$1.3 BIL #1367 REAL ESTATE

$1.2 BIL #1476 REAL ESTATE

Ruan Shuilong & family T


$1.2 BIL #1476 CHEMICALS

Lin Jianhua & family T

Li Weiwei 

$1.5 BIL #1198 SOLAR PANEL


COMPONENTS

$1.3 BIL #1367 ONLINE GAMES

Ma Hong & family S

$1.3 BIL #1367 BATTERIES,


MINI MOTORS

Sun Shoukuan T

Lu Di 

Wang Junjin 

$1.3 BIL #1367 DRONES

$1.2 BIL #1476 REGIONAL AIRLINE

$1.5 BIL #1198 APPAREL


RETAILER

Liang Guangwei X

Su Weizhong 
$1.2 BIL #1476 OIL, FERTILIZERS
$1.2 BIL #1476 METALS. COAL

Yin Xingman & family 


Zhang Zhongneng & fam 4
$1.1 BIL #1577 ALUMINUM

Chen Jiancheng & family 


$1.0 BIL #1694 MANUFACTURING

Chen Jiangtao & family 


$1.0 BIL #1694 SOFTWARE

Cheng Wei 
$1.0 BIL #1694 RIDE-HAILING
SERVICE

$1.7 BIL #1067 TV SHOWS,


MOVIES

Ni Zugen 

Li Shufu T

Qi Jinxing 4

Miao Shouliang X

Wen Jianping T

Dou Zhenggang 4

$1.7 BIL #1067 AUTOMOBILES

$1.5 BIL #1198 REAL ESTATE

$1.3 BIL #1367 REAL ESTATE,


DIVERSIFIED

$1.2 BIL #1476 SEWAGE


TREATMENT

$1.0 BIL #1694 ENERGY, WASTE,


CHEMICALS

Liu Xiaodong 

Shi Yuzhu T

Ou Zongrong 

Wu Yiling & family T

Fu Kwan 4

$1.5 BIL #1198 ONLINE GAMES,


INVESTMENTS

$1.3 BIL #1367 REAL ESTATE

$1.2 BIL #1476 PHARMACEUTICALS

$1.7 BIL #1067 PIG BREEDING

Shuai Fangwen & family S

Ren Jianhua 

Yang Keng S

$1.0 BIL #1694 REAL ESTATE,


DIVERSIFIED

$1.3 BIL #1367 KITCHEN


APPLIANCES

$1.2 BIL #1476 REAL ESTATE

Ren Zhengfei S

$1.5 BIL #1198 PHARMACEUTICALS

$1.7 BIL #1067 TELECOM


EQUIPMENT

Wang Jianfeng & family S

Shao Zhongyi T

$1.2 BIL #1476 EDUCATION

$1.5 BIL #1198 AUTO PARTS

$1.3 BIL #1367 SOYBEAN


TRADING

$1.7 BIL #1067 FLAVORINGS

Qin Yinglin & family S

Shen Wenrong S
$1.7 BIL #1067 STEEL
PRODUCTION

$1.5 BIL #1198 APPLIANCES

Wang Laichun S
$1.5 BIL #1198 ELECTRONICS
COMPONENTS

Wang Chaobin 

Yu Minhong 4
Zhao Xiaoqiang 
$1.2 BIL #1476 APPAREL

Gao Dekang & family T


$1.0 BIL #1694 APPAREL

Don Gao T
$1.0 BIL #1694 POWER TOOLS

He Zhiping & family 


$1.0 BIL #1694 INVESTMENTS

$1.3 BIL #1367 REAL ESTATE

Zheng Jianjiang & family 

Wang Laisheng S

Wang Han 

$1.2 BIL #1476 ELECTRICAL


EQUIPMENT

Li Fuchao & family X

$1.5 BIL #1198 ELECTRONICS


COMPONENTS

$1.3 BIL #1367 AIRLINE,


DIVERSIFIED

Cheng Xue S

Liu Shaoxi T

Wen Yibo & family S

Wu Gang 

$1.1 BIL #1577 SOY SAUCE

$1.0 BIL #1694 REAL ESTATE

$1.5 BIL #1198 WASTEWATER


TREATMENT

$1.3 BIL #1367 MONEY


MANAGEMENT

Chu Mang Yee & family X

Lu Feng 

$1.1 BIL #1577 REAL ESTATE

$1.7 BIL #1067 SOFTWARE

Zhang Desheng & family 

Wu Xushun & family 

$1.0 BIL #1694 FINANCIAL


INFORMATION

Zhang Li T

$1.5 BIL #1198 MANUFACTURING

Zhou Hongyi S

$1.3 BIL #1367 INTERNET,


AUTO PARTS

$1.1 BIL #1577 PHOTOVOLTAIC


EQUIPMENT

Lu Yonghua & family X

$1.7 BIL #1067 REAL ESTATE

Yuan Fugen & family 

Gu Wei T

Lv Yongxiang & family 

$1.3 BIL #1367 METAL


PROCESSING

$1.1 BIL #1577 CONSUMER


ELECTRONICS

$1.0 BIL #1694 MAGNETIC


SWITCHES

Zhang Bangxin 

Sun Xishuang T
$1.7 BIL #1067 REAL ESTATE

Wang Wenjing T
$1.7 BIL #1067 BUSINESS
SOFTWARE

Xu Ziquan & family 

Zhou Guohui S
$1.7 BIL #1067 LOGISTICS

Chen Jianhua & family S


$1.6 BIL #1121 CHEMICALS

Chen Jinxia T
$1.6 BIL #1121 INVESTMENTS

Ding Shijia S
$1.6 BIL #1121 SPORTSWEAR

Ding Shizhong & family S


$1.6 BIL #1121 SPORTS APPAREL

Fu Guangming & family 4


$1.6 BIL #1121 POULTRY

Hu Kaijun S
$1.6 BIL #1121 PHARMACEUTICALS

Huo Qinghua T
$1.6 BIL #1121 COAL

Ke Xiping & family T


$1.6 BIL #1121 INVESTMENTS

Lei Jufang S

$1.5 BIL #1198 SECURITY


SOFTWARE

Gao Tianguo 
$1.4 BIL #1275 REAL ESTATE,
FINANCE

Jiang Wei T
$1.4 BIL #1275 PHARMACEUTICALS

Lam Kong T
$1.4 BIL #1275 PHARMACEUTICALS

Ma Xingtian S
$1.4 BIL #1275 PHARMACEUTICALS

Shao Genhuo T
$1.4 BIL #1275 AGRIBUSINESS

Wang Jiufang 4
$1.4 BIL #1275 REAL ESTATE

Wong Kwong Yu & family T


$1.4 BIL #1275 RETAIL

Wong Luen Hei S


$1.4 BIL #1275 HOME BUILDING
MATERIALS

$1.6 BIL #1121 PHARMACEUTICALS

Yuan Yafei S

Lin Li T
$1.6 BIL #1121 INVESTMENTS

$1.4 BIL #1275 RETAILING,


INVESTMENTS

Tian Ming X

Zhang Changhong T

$1.6 BIL #1121 MEASURING


INSTRUMENTS

$1.4 BIL #1275 FINANCIAL


INFORMATION SERVICE

Wang Zhenghua S

Zhou Yifeng & family 

$1.6 BIL #1121 BUDGET AIRLINE

Zan Shengda X

$1.0 BIL #1694 TOURISM

Zhang Kaiyuan 

He Yamin & family 

$1.0 BIL #1694 APPAREL

$1.3 BIL #1367 GAS


DESULFURIZATION

$1.1 BIL #1577 MANUFACTURING

Zhang Zhangsun & family 

$1.1 BIL #1577 PHARMACEUTICALS

$1.3 BIL #1367 REAL ESTATE

Zheng Xiaodong 
$1.3 BIL #1367 MANUFACTURING

Zhu Chongyun & family X


$1.3 BIL #1367 APPAREL
RETAILER

Ao Xiaoqiang 
$1.2 BIL #1476 ELECTRICAL
EQUIPMENT

Cai Xiaoru 

Hua Xuande & family 


Li Tan T
$1.1 BIL #1577 PHARMACEUTICALS

Li Yong 
$1.1 BIL #1577 CHEMICALS

Li Zhen & family 


$1.1 BIL #1577 LITHIUM BATTERIES

Lin Bin T
$1.1 BIL #1577 SMARTPHONES

Liu Baolin T

$1.2 BIL #1476 ELECTRONIC


COMPONENTS

$1.1 BIL #1577 PHARMACIES,


DRUG DISTRIBUTION

Cao Kejian T

Liu Zhenguo S

$1.2 BIL #1476 AIR


COMPRESSORS, DRILLS

$1.1 BIL #1577 SEWAGE


TREATMENT

Chen Qingzhou & family 

Nan Cunhui T

Shen Dongri 
Sun Qinghuan T
$1.0 BIL #1694 LIGHTING

Wan Lianbu T
$1.0 BIL #1694 FERTILIZERS

Wang Jinshu T
$1.0 BIL #1694 CHEMICALS

Wang Junmin T
$1.0 BIL #1694 PHARMACEUTICALS

Wang Wenliang X
$1.0 BIL #1694 SHIPPING PORTS

Wei Shaojun T
$1.0 BIL #1694 REAL ESTATE

Xiu Laigui T
$1.0 BIL #1694 PHARMACEUTICALS

Jane Yan & family 


$1.0 BIL #1694 SOFTWARE

Ye Cheng T

$1.4 BIL #1275 CHEMICALS

Chen Yansheng & family 

Pan Weiming 

$1.0 BIL #1694 ONLINE GAMES

An Kang S

$1.2 BIL #1476 TOYS,


ENTERTAINMENT

$1.1 BIL #1577 REAL ESTATE

Cheng Xianfeng 
$1.2 BIL #1476 PHARMACEUTICALS

$1.1 BIL #1577 HOME,


OFFICE PRODUCTS

Geng Jianming & family T

Wang Junhao 

Zhu Baoguo & family 4


$1.6 BIL #1121 PHARMACEUTICALS

$1.3 BIL #1367 INTERNET

Zhu Xingliang T

Hua Yong 

$1.6 BIL #1121 CONSTRUCTION

$1.3 BIL #1367 SOFTWARE

Fang Tonghua & family 

Huang Li T

92 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

Peng Jianhu & family 

$1.1 BIL #1577 ELECTRONICS


COMPONENTS

$1.0 BIL #1694 CONGLOMERATE

Chen Baozhen 

$1.5 BIL #1198 REAL ESTATE

Han Tao 

$1.3 BIL #1367 AFTERSCHOOL


TUTORING

$1.1 BIL #1577 ELECTRICAL


POWER EQUIPMENT

$1.3 BIL #1367 PHARMACEUTICALS

Huang Hongyun & family T

$1.0 BIL #1694 ELECTRONICS

$1.2 BIL #1476 COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT

$1.6 BIL #1121 DIVERSIFIED

$1.5 BIL #1198


PHARMACEUTICALS

Fan Zhaoxia & family X

$1.0 BIL #1694 AUTO PARTS

$1.3 BIL #1367 INFRARED


IMAGING SYSTEMS

Huang Qisen T
$1.3 BIL #1367 REAL ESTATE

Ru Jiyong & family 

$1.2 BIL #1476 REAL ESTATE

$1.1 BIL #1577 REGIONAL AIRLINE

Huang Chulong S

Wang Yue 

$1.2 BIL #1476 REAL ESTATE

$1.1 BIL #1577 ONLINE GAMES

Li Fucheng & family 

Swift Xie 

$1.2 BIL #1476 AGRIBUSINESS

$1.1 BIL #1577 DRONES

Zeng Kaitian 
Zhang Keqiang 4
$1.0 BIL #1694 REAL ESTATE

Zhang Wanzhen 
$1.0 BIL #1694 ADVANCED
CERAMICS

Zhou Yaoting & family T


$1.0 BIL #1694 APPAREL,
REAL ESTATE

Zhuang Min 
$1.0 BIL #1694 SURVEILLANCE
EQUIPMENT

THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES

CZECH
REPUBLIC

COLOMBIA
GDP: $299.6 BIL
POPULATION: 50 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 3
TOTAL NET WORTH: $13.6 BIL
($4.9 BIL VS. 2015)

EGYPT
GDP: $307.4 BIL
POPULATION: 88 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 6 (2 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $14.2 BIL
($9.3 BIL VS. 2015)

PRAGUE
3
VELKE POPOVICE

BOGOTA
2

Luis Carlos Sarmiento T

VRANE NAD
VLTAVOU

$8.9 BIL #124 BANKING

Nassef Sawiris T
$3.7 BIL #421 CONSTRUCTION, CHEMICALS

Jaime Gilinski Bacal X

Naguib Sawiris T

$3.1 BIL #549 BANKING

$3 BIL #569 TELECOM

Carlos Ardila Lulle T

Mohamed Mansour T

EXPATRIATE
1

$1.6 BIL #1121 SOFT DRINKS,


DIVERSIFIED

CYPRUS

$2.5 BIL #688 DIVERSIFIED

GDP: $18.9 BIL


POPULATION: 1 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 5
TOTAL NET WORTH: $13.4 BIL
($2.4 BIL VS. 2015)

John Fredriksen T
$8.5 BIL #133 SHIPPING

Stelios Haji-Ioannou T
$1.4 BIL #1275 EASYJET

GDP: $182.4 BIL


POPULATION: 11 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 5
TOTAL NET WORTH: $17.8 BIL (+$2.3
BIL VS. 2015)

Youssef Mansour T
$1.7 BIL #1067 DIVERSIFIED

Yasseen Mansour T
$1.4 BIL #1275 DIVERSIFIED

Petr Kellner S
Andrej Babis X

$1.3 BIL #1367 EASYJET

$2.5 BIL #688 AGRICULTURE

Suat Gunsel X

CAIRO
5

Radovan Vitek S

LEFKOSA

$1.1 BIL #1577 REAL ESTATE,


EDUCATION

$1.9 BIL #959 REAL ESTATE

Clelia Haji-Ioannou T

EXPATRIATE
4

$1.1 BIL #1577 EASYJET


R ICHEST

Karel Komarek T
$1.6 BIL #1121 OIL & GAS

Pavel Tykac S

EXPATRIATE
1

$1.2 BIL #1476 COAL MINING

John Fredriksen
Rough sailing for Fredriksen: Shares of his deepwater
drillship operator Seadrill and dry bulk shipper Golden Ocean collapsed along with oil prices, shrinking his
fortune by $2 billion. In December he told a Norwegian nancial newspaper that he handed over responsibility for a $2 billion investment portfolio to his twin
daughters, Cecilie and Kathrine, age 32.

FINLAND

DENMARK
GDP: $295.8 BIL
POPULATION: 6 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 6 (+1 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $29.4 BIL (+$3.7 BIL VS. 2015)
SILKEBORG

Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen S


$13.1 BIL #65 LEGO

AARHUS

Anders Holch Povlsen T

GDP: $228.3 BIL


POPULATION: 5 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 6 (+1 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $10.5 BIL (+$2.4 BIL VS. 2015)

EXPATRIATE
1

HUMLEBAEK

BILLUND

$5.2 BIL #258 RETAIL

Niels Peter Louis-Hansen T


$3.8 BIL #403 MEDICAL DEVICES

HADERSLEV

COPENHAGEN

Lars Larsen T

Antti Herlin T

$3.1 BIL #549 RETAIL

$3.5 BIL #453 ELEVATORS, ESCALATORS

Hanni Toosbuy Kasprzak T


$2.6 BIL #666 SHOES

$2.8 BIL #612 DENTAL PRODUCTS

R ICH E ST

Martin Moller Nielsen 

Ilkka Herlin T

Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen

$1.6 BIL #1121 AIRCRAFT LEASING

The Force is strong with the Lego


deputy chairman: His net worth
soared by $3.4 billion in the past year
as movie-themed sets like Star Wars
and Jurassic Park, as well as girlcentric Elves, ew off shelves,
boosting sales 23% through
June 2015. In this galaxy the
little plastic bricks manufactured annually by
Lego could circle the
world 24 times over.

$1.1 BIL #1577 ELEVATORS, ESCALATORS

Niklas Herlin T
$1.1 BIL #1577 ELEVATORS, ESCALATORS

Antti Aarnio-Wihuri X

HELSINKI
5

$1 BIL #1694 DIVERSIFIED

Ilona Herlin T
$1 BIL #1694 ELEVATORS, ESCALATORS
KIRKKONUMMI

N E WS M AKER

Ilkka Herlin
In the cold dark waters off Scotlands coast plans are in
place for the worlds rst oating wind farm, Statoils
Hywind Scotland Pilot Park. MacGregor, a subsidiary of Cargotec, whose major shareholders are Niklas,
Ilkka and Ilona Herlin, will provide the parts to help
anchor turbines three times the height of the Statue of
Liberty against the waves of the North Sea.
WEALTH STATUS: UP S DOWN TUNCHANGED X NEW + RETURNEE 3 DIVIDED FORTUNE 
TECH CENTER

PLAYGROUND

OIL & GAS FIELDS AND DEPOSITS

FINANCIAL CENTER

NICK HARVEY/GETTY IMAGES; STANISLAV KRASILNIKOV/NEWSCOM

Heikki Kyostila 

94 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

$1.9 BIL #959 RETAIL, INVESTMENTS

$10.6 BIL #96 BANKING, INSURANCE

Polys Haji-Ioannou X

WINE-GROWING REGION

Mohamed Al Fayed T

WEALTH
ORIGIN

THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES

23%
49%

FRANCE

28%

N E WCO M E R
INHERITED & GROWING
INHERITED
SELF-MADE

He saw a windfall after his eponymous transportation and


logistics company (founded in 1979) was sold to XPO Logistics for $3.5 billion in June 2015. Dentressangle owned
67% of the rm, which operates the worlds largest peaprocessing plant, distributes Red Bull Energy Drinks throughout Europe and manages a chocolate warehouse in France.

TOP SECTORS

GDP: $2.4 TRIL


POPULATION: 64 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 39 (8 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $212 BIL ($41.4 BIL VS. 2015)

Norbert Dentressangle

8
FASHION & RETAIL
7
FOOD & BEVERAGE
5
HEALTH CARE
3
CONSTRUCTION & ENGR

N E WS M A K E R

3
FINANCE & INVEST

LOUIS LE DUFF

NEWSMAKER

Jacques Saade
EXPATRIATES
9

Saades shipping company


CMA CGM made a splash
in December 2015, when
its container ship Benjamin
Franklin became the largest ship in history to dock
at a North American port.
The ship, which is wider
than a football eld and longer than the Eiffel Tower is
tall, called at the Port of Los
Angeles before continuing
on to Oakland, Calif.

NORBERT DENTRESSANGLE: ERIC PIERMONT/AFP/GETTY IMAGES; PATRICK DRAHI: NEWSCOM; JACQUES SAADE:
ARNOLD JEROCKI/POLARIS/NEWSCOM; LOUIS LE DUFF: MARC OLLIVIER/OUEST FRANCE/NEWSCOM

Every day a million people in 80 countries on six continents enjoy pastry


king Louis Le Duffs baked goods at
his shops, including Brioche Dore and
Brueggers Bagels. The newest: A cafe
in Cte dIvoire that opened in November is the rst of whats expected to be
30 restaurants in 7 African nations.

CHAMPAGNE

PARIS-SACLAY

LAVAL
3

NANTES

ALSACE

PARIS
20

LOIRE

BURGUNDY

Liliane Bettencourt
& family T

ILE DE RE
COURCHEVAL

$36.1 BIL #11 LOREAL

Bernard Arnault & family T

LYON
2

$34 BIL #14 LVMH

Serge Dassault & family T

BORDEAUX

$14.7 BIL #56 AVIATION

Francois Pinault & family T

GRENOBLE

SAINTEMILION

$11.5 BIL #84 RETAIL

RHONE

Alain Wertheimer S

VALBONNE

$11 BIL #90 CHANEL

Gerard Wertheimer S

NICE

$11 BIL #90 CHANEL


TOULOUSE

Xavier Niel T

MONTPELLIER

$8.6 BIL #129 INTERNET, TELECOM

Emmanuel Besnier S
$7.6 BIL #151 CHEESE

Jean-Claude Decaux & fam T


$6.5 BIL #176 ADVERTISING

Patrick Drahi T
$5.9 BIL #205 TELECOM

Vincent Bollore T
$5.3 BIL #248 INVESTMENTS

Pierre Bellon & family T


$4.4 BIL #338 FOOD SERVICES

Carrie Perrodo & family T


$4.2 BIL #358 OIL

Martin & Olivier Bouygues X


$3.6 BIL #435 CONSTRUCTION,
MEDIA

Michel Leclercq & family S

B IG G E ST LOS E R

LANGUEDOC

Patrick Drahi
Drahi lost $10.1 billion as
shares in his global telecom company, Altice,
tumbled by 40% over the
past year. Investors are reportedly nervous about
the rms growing debt to
nance expansion. In 2015
Altice made its rst push
into the U.S., snapping up
a majority stake in cable
operator Suddenlink for
$9.1 billion. The Moroccanborn founder owns nearly
60% of Altices stock.

N E WS M A K E R

EMMANUEL BESNIER
French dairy giant Lactalis, run by Besnier (whos
sometimes called Frances Howard Hughes because
hes so reclusive), was one of ten companies in a dairy
cartel busted for price-xing by Frances Competition
Authority in March 2015. Lactalis, which is the worlds
biggest dairy rm and known for its Presidents Brie,
received the stiffest ne of the group ($63.8 million).

$3.4 BIL #477 SPORTING GOODS

WEALTH STATUS: UP S DOWN TUNCHANGED X NEW + RETURNEE 3 DIVIDED FORTUNE 


WINE-GROWING REGION

96 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

MARSEILLE

TECH CENTER

PLAYGROUND

OIL & GAS FIELDS AND DEPOSITS

FINANCIAL CENTER

ST. TROPEZ
CANNES
ST. RAPHAEL
ST. MAXIME

THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES


Alain Merieux & family T
$3.3 BIL #495 PHARMACEUTICALS

Bernard Fraisse S
$3.0 BIL #569 PHARMACEUTICALS

Jean-Michel Besnier S
$2.7 BIL #638 CHEESE

Marie Besnier Beauvalot S


$2.7 BIL #638 CHEESE

GERMANY

RI CH E ST

BEATE HEISTER &


KARL ALBRECHT JR.

GDP: $3.4 TRIL


POPULATION: 81 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 120 (+17 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $469.1 BIL (+$34.1 BIL VS. 2015)

Discount supermarkets have saturated Germany, so these siblings


supermarket chain, Aldi Sued, has
been expanding westward in the
U.S., where its nearly 1,500 Aldi
stores keep prices low by stocking
a limited number of items and not
accepting credit cards. Moving west puts them in stiffer competition with their cousin Theo Albrecht Jr. and his Aldi Nord,
which owns popular grocery chain Trader Joes.

Jean Pierre Cayard T


$2.7 BIL #638 SPIRITS

TOP SECTORS

WEALTH
ORIGIN

Philippe Foriel-Destezet T
$2.5 BIL #688 EMPLOYMENT
AGENCY

32%

Louis Le Duff S

37
FASHION & RETAIL
19
HEALTH CARE

28%

18
MANUFACTURING

$2.5 BIL #688 BAKERIES


40%

Marc Ladreit de Lacharriere S


$2.4 BIL #722 FINANCE

Nicolas Puech S

SYLT

10
FOOD & BEVERAGE

INHERITED & GROWING


INHERITED
SELF-MADE

EXPATRIATES
19

7
FINANCE & INVEST

$2.1 BIL #854 HERMES

7
MEDIA & ENTERTAIN

Clement Fayat & family S

HAMBURG
9

$1.8 BIL #1011 CONSTRUCTION

Michel Chalhoub & family T

AURICH

$1.7 BIL #1067 RETAIL

BREMEN

Jacques Saade & family S


$1.7 BIL #1067 SHIPPING

Edouard Carmignac T
$1.5 BIL #1198 ASSET MANAGEMENT

Gilles Martin S
$1.5 BIL #1198 LABORATORY
SERVICES

Alain Taravella S
$1.4 BIL #1275 REAL ESTATE

Anne Beaufour S
$1.3 BIL #1367 PHARMACEUTICALS

Henri Beaufour S
$1.3 BIL #1367 PHARMACEUTICALS

Jean Burelle S
$1.2 BIL #1476 AUTOMOTIVE
SYSTEMS

Laurent Burelle S
$1.2 BIL #1476 AUTOMOTIVE
SYSTEMS

Charles Edelstenne S
$1.2 BIL #1476 AVIATION

BRUNSWICK

OSNABRUCK
STRAELEN

B IG G E ST LOS E R

Georg
Schaeffler

DUISBURG

Schaeffler is worth
$8.8 billion less this
year after a drop in
the stock price of tire
and auto parts giant
Continental, which he
partly owns. Also his
familys ball bearing
company, Schaeffler
Group, went public in
October at a valuation
lower than the one
FORBES had estimated a year ago.

MESCHEDE

GUETERSLOH
ESSEN

KREFELD
DUSSELDORF
2

MELSUNGEN
8

DRESDEN

ALLENDORF

KOENIGSTEIN

ROTTENDORF
FRANKFURT
2 DARMSTADT

HERZOGENAURACH
2

WEINHEIM

RHEINGAU
ST. WENDEL

HEIDELBERG
2

LUDWIGSHAFEN

INGOLSTADT
WINNENDEN

STUTTGART
2

Norbert Dentressangle 
$1.1 BIL #1577 TRANSPORT,
LOGISTICS

MUNICH
3

ULM
2

ROSENHEIM

OHNINGEN

Mohed Altrad X

ASCHAU

$1.0 BIL #1694 SCAFFOLDING,


CEMENT MIXERS

TEGERNSEE
2

GEORGIA

NE WS MA KE R

WOLFGANG HERZ
Time to change your favorite
shade of blue? In 2013 Germanys
Federal Patent Court removed the
color trademark for Nivea Blue,
used by the Nivea skin-care company, but the countrys Supreme
Court reversed the order in July
2015, a decision the rm applauded. Wolfgang Herz and his brother Michael own 51% of Beiersdorf,
the parent company of Nivea.

N E WS M A K E R

Michael Otto
Its been a tough year for his Otto
Group, the German parent of U.S.
furniture and home-accessory retailer Crate & Barrel. Otto Group calls itself the
worlds second-largest Internet retailer, after
Amazon.com. In part because of a weak Russian ruble and competition from Chinas e-commerce giant Alibaba, Otto Group booked a net
loss of $215 million in scal 2015.

WEALTH STATUS: UP S DOWN TUNCHANGED X NEW + RETURNEE 3 DIVIDED FORTUNE 


WINE-GROWING REGION

98 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

TECH CENTER

PLAYGROUND

OIL & GAS FIELDS AND DEPOSITS

FINANCIAL CENTER

N E WCO M E R

Kurt Krieger

SCHWIEBERDINGEN

KARLSRUHE

$1.2 BIL #1476 ANIMAL FEED

NEUSTADT
AN DER
WALDNAAB

NECKARSULM

BRUCHSAL
2

WALLDORF

Daniel Roullier & family T

$4.8 BIL #298 INVESTMENTS

LEIPZIG

GREBENHAIN
BAD
HOMBURG
MONTABAUR
DREIEICH

$1.2 BIL #1476 WATER

Bidzina Ivanishvili T

BERLIN
5

DUDERSTADT

RHEDAWIEDENBRUECK
2
MULHEIM AN
DER RUHR 2

Pierre Papillaud X

GDP: $14 BIL


POPULATION: 4 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 1
TOTAL NET WORTH: $4.8
BIL ($400 MIL VS. 2015)

DOMICILE
UNKNOWN
9

LOWER
SAXONY

BIELEFELD
7 DETMOLD

Krieger bought the


rights to longtime furniture chain Hoeffner
in 1967 and turned
it into one of Germanys largest furniture retailers, competing with the
Swedish giant IKEA.
Since 2008 Kriegers
daughter Sonja has
been managing director. Hoeffner Group
has estimated revenues of $2.2 billion.

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THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES

GERMANY
Beate Heister & Karl
Albrecht Jr. S
$25.9 BIL #21 ALDI

Theo Albrecht Jr. & family S

Heinz-Georg Baus S

Jurgen Blickle S

Friederike Braun-Luedicke 

Johanna Braun 

$3.8 BIL #403 HOME


IMPROVEMENT STORES

$2.2 BIL #810 AUTO PARTS

$1.4 BIL #1275 MEDICAL


TECHNOLOGY

$1.2 BIL #1476 MEDICAL


TECHNOLOGY

Traudl Engelhorn & family S

$2.2 BIL #810 PUBLISHING

$3.8 BIL #403 PHARMACEUTICALS, MEDICAL EQUIPMENT

$20.3 BIL #34 ALDI, TRADER JOES

Ursula Engelhorn & family S

Susanne Klatten S

$3.8 BIL #403 PHARMACEUTICALS, MEDICAL EQUIPMENT

$18.5 BIL #38 BMW,


PHARMACEUTICALS

Georg Schaeffler T

Michael Herz T
$3.8 BIL #403 COFFEE

$18.1 BIL #39 BALL BEARINGS

Wolfgang Herz T

Dieter Schwarz T

$3.8 BIL #403 COFFEE

$16.4 BIL #47 RETAIL

Axel Oberwelland S

Stefan Quandt X

$3.7 BIL #421 CANDY

$15.6 BIL #48 BMW

Siegfried Meister S

Michael Otto & family T

$3.6 BIL #435 APPLIANCES

Hubert Burda T
Bergit Douglas S
$2.1 BIL #854 CONSUMER GOODS

Hans Georg Naeder S


$2.1 BIL #854 PROSTHETICS

Alfred Oetker S
$2.1 BIL #854 CONSUMER GOODS

August Oetker S
$2.1 BIL #854 CONSUMER GOODS

Richard Oetker S
$2.1 BIL #854 CONSUMER GOODS

Carl Ferdinand Oetker S

Anton Kathrein Jr T
$1.4 BIL #1275 ANTENNAS

Ludwig Theodor Braun 

Horst Julius Pudwill S

$1.2 BIL #1476 MEDICAL


TECHNOLOGY

$1.4 BIL #1275 MANUFACTURING

Dieter Schaub 
$1.4 BIL #1275 MEDIA

Jost Hellmann 
$1.3 BIL #1367 LOGISTICS

Klaus Hellmann 
$1.3 BIL #1367 LOGISTICS

Christian Oetker S

$1.3 BIL #1367 MEDICAL


FACILITIES

$3.4 BIL #477 MEDIA

$2.1 BIL #854 CONSUMER GOODS

Heinz Hermann Thiele & fam S

Friede Springer T

Julia Oetker S

$10 BIL #103 SHIPPING

$1.2 BIL #1476 MEDICAL


TECHNOLOGY

Lutz Mario Helmig T

Elisabeth Mohn & family T

Klaus-Michael Kuehne T

Karl Friedrich Braun 

$1.4 BIL #1275 SAP

$2.1 BIL #854 CONSUMER GOODS

$15.4 BIL #51 RETAIL,


REAL ESTATE
$11.7 BIL #82 BRAKES

Hans-Werner Hector T

Johannes Karcher 

Peter Leibinger 
$1.2 BIL #1476 MACHINE TOOLS

Regine Leibinger 
$1.2 BIL #1476 MACHINE TOOLS

Monika Schoeller S
$1.2 BIL #1476 PUBLISHING

Stefan von Holtzbrinck S


$1.2 BIL #1476 PUBLISHING

Horst Wortmann T
$1.2 BIL #1476 FOOTWEAR

Albert Berner & family T

$3.4 BIL #477 PUBLISHING

$2.1 BIL #854 CONSUMER GOODS

$1.3 BIL #1367 VACUUMS,


CLEANING PRODUCTS

Erich Kellerhals T

Rosely Schweizer S

Erika Pohl-Stroeher X

Friedrich Knapp T

$1.3 BIL #1367 HAIR PRODUCTS

$1.1 BIL #1577 RETAIL

Nicola LeibingerKammueller 

$1.1 BIL #1577 FASTENERS

$3.3 BIL #495 ELECTRONICS


RETAILER

$2.1 BIL #854 CONSUMER GOODS

$9.5 BIL #113 SOFTWARE

Martin Viessmann & family T

$2 BIL #906 AUTO PARTS

Susanne Zimmermann
von Siefart 

Udo & Harald Tschira 

$3.3 BIL #495 HEATING


EQUIPMENT

Clemens Toennies T

$1.3 BIL #1367 VACUUMS,


HOME CLEANING PRODUCTS

$1.1 BIL #1577 MACHINERY

Anna Maria Braun 

$1.1 BIL #1577 BEER

Hasso Plattner & family S

$9.3 BIL #116 SOFTWARE

Reinhold Wuerth & family S


$8.1 BIL #141 FASTENERS

Dietmar Hopp & family S

Andreas von Bechtolsheim &


family T
$3.3 BIL #495 GOOGLE

$7.9 BIL #146 SOFTWARE

Andreas Struengmann T

August von Finck T


$7.6 BIL #151 INVESTMENTS

Thomas Struengmann T

Walter Droege 
$6.4 BIL #178 CONSULTING

Erwin Franz Mueller S

Curt Engelhorn & family X


$6.2 BIL #188 PHARMACEUTICALS

Erivan Haub & family T

Wolfgang Marguerre S
$6.1 BIL #196 PHARMACEUTICALS

Guenther Lehmann S

Heinrich Deichmann & fam S


$5.6 BIL #228 FOOTWEAR

Dirk Rossmann & family X

Aloys Wobben S

Otto Philipp Braun 

$5.4 BIL #240 WIND TURBINES

Guenther Fielmann & fam. S

$3.2 BIL #527 PHARMACEUTICALS


$3.2 BIL #527 PHARMACEUTICALS
$3 BIL #569 DRUGSTORES
$2.9 BIL #595 RETAIL
$2.9 BIL #595 DRUGSTORES
$2.9 BIL #595 DRUGSTORES
$2.8 BIL #612 MEDICAL
TECHNOLOGY

$5.3 BIL #248 OPTOMETRY

Otto Happel S

Ludwig Merckle S

$2.8 BIL #612 ENGINEERING

$5.1 BIL #262 PHARMACEUTICALS

Daniela Herz T

Karl-Heinz Kipp X

$2.8 BIL #612 COFFEE

$5 BIL #270 RETAIL

Guenter Herz & Family T

Michael Stoschek & family S

$2.8 BIL #612 COFFEE

$4.8 BIL #298 AUTO PARTS

Alexandra Schorghuber S

Hans Peter Wild S

$2.8 BIL #612 REAL ESTATE

$4.7 BIL #308 FLAVORINGS

Hans Strothoff 

Theo Mueller S

$2.8 BIL #612 KITCHEN,


PLUMBING RETAILER

$4.5 BIL #324 DAIRY

Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler T
$4.5 BIL #324 BALL BEARINGS

Wolfgang Reimann S
$4.4 BIL #338 CONSUMER
GOODS

Yvonne Bauer & family T


$2.6 BIL #666 MEDIA

Dieter Schnabel S
$2.5 BIL #688 CHEMICALS

Bernd Freier S

Matthias ReimannAndersen S

$2.4 BIL #722 RETAIL

$4.4 BIL #338 CONSUMER GOODS

$2.4 BIL #722 MANUFACTURING

Stefan Reimann-Andersen S

Friedhelm Loh T

Rainer Blickle S

$2 BIL #906 MEAT


PROCESSING

Peter Unger S
$2 BIL #906 AUTO REPAIR
$2 BIL #906 REAL ESTATE,
INVESTMENTS

Thomas Bruch & family S


$1.8 BIL #1011 FOOD RETAILING

Hedda Brahm Droege 


Gudrun Heine 
$1.8 BIL #1011 MEDICAL DEVICES

Sybill Storz 
$1.8 BIL #1011 MEDICAL DEVICES

Sylvia Stroeher X
$1.8 BIL #1011 COSMETICS

Philip Niarchos X
$2.5 BIL #688 ART COLLECTION

Spiro Latsis & family T


$2 BIL #906 BANKING, SHIPPING

EXPATRIATES
2

$1.7 BIL #1067 AUTO PARTS

Rolf Gerling S
$1.7 BIL #1067 INSURANCE

Klaus-Peter Schulenberg S
$1.7 BIL #1067 TICKETING
SERVICE

Torsten Toeller X
$1.7 BIL #1067 PET FOOD

SKORPIOS
MYKONOS

Willibert Krueger 
$1.6 BIL #1121 FOOD
PROCESSING

SANTORINI

Robert Toennies T
$1.6 BIL #1121 MEAT PROCESSING

Josef Boquoi & family X


$1.5 BIL #1198 FROZEN FOODS

Christoph Henkel T
$1.5 BIL #1198 CONSUMER
GOODS

$4.4 BIL #338 CONSUMER GOODS

Kurt Krieger 

Bernhard Braun-Luedicke 

Bernard Broermann S

$2.3 BIL #771 FURNITURE


RETAILING

100 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

GDP: $194 BIL


POPULATION: 11 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 2 (1 VS.
2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $4.5
BIL ($2.5 BIL VS. 2015)

Fritz Draexlmaier S

$2.4 BIL #722 RETAIL

$4.2 BIL #358 INTERNET


SERVICE PROVIDER

GREECE

$1.7 BIL #1067 AUTO PARTS

Renate Reimann-Haas S

$2.3 BIL #771 FOOD WHOLESALE


AND RETAIL

$1 BIL #1694 FURNITURE

Hubertus Benteler 

Matthias Reinhart 

Herman Langness 

Bruno Steinhoff T

$1.8 BIL #1011 CONSULTING

Michael & Reiner


Schmidt-Ruthenbeck T

Ralph Dommermuth S

Susanne Veltins 

Georg von Opel X

$4.4 BIL #338 CONSUMER GOODS

$4.3 BIL #351 HOSPITALS

$1.2 BIL #1476 MEDICAL


TECHNOLOGY

$1.5 BIL #1198 FINANCE


$1.4 BIL #1275 MEDICAL
TECHNOLOGY

Eva Maria Braun-Luedicke 


$1.4 BIL #1275 MEDICAL
TECHNOLOGY

GUERNSEY
GDP: $2.6 BIL
POPULATION: 63,000
BILLIONAIRES: 1
TOTAL NET WORTH: $1.9
BIL (+$100 MIL VS. 2015)

Stephen Lansdown S
$1.9 BIL #959
FINANCIAL SERVICES

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LAND CLOSER, AND MAKE IT HOME IN
TIME FOR A HEALTHY DINNER.
Name:
Title:

Irwin Simon
CEO, Hain Celestial Group, Inc.
Father, Husband, Entrepreneur
Aircraft: King Air 350i

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The King Air 350i is the most efficient way to make every appointment, from my multiple Hain Plants to
retailers to a night with the kids at home. Its the smartest way to balance my work schedule with my family
life, while still watching my bottom line.
Wheels Up acts as an agent for the Wheels Up members, and is not the operator of the program aircraft; FAA licensed and DOT registered
air carriers participating in the program exercise full operational control of the program aircraft. Subject to additional terms and conditions
in the Wheels Up Program documents.

THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES

HONG KONG

N E WS M A K E R

JOSEPH LAU
Lau purchased a 16-carat pink diamond for
$29 million in November and named it Sweet Josephine. One day later he bought a rare 12-carat
blue diamond for a record-breaking $49 million for
his 7-year-old daughter, Josephine. Meanwhile, the
real estate tycoon is awaiting possible extradition
to Macau after being sentenced by the city to more
than ve years in prison for bribery and money
laundering in 2014.

GDP: $309.1 BIL


POPULATION: 7 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 64 (+9 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $241.3 BIL ($4.8 BIL VS. 2015)
TOP SECTORS

WEALTH
ORIGIN

25
REAL ESTATE

2%
34%
64%

8
MANUFACTURING

EXPATRIATES
11

6
DIVERSIFIED

INHERITED & GROWING


INHERITED
SELF-MADE

HONG KONG

6
FASHION & RETAIL

53

5
GAMBLING, CASINOS

HONG KONG SCIENCE PARK

Li Ka-shing T
$27.1 BIL #20 DIVERSIFIED

Lee Shau Kee T


$21.5 BIL #31 REAL ESTATE

Cheng Yu-tung S

N E WCO M E R

LAN KWAI FONG

$14.5 BIL #58 DIVERSIFIED

Zhou Qunfei
DEEP WATER BAY

$13.1 BIL #65 REAL ESTATE

Thomas & Raymond Kwok T

REPULSE BAY

$13 BIL #68 REAL ESTATE

Lui Che Woo T

B IG G E ST LOS E R

$7.6 BIL #151 CASINOS

Li Ka-shing

Peter Woo T

Lis net worth tumbled $6.2 billion in the past year to $27.1 billion, its lowest
level in four years. The culprit: Shares of Canadian oil giant Husky Energy, in
which hes been an investor for nearly 30 years, lost more than half their value,
knocking $5.1 billion off his fortune. Back in Asia his loyalty to the mainland was
questioned by Chinas government-controlled media in September, following
asset disposals there and more than $28 billion in investments in Europe over
the previous ve years; Li denied the claims in a three-page statement.

$6.6 BIL #174 REAL ESTATE

Walter Kwok T
$6.2 BIL #188 REAL ESTATE

Pan Sutong T
$5.9 BIL #205 REAL ESTATE,
FINANCE

Zhou Qunfei 

Yeung Kin-man 

William Fung T

$2.7 BIL #638 ELECTRONICS

$1.6 BIL #1121 SOURCING

Lam Wai Ying 

Li Sze Lim T

$5.8 BIL #214 HOTELS, ENERGY

$2.6 BIL #666 ELECTRONICS

$1.6 BIL #1121 REAL ESTATE

Francis Choi S

Ronald McAulay T

Tianfu Lin T

$5.7 BIL #219 REAL ESTATE

$2.6 BIL #666 ENERGY

Law Kar Po S

Huang Shih Tsai T

$1.6 BIL #1121 FOOTWEAR,


APPAREL

$5.9 BIL #205 SMARTPHONE


SCREENS

Michael Kadoorie T

$5.3 BIL #248 REAL ESTATE

$2.4 BIL #722 REAL ESTATE

Vivien Chen T

Patrick Lee X

$5.1 BIL #262 REAL ESTATE

$2.4 BIL #722 PAPER

Richard Li S

Michael Ying T

$4.6 BIL #317 TELECOM

$2.4 BIL #722 RETAIL

Gong Hongjia & family T

Fong Yun Wah X

$1.6 BIL #1121 CONGLOMERATE

Or Wai Sheun T

$2.3 BIL #771 REAL ESTATE

Edwin Leong S

Tang Yiu T
$2.3 BIL #771 RETAIL

Hui Wing Mau T

Vincent Lo S

$3.7 BIL #421 REAL ESTATE

$2 BIL #906 REAL ESTATE

Pansy Ho T

Sit Kwong Lam S

$1.2 BIL #1476 REAL ESTATE,


SHIPBUILDING

Billy Kan T
$1.1 BIL #1577 FINANCE, ENERGY

Thomas Lau T
$1.1 BIL #1577 DEPARTMENT
STORES

Liu Zhiqiang 
$1.1 BIL #1577 CONGLOMERATE

$1.6 BIL #1121 REAL ESTATE

Hsiang-chien Tang T

Cho Tak Wong X

$1.1 BIL #1577 TEXTILES,


ELECTRONICS

$1.5 BIL #1198 AUTO PARTS

$4.1 BIL #369 INVESTMENTS


$3.9 BIL #392 REAL ESTATE

Lo Siu Yu & family S

Zhang Zhirong T

Wong Man Li S
$1.5 BIL #1198 FURNITURE

Chan Tan Ching-fen 


$1.4 BIL #1275 REAL ESTATE

Angela Leong T

Tung Chee Hwa 


$1.1 BIL #1577 SHIPPING

Allan Wong T
$1.1 BIL #1577 ELECTRONICS

Albert Yeung T

$1.4 BIL #1275 CASINOS

$1.1 BIL #1577 REAL ESTATE,


RETAIL

$2 BIL #906 OIL,


TRANSPORTATION

Li Wa 

Yu Peidi & family S

$1.4 BIL #1275 REAL ESTATE

$1.1 BIL #1577 REAL ESTATE

King Pak Fu X

Tung Chee Chen 

Zhai Meiqin 

$1.9 BIL #959 REAL ESTATE

$1.4 BIL #1275 SHIPPING

$1.1 BIL #1577 CONGLOMERATE

Lee Man Tat S

Wu Jianshu 

Lo Siu-tong 

$3.1 BIL #549 REAL ESTATE

$1.9 BIL #959 FOOD

$1.4 BIL #1275 AUTO PARTS

C.F. Chan 

$1 BIL #1694 REAL ESTATE,


HOTELS

Ye Chenghai & family X

Cui Lijie S

$3 BIL #569 PHARMACEUTICALS

$1.8 BIL #1011 GAMBLING

$1.3 BIL #1367 HOTELS

Silas Chou S

Xiong Xuqiang & family S

Lawrence Ho T

$1.8 BIL #1011 REAL ESTATE

$1.2 BIL #1476 CASINOS

$3.4 BIL #477 CASINOS

Pollyanna Chu S
$3.1 BIL #549 FINANCIAL
SERVICES

Samuel Tak Lee S

$2.7 BIL #638 APPAREL

102 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

OIL & GAS FIELDS AND DEPOSITS

Thor Bjorgolfsson S
$1.6 BIL #1121 INVESTMENTS

EXPATRIATE
1

$1.7 BIL #1067 FLAVORINGS

PLAYGROUND

GDP: $16.8 BIL


POPULATION: 300,000
BILLIONAIRES: 1
TOTAL NET WORTH: $1.6
BIL (+$300 MIL VS. 2015)

$1 BIL #1694 VENTURE CAPITAL

WEALTH STATUS: UP S DOWN TUNCHANGED X NEW + RETURNEE 3 DIVIDED FORTUNE 


TECH CENTER

ICELAND

Neil Shen X

Chu Lam Yiu T

WINE-GROWING REGION

The worlds richest self-made female


entrepreneur, Zhou
jumped into the billionaire ranks in March
2015 when her Lens
Technology, maker
of glass components
for phones and tablets for customers
such as Apple, went
public on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
Zhou reportedly grew
up poor in rural China
and started working in a glass factory in 1993. She set up
her own company in
2003. Today Lens has
more than 60,000
employees.

FINANCIAL CENTER

DIAMOND: IMAGE COURTESY THE GEMOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA; TOMOHIRO


OHSUMI/BLOOMBERG; AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Joseph Lau S

PROMOTION

BURGESS IN 2016

THE GLOBAL LEADER


IN SUPERYACHT
SALES INTRODUCES
SILVER FAST

By GEORGIA BYRD

The superyacht market is healthy and thriving as it recovers from a period of economic
upheaval, which is resulting in an astounding level of success for Burgess, the 40-year-old
global superyacht leader.
ccording to President and Chief Executive Ofcer Jonathan Beckett, one of the worlds most
highly respected authorities on private luxury
yachting, Burgess has transitioned into what
he calls todays new market, a market that is seeing impressive sales figures and parity in supply and
demand. Prior to the close of the nal quarter of 2015,
he reports, Burgess was tracking ahead in the industry
for the second consecutive year, having sold yachts totaling more than 1 billion euros (US$1.23 billion) and 4,921
feet of combined length.
These numbers are expected to keep pace in 2016.
Beckett and his team attribute the favorable euro-dollar
exchange rate for attracting an increasing number of
dollar-based clients. In addition, they credit improved
technology for enabling owners to spend more time
aboard their yachts. Beckett says an increasing number
of todays owners are pushing the envelope, building new
yachts that are bigger, more technologically advanced

Yachting

and luxurious than ever before, challenging builders


who are producing just that.
The new market is a sensible market where prices are
reasonable, not inated, says Beckett. The stability of
todays market is encouraging people to step back into
the yacht market, both in sales and charterand, as a
result, 2014 and 2015 were two of our best ever performance years. The expertise of the Burgess team to sell,
charter, manage and oversee new builds guides clients to
the perfect superyacht experience, time after time.
Illustrative of the trust Burgess elicits in the superyacht world is one such client who has returned, tasking
the sales team yet again with a signicant challenge: to
sell one of the worlds newest and fastest yachts.

Silver Fast: In a Class of Its Own


The fourth in the Silver Series lineage is the 252.6-foot
Silver Fast. Making her U.S. debut at Yachts Miami
Beach in February before an audience comprising some

Go fast.
Go anywhere.

NEW YORK

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MIAMI

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LOS ANGELES

+1 310 424 5112

LONDON

+44 20 7766 4300

MONACO

+377 97 97 81 21

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THE WORLDS LEADING SUPERYACHT AUTHORITY

ENQUIRIES@BURGESSYACHTS.COM

WWW.BURGESSYACHTS.COM

PROMOTION

of the worlds most discriminating yacht buyers, Silver Fast


dazzled onlookers as well as the international media.
Her slender, contemporary aluminum hull glides through the
seas with a quiet speed unparalleled in yachts of her size. With
a maximum speed of nearly 27 knots and a cruising speed of 20
to 22 knots, her video footage emulates a lm in fast motion.
Silver Fasts light build of 952 gross tons makes her exceedingly
fuel efcient, and she can travel up to 4,500 nautical miles at
18 knots, transporting guests with the efciency of an expedition yacht, but with a much slimmer and stunningly beautiful

prole. She is also vibration-free for smooth and quiet nighttime passages when traveling at 18 to 20 knots.
Silver Fast has an impressively shallow draft at 8.5 feet,
enabling her to carry a crew of 18 and up to 18 guests to ports and
private islands that are inaccessible to many yachts of this length.
Her allure is even more evident inside, where a lavishly contemporary interior offers both space and amazing visibility of
the outside surroundings. Custom nishes combine diverse textures and surfaces from metallic painted walls to leather steps.
An aft theater room with a high-end plasma cinema screen
satises a desire for high-tech custom entertainment options
for her would-be owners. She also features a delightful winter
garden with a table that can seat up to 20 guests either in the
open air or shielded by a sliding glass wall, ensuring optimal
dining views no matter what the weather may be.
Silver Fasts beach club is a haven for workout enthusiasts,
offering gym equipment, a sauna, a hot steam room, a massage
room and a beauty salon. An eight-person Jacuzzi beckons on
the sundeck and a helipad provides a stable landing platform
for an AgustaWestland AW109 or a Eurocopter EC135 for swift
ventures to and from land. Silver Fast is offered for sale by
Burgess with an asking price of 79.5 million euros (US$90 million at press time).
For more information on Silver Fast or any of Burgess amazing yachts for sale or charter, visit www.burgessyachts.com or
contact the Burgess sales team at sales@burgessyachts.com.

Extraordinary Opportunity to Own a 167 (51m)


Trinity Yacht in Half the Time of a New Build
This stunning 167 (51m) Trinity Yacht was nearly 50% completed when the owner halted production.
Now, partially-built, shes being offered at well below the actual costs to date. Interiors designed by
Luiz Debasto for (5) five or (6) six staterooms, the hull is ready for transport to the shipyard of your choice! In
addition, the vessel comes with two-MTU 16V-4000 engines (at 3,650 HP each), ZF gears, two 155kw Northern
Lights generators, Dometic 50 Ton AC Chiller, a Quantum central hydraulic system, and other inventory ready
for completion. A condition and valuation survey, completed by Pliske Marine Inc., is in-hand and available upon
request. The hull is stored in an outfitting building at the Trinity Yachts facility in New Orleans.

Contact: John Dane, Jdane31950@gmail.com or call: 228-861-8064 to schedule a visit.

WEALTH
ORIGIN
7%
45%

INDIA

INHERITED & GROWING


INHERITED
SELF-MADE

TOP SECTORS

GDP: $2.1 TRIL


POPULATION: 1.3 BIL
BILLIONAIRES: 84 (6 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $248.4 BIL
($45.9 BIL VS. 2015)

Mukesh Ambani T
$19.3 BIL #36 PETROCHEMICALS,
OIL & GAS

Dilip Shanghvi T
$16.7 BIL #44
PHARMACEUTICALS

Azim Premji T
$15 BIL #55 SOFTWARE
SERVICES

Shiv Nadar T

THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES

48%

15

R IC HE ST

HEALTH CARE
13

Mukesh Ambani

DIVERSIFIED
8
FASHION & RETAIL

The time of reckoning for Ambanis $15 billion bet on highspeed mobile data is fast approaching. Ahead of its public
launch this year, his Reliance
Jio introduced its 4G services to employees and their
families in December, handing out 500,000 free connections. It also started selling its
Lyf-branded smartphones, the
cheapest of which costs $95.
(Reliance controls Network18,
which publishes FORBES
INDIA, a licensed publication of
FORBES.)

8
TECHNOLOGY
7
MANUFACTURING
7
REAL ESTATE

B IG G E ST G A I N E R

CYRUS POONAWALLA

$11.1 BIL #88 SOFTWARE


SERVICES

Cyrus Poonawalla S

DELHI
13

HISAR
1

$8.5 BIL #133 VACCINES

In September, Indias vaccine king agreed to spend


$110 million for Lincoln House, the former American consulate in South Mumbai. The transfer of the
iconic seafront mansion, built in 1938 by the Maharaja of Wankaner from Gujarat, still needs government approval. Poonawalla, who added $1.9 billion to
his wealth in the past year due to higher prots at his
Serum Institute of India, isnt likely to move into his
new weekend retreat anytime soon.

Lakshmi Mittal T
$8.4 BIL #135 STEEL

Uday Kotak T
$6.3 BIL #184 BANKING

AHMEDABAD
6

Kumar Birla T
$6.1 BIL #196 COMMODITIES

Sunil Mittal & family T


$5.7 BIL #219 TELECOM

KOLKATA
4

BARODA
1

Desh Bandhu Gupta T


$5.5 BIL #233
PHARMACEUTICALS
MUMBAI
31

Shashi & Ravi Ruia S


$5 BIL #270 DIVERSIFIED

PUNE
5

Micky Jagtiani T
$4.4 BIL #338 RETAIL

HITEC CITY

M.A. Yusuff Ali S


$4.2 BIL #358 RETAIL

HYDERABAD
2

Vikram Lal S
$4 BIL #380 MOTORCYCLES

ELECTRONIC CITY

Subhash Chandra T

GOA

$3.6 BIL #435 MEDIA

BANGALORE
10

Gautam Adani T
$3.5 BIL #453 COMMODITIES,
INFRASTRUCTURE

TIDAL PARK

CHENNAI
1

$3.5 BIL #453 CEMENT


LINCOLN HOUSE: SHAILESH ANDRADE/REUTERS; SUBHANKAR CHAKRABORTY/NEWSCOM

Savitri Jindal & family T


$3.5 BIL #453 STEEL
THRISSUR
1

Pankaj Patel T
$3.5 BIL #453
PHARMACEUTICALS

COCHIN
1

Kapil & Rahul Bhatia +


$3.1 BIL #549 AIRLINES

Indu Jain S

Kuldip Singh & Gurbachan


Singh Dhingra S

$3.1 BIL #549 MEDIA

$2.5 BIL #688 PAINTS

Sudhir & Samir Mehta X

P.V. Ramprasad Reddy S

$3 BIL #569 DIVERSIFIED

$2.5 BIL #688


PHARMACEUTICALS

Ravi Pillai S
$2.9 BIL #595 CONSTRUCTION

Kushal Pal Singh T


$2.8 BIL #612 REAL ESTATE

Anil Ambani T
$2.5 BIL #688 DIVERSIFIED

N E WCO M E R

KAPIL & RAHUL BHATIA

Benu Gopal Bangur T

EXPATRIATES
8
INFOPARK

Starting with a single plane in 2006, IndiGo has become Indias largest and most protable airline, with
a eet of more than 100 aircraft, all made by Airbus.
It ew past rivals on its reputation for punctuality.
Its October IPO propelled the father and son owners,
Kapil and Rahul, as well as cofounder and industry
veteran Rakesh Gangwal, into the
billionaire ranks.

N E WCO M E R

Sachin Bansal
Two former Amazon engineers, Sachin
Bansal and Binny Bansal, who have the
same last name but are not related, started
selling books online from an apartment in
Bangalore in 2007, pooling $6,000 in savings. Today their Amazon clone, Flipkart,
has 46 million registered customers, makes
8 million shipments a month and is valued
at $15.2 billion.

Rahul Bajaj T
$2.4 BIL #722 MOTORCYCLES

Mangal Prabhat Lodha T


$2.3 BIL #771 REAL ESTATE

Smita Crishna-Godrej 
$2.2 BIL #810 DIVERSIFIED

WEALTH STATUS: UP S DOWN TUNCHANGED X NEW + RETURNEE 3 DIVIDED FORTUNE 


WINE-GROWING REGION

TECH CENTER

PLAYGROUND

OIL & GAS FIELDS AND DEPOSITS

FINANCIAL CENTER

MARCH 21, 2016 FORBES | 107

THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES


Ashwin Dani T

B.R. Shetty S

Vivek Chand Burman T

Devendra Jain T

$2.2 BIL #810 PAINTS

$1.8 BIL #1011 HEALTH CARE

$1.2 BIL #1476 CHEMICALS

Adi Godrej 

Lachhman Das Mittal S

$1.4 BIL #1275 CONSUMER


GOODS

$2.2 BIL #810 CONSUMER GOODS

$1.7 BIL #1067 TRACTORS

Balkrishan Goenka +

$1.2 BIL #1476 JEWELRY

Jamshyd Godrej 

Nirav Modi T

$2.2 BIL #810 CONSUMER GOODS

$1.7 BIL #1067 DIAMOND


JEWELRY

T.S. Kalyanaraman S

IRELAND

$1.7 BIL #1067 EDUCATION

Anand Burman T

$1.1 BIL #1577 JEWELRY

GDP: $230.8 BIL


POPULATION: 5 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 6 (+1 VS.
2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $30.7
BIL (+$400 MIL VS. 2015)

$2.2 BIL #810 MEDIA

Leena Tewari +

$1.3 BIL #1367 CONSUMER


GOODS

Chirayu Amin +

$1.7 BIL #1067


PHARMACEUTICALS

Harsh Goenka X

$1.1 BIL #1577


PHARMACEUTICALS

Pallonji Mistry T

Rishad Naoroji T

Nadir Godrej 
$2.2 BIL #810 DIVERSIFIED

Kalanithi Maran T

$2.2 BIL #810 CONSUMER GOODS

Murali Divi S
$2 BIL #906 PHARMACEUTICALS

Chandru Raheja T

$1.4 BIL #1275 TEXTILES

Radhe Shyam Agarwal T


$1.3 BIL #1367 CONSUMER
GOODS

Ranjan Pai X

Senapathy Gopalakrishnan &


family T
$1.6 BIL #1121 SOFTWARE
SERVICES

$1.3 BIL #1367 DIVERSIFIED

Radhe Shyam Goenka T


$1.3 BIL #1367 CONSUMER
GOODS

Ravi Jaipuria T

Yusuf Hamied T

Baba Kalyani T

$1.6 BIL #1121 SOFT DRINKS

$1.3 BIL #1367


PHARMACEUTICALS

Satish Mehta +

N.R. Narayana Murthy &


family T

$1.6 BIL #1121


PHARMACEUTICALS

$1.2 BIL #1476 CONSUMER


GOODS

Joy Alukkas 4

Achal Bakeri S
$1.1 BIL #1577 AIR COOLERS

Sanjiv Goenka T
$1.1 BIL #1577 DIVERSIFIED

$2 BIL #906 REAL ESTATE


$1.9 BIL #959 ENGINEERING

Kishore Mariwala S

Anil Agarwal T
$1.2 BIL #1476 MINING, METALS

Vinod Gupta T
$1.1 BIL #1577 ELECTRICAL
EQUIPMENT

Anand Mahindra T

Karsanbhai Patel +

$1.2 BIL #1476 FLIPKART

S.D. Shibulal T

Hasmukh Chudgar S

$1.6 BIL #1121 CONSUMER GOODS

K. Dinesh & family T

$1.1 BIL #1577 SOFTWARE


SERVICES

$1.2 BIL #1476 SOFTWARE


SERVICES

Niranjan Hiranandani T

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala T

Abhay Firodia S

$1.8 BIL #1011 INVESTMENTS

Azad Moopen S

Ajay Piramal T

$1.5 BIL #1198 HEALTH CARE

$1.8 BIL #1011


PHARMACEUTICALS

$1.2 BIL #1476 AUTOMOBILES

Jitendra Virwani T

John Dorrance III S


$2.7 BIL #638 CAMPBELL SOUP

Dermot Desmond S
$1.9 BIL #959 FINANCE

$1.1 BIL #1577 REAL ESTATE

Sachin Bansal +

$1.5 BIL #1198 CONSUMER


GOODS

$5.7 BIL #219 TELECOM

$1.6 BIL #1121 HEATING


EQUIPMENT

$1.9 BIL #959 EDUCATION

Harsh Mariwala S

Denis OBrien T

Martin Naughton T

$1.2 BIL #1476 FLIPKART

$1.8 BIL #1011


PHARMACEUTICALS

$6.3 BIL #184 PRIVATE EQUITY

Mofatraj Munot T

Binny Bansal +

$1.6 BIL #1121 SOFTWARE


SERVICES

Sunny Varkey T

John Grayken 

$1.1 BIL #1577 AUTOMOBILES

Nandan Nilekani & family T

$1.9 BIL #959 SOFTWARE


SERVICES

$12.5 BIL #73 CONSTRUCTION

Sameer Gehlaut T
$1.2 BIL #1476 FINANCE

$1 BIL #1694 REAL ESTATE


$1 BIL #1694 REAL ESTATE

Habil Khorakiwala T
$1 BIL #1694 PHARMACEUTICALS

$1.5 BIL #1198 REAL ESTATE

INDONESIA
GDP: $858.7 BIL
POPULATION: 258 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 20 (2 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $49.8 BIL ($5 BIL VS. 2015)
NE WCOME R

Abdul Rasyid
Rasyid became a billionaire as shares in his palm
plantation outt, Sawit Sumbermas Sarana, rose
on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. Environmental activists once claimed an earlier business plundered forests in the Tanjung Puting National Park;
they also alleged that when they went to investigate
in 2000 they were attacked by employees. Rasyid,
who is a former member of parliament, denied any
wrongdoing.

MAETH

Surendra Hiranandani T

EXPATRIATES
2

DUBLIN
3

R. Budi Hartono T

Ciputra & family T

$8.1 BIL #141 BANKING, TOBACCO

$1.5 BIL #1198 REAL ESTATE

Michael Hartono T

Soegiarto Adikoesoemo 4

$7.9 BIL #146 BANKING, TOBACCO

$1.4 BIL #1275 CHEMICALS

Chairul Tanjung S

Theodore Rachmat T

$4.9 BIL #286 DIVERSIFIED

$1.4 BIL #1275 DIVERSIFIED

Sri Prakash Lohia T

Djoko Susanto S

$4.2 BIL #358 POLYESTER

$1.3 BIL #1367 RETAIL

Bachtiar Karim S

Sukanto Tanoto T

$3.2 BIL #527 MANUFACTURING

$1.3 BIL #1367 DIVERSIFIED

Mochtar Riady & family T

Abdul Rasyid 

$2.1 BIL #854 DIVERSIFIED

$1.1 BIL #1577 TIMBER

Tahir S

Martua Sitorus T

$2 BIL #906 DIVERSIFIED

$1.1 BIL #1577 PALM OIL

Murdaya Poo S

Husain Djojonegoro &


family T

$1.9 BIL #959 DIVERSIFIED

Peter Sondakh T
$1.8 BIL #1011 INVESTMENTS

Eddy Kusnadi
Sariaatmadja S
$1.6 BIL #1121 MEDIA, TECH

$1 BIL #1694 CONSUMER GOODS

Achmad Hamami & family T


$1 BIL #1694 HEAVY EQUIPMENT

Low Tuck Kwong X


$1 BIL #1694 COAL

JAKARTA
12
SURABAYA
KUDUS

BALI
SUMBAWA

EXPATRIATES
4

SUMBA

WEALTH STATUS: UP S DOWN TUNCHANGED X NEW + RETURNEE 3 DIVIDED FORTUNE 


WINE-GROWING REGION

108 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

TECH CENTER

PLAYGROUND

OIL & GAS FIELDS AND DEPOSITS

FINANCIAL CENTER

AHMAD ZAMRONI/FORBES INDONESIA

MEDAN

TEFEN

THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES

ISRAEL

Shaul Shani S

GDP: $295.5 BIL


POPULATION: 8 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 17
TOTAL NET WORTH: $48.2
BIL ($6 BIL VS. 2015)

$2.7 BIL #638 REAL ESTATE

LEV LEVIEV

Yitzhak Tshuva T
Gil Shwed X
$2.2 BIL #810 SOFTWARE

Marius Nacht T
$1.7 BIL #1067 SOFTWARE

Eyal Ofer T

Alexander Machkevich T

$8.4 BIL #135 REAL ESTATE,


SHIPPING

$1.5 BIL #1198 MINING, METALS

Adam Neumann 

Stef Wertheimer & family X

$1.5 BIL #1198 WEWORK

$5.6 BIL #228 METALWORKING


TOOLS

Mori Arkin X
$1.3 BIL #1367
PHARMACEUTICALS

Arnon Milchan T
$5 BIL #270 MOVIEMAKING

Dan Gertler T

Shari Arison T

$1.2 BIL #1476 MINING

$3.9 BIL #392 CARNIVAL


CRUISES

Morris Kahn X
$1 BIL #1694 SOFTWARE

Idan Ofer T
$3.7 BIL #421 DRILLING,
SHIPPING

Lev Leviev T

Teddy Sagi X

Beny Steinmetz T

$1 BIL #1694 DIAMONDS

$3.3 BIL #495 GAMBLING


SOFTWARE

$1 BIL #1694 MINING, DIAMONDS,


REAL ESTATE

ITALY

BEIT YANAY

NE WS M A K E R

$3.2 BIL #527 TELECOM

HERZLIYA PITUACH
BNEI BRAK

Levievs diamond
empire, extending
from African
mines to luxury
storefronts, has
attracted celebrity
clientsand
controversy. When
Oprah sported
Leviev diamond
earrings on Os
May 2015 cover,
activists petitioned
the billionaire
media star to
distance herself
from the company
because of its alleged human rights abuses in
Angola and the Palestinian territories. These same
activists also asked Taylor Swift to shake off
Leviev after she wore one of his diamond necklaces
for Vanity Fairs September 2015 issue.

PETAH TIKVA
TEL AVIV
5

EXPATRIATES
5

WEALTH
ORIGIN

CORTINA

14%

LAKE COMO
GDP: $1.8 TRIL
POPULATION: 61 MIL
COMO
BILLIONAIRES: 43 (+4 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $150.8 BIL
($5 BIL VS. 2015)

TURIN

49%

BERGAMO
MONZA

MILAN
16

DOMICILE
UNKNOWN
1

TREVISO
5

Miuccia Prada

PARMA
4

NEWCO MER

PIERO FERRARI

CASETTE DETE

TUSCANY

37%

B IG G E ST LOS E R

MODENA
2

Piero, the illegitimate son of


Enzo Ferrari and longtime
mistress Lina Lardi, is sole
heir to the Ferrari fortune.
Enzos rst son, who was
originally groomed to take
over the company, died
from muscular dystrophy.
Piero was reportedly not
officially recognized as
part of the family until the
death of Enzos wife in 1978.
Today he is vice chairman
of the renowned luxury
sports car company, which
went public in October.

SILICON WADI

NETANYA

INHERITED & GROWING


INHERITED
SELF-MADE

The famed fashion designer and


her husband, Patrizio Bertelli, coCEOs of Prada, each lost $1.8 billion, or 44% of their net worth, in
the past year as shares of the luxury brand unraveled. A slowdown
in luxury spending combined with
already weak earnings in China, a
critical market, pushed shares to
historic lows in January.

SANTELPIDIO A
MARE

TOP SECTORS
22
FASHION & RETAIL
9
FOOD & BEVERAGE
4
HEALTH CARE
2
AUTOMOTIVE
2
ENERGY

Maria Franca Fissolo


& family T
$22.1 BIL #30 NUTELLA,
CHOCOLATES

Leonardo Del Vecchio T


$18.7 BIL #37 EYEGLASSES

Stefano Pessina S
$13.4 BIL #62 DRUGSTORES

Massimiliana Landini Aleotti


& family T
$10.1 BIL #101 PHARMACEUTICALS

Silvio Berlusconi & family T


$6.2 BIL #188 MEDIA

ROME
3

Giorgio Armani T
$6.1 BIL #196 LUXURY GOODS

SARDINIA

Augusto & Giorgio Perfetti T


$5.7 BIL #219 CANDY

Giuseppe DeLonghi S

CAPRI

$3.4 BIL #477 COFFEEMAKERS

B IG G E ST G A I N E R

EXPATRIATES
4

Pessina took over as CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance in July


2015 with a bang, announcing a
$17.2 billion takeover of rival Rite
Aid less than four months into
the job. The deal, which helped
boost his fortune by $1.3 billion
in the past year, was nothing new
for Pessina, who made his way
to the top of the worlds largest
drugstore chain after stringing
together more than 1,500 acquisitions throughout his career.

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THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES

ITALY
Paolo & Gianfelice Mario
Rocca T

Giuliana Benetton T

Paolo Barilla 

Luigi Cremonini & family S

Nicola Bulgari T

$2.8 BIL #612 FASHION,


INVESTMENTS

$2 BIL #906 PASTA

$1.4 BIL #1275 MEAT


PROCESSING

$1.2 BIL #1476 LUXURY GOODS

Luciano Benetton T

$2 BIL #906 FINANCIAL


SERVICES

Pier Luigi Loro Piana S

$1.2 BIL #1476 LUXURY GOODS

Luigi Rovati & family S

Massimo Moratti S

$1.9 BIL #959


PHARMACEUTICALS

$1.4 BIL #1275 OIL REFINERY

Mario Moretti Polegato


& family T

$1.4 BIL #1275 FASHION

$3.4 BIL #477 PIPE


MANUFACTURING

$2.8 BIL #612 FASHION,


INVESTMENTS

Rosa Anna Magno


Garavoglia & family S

Bernardo Caprotti S

Ennio Doris & family T

$2.4 BIL #722 SUPERMARKETS

$3.3 BIL #495 SPIRITS

Patrizio Bertelli T

Renzo Rosso X

$2.3 BIL #771 LUXURY GOODS

$3.2 BIL #527 FASHION


$2.8 BIL #612 FASHION,
INVESTMENTS

Alberto Bombassei S

Emanuella Barilla 

$1.6 BIL #1121 AUTOMOTIVE


BRAKES

$2 BIL #906 PASTA

Gilberto Benetton T

Guido Barilla 

$2.8 BIL #612 FASHION,


INVESTMENTS

$2 BIL #906 PASTA

Luca Barilla 

7
6
TECHNOLOGY
4
GAMBLING, CASINOS

INHERITED & GROWING


INHERITED
SELF-MADE

Francesco Gaetano
Caltagirone T

Stefano Gabbana T

$1.6 BIL #1121 DIVERSIFIED

Gian Marco Moratti S

Marina Prada T
$1 BIL #1694 LUXURY GOODS

$1.3 BIL #1367 LUXURY GOODS


$1.3 BIL #1367 OIL REFINERY

EXPATRIATES
2

AKIRA MORI

FASHION & RETAIL

78%

Alberto Prada T
$1 BIL #1694 LUXURY GOODS

$1.3 BIL #1367 LUXURY GOODS

Japans ultralow interest rates spurred


more property investment from his Mori
Trust, which owns 96
commercial and apartment buildings along
with 32 hotels. Mori,
whose fortune is up
$1.2 billion in the past
year, has been investing in new buildings,
demolishing old ones
and upgrading hotels
ahead of the 2020
Tokyo Olympics.

TOP SECTORS

7%

Piero Ferrari 
$1 BIL #1694 AUTOMOBILES

Domenico Dolce T

B IG G E ST G A I N E R

GDP: $4.1 TRIL


POPULATION: 127 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 27 (+3 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $85.4 BIL
($12.4 BIL VS. 2015)

15%

Remo Ruffini T

$1.6 BIL #1121 SHOES

JAPAN
WEALTH
ORIGIN

Gustavo Denegri S

Diego Della Valle T

$2 BIL #906 PASTA

Andrea Della Valle T

$1.1 BIL #1577 WINTER JACKETS

$1.3 BIL #1367 MEDICAL TESTS

$2.3 BIL #771 LUXURY GOODS

Paolo Bulgari T

$1.2 BIL #1476 SHOES

Sandro Veronesi T

$1.8 BIL #1011 SHOES

Miuccia Prada T

Carlo Benetton T

$1.4 BIL #1275 FASHION

3
MANUFACTURING

N E WS M A K E R
HOKKAIDO

Kazuo Okada
Luck may be turning for Okada, former
partner of American casino billionaire
Steve Wynn. Okadas casino development in Manila has faced regulatory delays but is now on track for completion
this year. Okada was forced to sell his
stake in Wynn Resorts in 2012 at a discount after Wynn accused him of bribery. Okada denies wrongdoing.

3
REAL ESTATE

R IC HE ST

Tadashi Yanai
Yanai holds on to the top spot in Japan, despite
losing $5.6 billion, more than anyone else in his
country. Most of his fortune is tied up in shares of
his Fast Retailing. The company, best known for
its Uniqlo brand, had to cut its revenue forecasts
as warm weather melted sales of its cold-weather gear. Analysts are also apparently skeptical of
its plans to expand into U.S. suburbs. Ever the
optimist, Yanai is predicting Fast Retailing will be
the worlds largest apparel retailer by 2020.

IBARAKI

Tadashi Yanai & family T

Yusaku Maezawa S

$14.6 BIL #57 RETAIL

$1.6 BIL #1121 ONLINE RETAIL

Masayoshi Son T

Katsumi Tada S

$11.7 BIL #82 INTERNET,


TELECOM

$1.6 BIL #1121 REAL ESTATE

Takemitsu Takizaki T

$1.3 BIL #1367 RETAIL

$7.2 BIL #163 SENSORS

Hiroshi Mikitani T
TOKYO
19

KYOTO
2
KANSAI SCIENCE CITY

OSAKA

YOKOSUKA
RESEARCH
PARK

$1.2 BIL #1476 SMARTPHONE


GAMES

Akira Mori & family S

Hideyuki Busujima 

$4.9 BIL #286 REAL ESTATE

$1.1 BIL #1577 PACHINKO


MACHINES

$4.0 BIL #380 PACHINKO


PARLORS

Soichiro Fukutake X

Masatoshi Ito S

Kazuo Okada & family T

$3.6 BIL #435 RETAIL

$1.1 BIL #1577 CASINOS

Masahiro Miki S

Yoshiyuki Sankai S

$3.5 BIL #453 RETAIL

$1.1 BIL #1577 ROBOTICS

Keiichiro Takahara & family T

Nobutoshi Shimamura
& family 4

$3.5 BIL #453 DIAPERS


NE WS M A K E R

HIROSHI MIKITANI
Ride-sharing app Lyfts valuation got a lift when Hiroshi
Mikitanis e-commerce rm,
Rakuten, invested $300 million in the Uber competitor in
March 2015. The nearly 12%
stake earned Mikitani a seat on
Lyfts board, which he joined
in June.

Kunio Busujima & family 

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PLAYGROUND

OIL & GAS FIELDS AND DEPOSITS

$1.1 BIL #1577 RETAIL

Kenji Kasahara T

Yoshiko Mori X

Masahiro Noda 4

$2.5 BIL #688 REAL ESTATE

$1 BIL #1694 SOFTWARE

Shigenobu Nagamori T

Nobutada Saji X

$2.2 BIL #810 MOTORS

$1 BIL #1694 BEVERAGES

Akio Nitori S

Yoshikazu Tanaka T

$2 BIL #906 RETAIL

$1 BIL #1694 SOCIAL NETWORK

Yasumitsu Shigeta S

WEALTH STATUS: UP S DOWN TUNCHANGED X NEW + RETURNEE 3 DIVIDED FORTUNE 


TECH CENTER

$1.1 BIL #1577 EDUCATION

$2.9 BIL #595 PACHINKO


MACHINES

$2 BIL #906 MOBILE TELECOM

WINE-GROWING REGION

Naruatsu Baba T

$5.6 BIL #228 ONLINE RETAIL

Han Chang-Woo & family T


CHIBA

Takao Yasuda T

FINANCIAL CENTER

$1 BIL #1694 SOCIAL NETWORK

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THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES

LEBANON

KAZAKHSTAN

LIECHTENSTEIN

GDP: $54 BIL


POPULATION: 6 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 7
TOTAL NET WORTH: $12.5
BIL ($1.6 BIL VS. 2015)

GDP: $191.8 BIL


POPULATION: 17 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 5
TOTAL NET WORTH: $9.3 BIL
($1.5 BIL VS. 2015)

GDP: $5.5 BIL


POPULATION: 37,000
BILLIONAIRES: 1
(+1 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $2.5
BIL (+$2.5 BIL VS. 2015)

ASTANA

ALMATY
4

Najib Mikati T

Christoph Zeller T

$2.5 BIL #688 TELECOM

Bulat Utemuratov T

Taha Mikati T

$2.3 BIL #771 MINING, BANKING,


HOTELS

$2.5 BIL #688 TELECOM

Timur Kulibaev T

Alijan Ibragimov T

$2.2 BIL #810 REAL ESTATE,


INVESTMENTS, LOGISTICS

$2 BIL #906 BANKING

$1.5 BIL #1198 MINING, METALS

Dinara Kulibaeva T

Vladimir Kim T

Robert Mouawad & family S

$2 BIL #906 BANKING

$1.5 BIL #1198 MINING

Bahaa Hariri T

VADUZ

$2.5 BIL #688 DENTAL IMPLANTS

$1.5 BIL #1198 FINE JEWELRY


$1.4 BIL #1275 CONSTRUCTION,
INVESTMENTS

Ayman Hariri S
$1.2 BIL #1476 CONSTRUCTION,
INVESTMENTS

Fahd Hariri S
$1.2 BIL #1476 CONSTRUCTION,
INVESTMENTS

MEXICO

$50 BIL #4 TELECOM

German Larrea Mota Velasco


& family T
$9.2 BIL #121 MINING

GDP: $1.1 TRIL


POPULATION: 127 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 14 (2 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $99.6 BIL ($44.8 BIL VS. 2015)
WEALTH
ORIGIN
36%

Alberto Bailleres Gonzalez


& family T
$6.9 BIL #170 MINING

Eva Gonda de Rivera


& family T
$6.1 BIL #196 BEVERAGES

TOP SECTORS
3
FOOD & BEVERAGE
2
FASHION & RETAIL

21%
43%

RI CH E ST

Carlos Slim Helu

2
FINANCE & INVEST
2
METALS & MINING

INHERITED & GROWING


INHERITED
SELF-MADE

BEIRUT
3

Carlos Slim Helu & family T

Shares of his pan-Latin American


mobile phone operator, Amrica
Mvil, fell 42% in dollar terms in the
wake of new telecom regulations, a
weaker peso and Brazils downturn.
That drove the $27.1 billion drop in
Slims net worth, making him the
biggest dollar loser on this years
list. Despite the drop he remains, at
$50 billion, the fourth-richest man
in the world, down two spots from
last year.

EXPATRIATES
4

NEWSMA KER

Robert
Mouawad

Maria Asuncion
Aramburuzabala & family T
$5.5 BIL #233 BEER,
INVESTMENTS

Jeronimo Arango & family S


$4.4 BIL #338 RETAIL

Ricardo Salinas Pliego


& family T
$4.3 BIL #351 RETAIL, MEDIA

Antonio Del Valle Ruiz


& family T
$2.6 BIL #666 CHEMICALS

Emilio Azcarraga Jean T


$2.1 BIL #854 TV BROADCASTING

Carlos Hank Rhon T


$2.1 BIL #854 BANKING

Jose & Francisco Jose


Calderon Rojas T
$2 BIL #906 BEVERAGES

Luxury jeweler Mouawad


showcased a $2 million
Fantasy Bra worn by
model Lily Aldridge at
the 2015 Victorias Secret
Fashion Show, encrusted
with over 6,800 precious
stones, including diamonds, topaz, sapphires
and pink quartz. It was
the 14th year that the jeweler has designed a multimillion-dollar bra for the
high-prole show.

Roberto Hernandez
Ramirez T
$1.7 BIL #1067 BANKING

David Penaloza Alanis S


$1.5 BIL #1198 TOLL ROADS

Alfredo Harp Helu


& family T
$1.2 BIL #1476 BANKING

LOS CABOS

MONTERREY
2
SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE
HOLBOX

NE WS MA K E R

Ricardo Salinas Pliego

TULUM

After the success Salinas Pliego had in early 2015


with the sale of mobile phone company Iusacell to
AT&T for $2.5 billion, the mogul lost nearly half
his fortune as shares of TV Azteca, Mexicos second-largest broadcaster, plunged. Like its rival
Televisa, it is facing new challenges in the wake of
sluggish demand for advertising. In what some say
was an attempt to give his agging company a jolt,
in October he named his son, Benjamin Salinas
Sada, 32, as CEO.

MEXICO
CITY
11

PUNTA MITA

EXPATRIATE
1

WEALTH STATUS: UP S DOWN TUNCHANGED X NEW + RETURNEE 3 DIVIDED FORTUNE 


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THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES

MALAYSIA

MONACO

Robert Kuok T
$10 BIL #103 DIVERSIFIED

Ananda Krishnan T

WEALTH
ORIGIN

GDP: $295.4 BIL


POPULATION: 30 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 10 (2 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $39.5 BIL
($9.4 BIL VS. 2015)

Quek Leng Chan T

20%

$5.3 BIL #248 BANKING,


REAL ESTATE

Teh Hong Piow T

80%

$4.7 BIL #308 BANKING

INHERITED & GROWING


INHERITED
SELF-MADE

Lee Shin Cheng X

MONACO

$2.3 BIL #771 CONSTRUCTION,


REAL ESTATE

DIVERSIFIED

Robert Kuok

MONTE CARLO

Yeoh Tiong Lay T

R ICHEST

MONTE CARLO

$4.6 BIL #317 PALM OIL,


REAL ESTATE

TOP SECTORS

2
MANUFACTURING

One of Asias most respected entrepreneurs, Kuok, 92, sold his media businesswhich included a stake in Hong
Kongs leading English-language paper,
the South China Morning Post, and the
Hong Kong editions of Esquire, Elle,
Cosmopolitan, Harpers Bazaar and
other titlesto Alibaba for $265 million
in December. Kuok had rst purchased
a 35% share in the now 112-year-old
newspaper from Rupert Murdoch
in 1993.

GDP: $6.2 BIL


POPULATION: 37,000
BILLIONAIRES: 4 (+1 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $7.1 BIL
(+$2.4 BIL VS. 2015)

$7.4 BIL #158 TELECOM

EXPATRIATES
2

Lau Cho Kun S

1
FINANCE & INVEST

$1.6 BIL #1121 PALM OIL,


REAL ESTATE

1
TELECOM

Tatiana Casiraghi S

Syed Mokhtar AlBukhary T

$2.4 BIL #722 BEER

$1.5 BIL #1198 DIVERSIFIED

David Nahmad S

Kuan Kam Hon 

$1.9 BIL #959 ART

$1.1 BIL #1577 SYNTHETIC GLOVES

Ezra Nahmad X

Tiong Hiew King T

$1.5 BIL #1198 ART

$1 BIL #1694 TIMBER, MEDIA

Lily Safra X
$1.3 BIL #1367 BANKING
N E WS M A K E R

TATIANA CASIRAGHI

JERAM

TAWAU
KUALA
LUMPUR
6

An heiress to the South American Santo


Domingo beer fortune, Casiraghi married the son of Monacos Princess Caroline,
Andrea Casiraghi, in 2013. She gave birth to
a baby girl in April. The baby is sixth in line
to the Monegasque throne.

SIBU
EXPATRIATE
1

NETHERLANDS
GDP: $750.2 BIL
POPULATION: 17 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 9
TOTAL NET WORTH: $28.2 BIL (+$700 MIL VS. 2015)
Charlene de CarvalhoHeineken & family S

John de Mol T

$12.3 BIL #76 HEINEKEN

Ralph Sonnenberg &


family X

Frits Goldschmeding T

AMSTERDAM
BLARICUM

$1.5 BIL #1198 TV

SCHIEDAM

$3.9 BIL #392 TEMP AGENCY

$1.5 BIL #1198 BLINDS

Carolus Nolet Sr. S

Wim Van Der Leegte T

$2.6 BIL #666 KETEL ONE VODKA

$1.3 BIL #1367 MANUFACTURING

Hans Melchers S

Joop van den Ende T

$2.4 BIL #722 CHEMICALS,


INVESTMENTS

BAARN

VORDEN

GORINCHEM

$1 BIL #1694 TV
EINDHOVEN

Kommer Damen S

EXPATRIATES
2

$1.7 BIL #1067 SHIPBUILDING

MOROCCO

CASABLANCA
2

GDP: $104.5 BIL


POPULATION: 34 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 2 (1 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $3.2 BIL
($2.1 BIL VS. 2015)

CASABLANCA

Othman Benjelloun T
$1.9 BIL # 959 BANKING, INSURANCE

Aziz Akhannouch & family T


GETTY IMAGES

$1.3 BIL #1367 PETROLEUM, DIVERSIFIED

WEALTH STATUS: UP S DOWN TUNCHANGED X NEW + RETURNEE 3 DIVIDED FORTUNE 


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THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES

NORWAY
GDP: $391.5 BIL
POPULATION: 5 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 13 (+3 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $24.8 BIL
($200 MIL VS. 2015)

31%

31%

NEPAL

38%
INHERITED & GROWING
INHERITED
SELF-MADE

GDP: $20.7 BIL


POPULATION: 29 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 1
TOTAL NET WORTH: 1.1
($200 MIL VS. 2015)

TOP SECTORS
4
DIVERSIFIED
3
FASHION & RETAIL
2
FINANCE & INVEST

Binod Chaudhary & family T

2
LOGISTICS

Odd Reitan T

$1.1 BIL #1577 DIVERSIFIED

1
FOOD & BEVERAGE

$4.2 BIL #358 RETAIL, REAL


ESTATE

Andreas Halvorsen S

KVERVA

$3.1 BIL #549 HEDGE FUNDS

KATHMANDU
N E WS M A K E R

Johan Johannson T

Stein Erik Hagen

$2.5 BIL #688 GROCERY STORES

Caroline Hagen Kjos 


$2.2 BIL #810 ORKLA

In October, in a televised interview seen


by millions in Norway and Sweden, discount supermarket billionaire Hagen
openly talked about being gay for the
rst time, using the interview to lobby
the state church to allow gay weddings.
Hagen, who built a fortune in supermarkets, transferred almost all the ownership in his investment company, Canica
AS, to his daughter Caroline, 32, in 2014,
and also made her chairman.

EXPATRIATES
4

Stein Erik Hagen T


$2.1 BIL #854 RETAIL

Arne Wilhelmsen & family T


$2.1 BIL #854 CRUISE SHIPS
TRONDHEIM

Kjell Inge Rokke T


$1.6 BIL #1121 SHIPPING,
SEAFOOD

Petter Stordalen T

OMAN
GDP: $63.3 BIL
POPULATION: 4 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 1
(1 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $1.5
BIL ($700 MIL VS. 2015)

$1.4 BIL #1275 HOTELS

P.N.C. Menon S

Alexandra Andresen 

$1.5 BIL #1198 REAL ESTATE

N E WCO M E R

$1.2 BIL #1476 INVESTMENTS

ALEXANDRA ANDRESEN

Katharina Andresen 
$1.2 BIL #1476 INVESTMENTS

Gjert Wilhelmsen & family T


$1.1 BIL #1577 CRUISE SHIPS

Gustav Magnar Witzoe 

OSLO
7

$1.1 BIL #1577 FISH FARMING

Alexander Vik T
$1 BIL #1694 INVESTMENTS

The world has a new youngest billionaire: 19-year-old Norwegian


heiress Alexandra Andresen, who is busy collecting trophies in
horseback riding. Her sister, Katharina, 20, is the second youngest. Each owns 42% of Ferd, the family conglomerate run by their
father. Norways tax policy seems to have hastened the transfer of
wealth. Yet another young Norwegian, Gustav Magnar Witzoe,
22, who inherited shares in the SalMar sh-farm company, is the
third-youngest billionaire on earth.

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NIGERIA

NEW ZEALAND

GDP: $492.3 BIL


POPULATION: 182 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 5
TOTAL NET WORTH: $29.9 BIL
(+$7 BIL VS. 2015)

GDP: $167 BIL


POPULATION: 5 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 2
TOTAL NET WORTH: $9.1
BIL ($800 MIL VS. 2015)

AUCKLAND

Aliko Dangote S
$15.4 BIL #51 CEMENT, SUGAR, FLOUR

Graeme Hart T

Mike Adenuga S

$6.4 BIL #178 INVESTMENTS

$10 BIL #103 TELECOM, OIL

Richard Chandler T

Femi Otedola S

CAPE KIDNAPPERS

LAGOS
5

$1.6 BIL #1121 OIL

Abdulsamad Rabiu S
$1.1 BIL #1577 CEMENT, SUGAR
NE WS MA KE R

Abdulsamad Rabiu
In January his BUA Group, a food and cement conglomerate, sold its our-milling and pasta businesses to Olam
International of Singapore for $275 million. Rabiu said the
sale is part of his plan to shift the company more into exportoriented businesses that can be driven with materials sourced
in Nigeria. Import-dependent businesses like Rabius sugar
reneries have been hit by the weakened Nigerian naira.

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WINE-GROWING REGION

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$2.7 BIL #638 INVESTMENTS

$1.8 BIL #1011 GAS STATIONS, UTILITIES

Folorunsho Alakija T

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WEALTH
ORIGIN

THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES

36%

PHILIPPINES

PERU
GDP: $189.3 BIL
POPULATION: 31 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 3 (3 VS.
2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $3.8
BIL ($5 BIL VS. 2015)

GDP: $293 BIL


POPULATION: 102 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 11
TOTAL NET WORTH: $41.5 BIL ($9.8 BIL VS. 2015)

Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor T

Henry Sy & family T

LIMA
3

$1.6 BIL #1121 FINANCE

Eduardo Belmont Anderson T

2
FASHION & RETAIL
1
CONSTRUCTION & ENGR

1
FINANCE & INVEST
1
LOGISTICS
1
REAL ESTATE

George Ty & family T


$3.7 BIL #421 BANKING

POLAND
GDP: $471.7 BIL
POPULATION: 39 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 3 (2 VS.
2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $7.9
BIL ($3.6 BIL VS. 2015)

4
DIVERSIFIED

John Gokongwei Jr. T

$4 BIL #380 DIVERSIFIED

$1.1 BIL #1577 MINING, BANKING

TOP SECTORS

1
ENERGY

Lucio Tan & family T

Ana Maria Brescia Cafferata T

INHERITED & GROWING


INHERITED
SELF-MADE

$12.9 BIL #71 DIVERSIFIED


$5 BIL #270 DIVERSIFIED

$1.1 BIL #1577 COSMETICS

64%

David Consunji T

SCIENCE CITY OF MUOZ

$3 BIL #569 CONSTRUCTION

Dominika & Sebastian Kulczyk 

Andrew Tan T

$3.6 BIL #435 DIVERSIFIED

$3 BIL #569 DIVERSIFIED

Zygmunt Solorz-Zak T

Tony Tan Caktiong


& family S

$2.5 BIL #688 TV BROADCASTING

MANILA
11

$3 BIL #569 FAST FOOD

Michal Solowow T

Enrique Razon Jr. T

$1.8 BIL #1011 INVESTMENTS

$2.4 BIL #722 PORTS

Lucio & Susan Co T


$1.6 BIL #1121 RETAIL

Robert Coyiuto Jr. T

PALAWAN

$1.6 BIL #1121 POWER

Manuel Villar T
$1.3 BIL #1367 REAL ESTATE
WARSAW
2

KIELCE

PORTUGAL
OPORTO
GRIJ

GDP: $198.9 BIL


POPULATION: 10 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 3
TOTAL NET WORTH: $7.8
BIL ($400 MIL VS. 2015)
Americo Amorim T

LISBON

$4.1 BIL #369 ENERGY,


INVESTMENTS

Alexandre Soares dos Santos


& family S
$2.1 BIL #854 RETAIL

DAVAO CITY

B IG G E ST G A I N E R

TONY TAN CAKTIONG


Tans Jollibee Foods, the biggest food chain
in the Philippines, bought a 40% stake in the
U.S. fast-growing fast-food chain Smashburger in October. Jollibee currently operates
and franchises over 3,000 restaurants under
several brands, including Red Ribbon and
Burger King Philippines.

Belmiro de Azevedo T

QATAR

ROMANIA

GDP: $192.7 BIL


POPULATION: 2 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 1 (+1 VS.
2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $2 BIL
(+$2 BIL VS. 2015)

GDP: $176.5 BIL


POPULATION: 20 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 1 (1 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $1 BIL
($1.15 BIL VS. 2015)

DOHA

Ion Tiriac X

Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani 

$1 BIL #1694 BANKING, INSURANCE

$2 BIL #906 HOTELS, DIVERSIFIED

BUCHAREST

WEALTH STATUS: UP S DOWN TUNCHANGED X NEW + RETURNEE 3 DIVIDED FORTUNE 


WINE-GROWING REGION

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$1.6 BIL #1121 RETAIL

PROMOTION

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KNOWS YACHTS.
This fact is evidenced by a client list that
reads like a Whos Who of the worlds
most highly successful individuals.
Raised by a yacht-broker father, Wood
lived on a boat for several years and sold
his rst one at 18 years old. Since launching
his company in 1988, Merle Wood &
Associates has surpassed expectations,
amassing well over $30 billion in yacht
deals to date and approaching more than
a $1 billion in sales this year.
Leading a team of astute sales professionals, CEO Wood is a master at expertly
navigating the yachting industry. His philosophy is simple: It is important to sell a
yacht that I know the client is going to be
happy with, so that he or she will return to

me to purchase their next boat and also


recommend their friends to us.
Wood learned at a young age, from
two very inuential clients, two important
adages that are the foundation of his philosophy and focus as a yacht broker: The
bitterness of poor quality remains long
after the sweetness of low price is forgotten; and Its not what it costs to buy, but
what it costs to sell. Wood uses these two
sayings to guide each client to the very
best yacht for their personal requirements.
Merle Wood largely attributes his
companys success to the strength of the
client relationships he works to establish
and maintain by closely following these
two adages. Give us a call, he says. Our
yachts are showcased in ports all around
the world, and many will be on display in
yacht shows throughout the year.

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We have established solid relationships


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ORIGIN

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RUSSIA

NEWSM A K E R

MIKHAIL PROKHOROV
The 6-foot-8 billionaire bought out the rest of the Brooklyn Nets and the Barclays Center in a deal that valued the
assets at $1.7 billion. Prokhorov, who already owned an
80% stake in the team and 45% of the arena, paid around
$285 million. Earlier in the year he left Civic Platform,
the Russian political party he created in 2012, because of
disagreements with its leadership.

GDP: $1.2 TRIL


POPULATION: 144 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 77 (11 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $282.6 BIL
($53.9 BIL VS. 2015)

INHERITED & GROWING


INHERITED
SELF-MADE

TOP SECTORS
17
ENERGY
14
FINANCE & INVEST
14
METALS & MINING
6
DIVERSIFIED
6
MANUFACTURING

ST. PETERSBURG
2

B IG G E ST LOS E R

Oleg
Deripaska
Once the worlds ninthrichest person, worth
$28 billion, Deripaska
lost $4.1 billion in the
past year and is down
to his last $2.1 billion. Shares in his main
asset, UC Rusal, one
of the worlds largest
aluminum producers,
nose-dived 62% in the
last year, as the company continues to deal
with falling commodity
prices, heavy debt and
conict among board
members.

SURGUT

MOSCOW
60

SOLIKAMSK

VERKHNIAYA
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MAGNITOGORSK

KRASNAYA
POLYANA

Leonid Mikhelson S
$14.4 BIL #60 GAS, CHEMICALS
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SOCHI

Mikhail Fridman T
$13.3 BIL #63 OIL, BANKING,
TELECOM

Alisher Usmanov T
$12.5 BIL #73 STEEL, TELECOM,
INVESTMENTS

N E WCO M E R

NEWSMA K E R

YURI MILNER
In July 2015 the tech investor launched Breakthrough Listen, a $100 million project to search for alien life. The biggest questions of our existence are at stake, he wrote in an
open letter cosigned by eminent physicist Stephen Hawking,
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane and others. Milner
was an early backer of Facebook and Twitter and later bet
on Spotify, Airbnb and Chinese tech companies. The former
physicist cofounded the annual Breakthrough Prize, which
gives $3 million awards to top scientists.

Kirill
Shamalov

Vladimir Potanin T

The nations youngest billionaire, Shamalov, 33, a former


economic advisor
to the Russian government, is married
to President Vladimir Putins daughter,
academic Katerina
Tikhonova, according
to sources. Officials
refuse to conrm
the marriage or that
she is Putins daughter. The son of Rossiya Bank shareholder Nikolai Shamalov,
a longtime friend of
Putin, Kirill is now
the second-largest
shareholder in petrochemical giant
Sibur, after Russias
richest man, Leonid
Mikhelson.

$11.4 BIL #85 OIL & GAS

$12.1 BIL #78 METALS

Gennady Timchenko S
Alexey Mordashov T
$10.9 BIL #93 STEEL,
INVESTMENTS

Viktor Vekselberg T
$10.5 BIL #98 METALS, ENERGY

Vladimir Lisin T
$9.3 BIL #116 STEEL, TRANSPORT

Vagit Alekperov T
$8.9 BIL #124 OIL

German Khan T
$8.7 BIL #128 OIL, BANKING,
TELECOM
RI CH E ST

Leonid Mikhelson
Russias new leading manthe
seventh number one in ten years
gained $2.7 billion while most
others crashed amid falling oil
prices and economic sanctions.
His fortune got a boost after Chinese state-owned Sinopec paid
$1.3 billion in December for 10%
of Sibur, the gas-processing and
petrochemical company that he
controls.

Andrey Melnichenko T
$8.2 BIL #139 COAL, FERTILIZER

Dmitry Rybolovlev T
$7.7 BIL #148 FERTILIZER

Roman Abramovich T
$7.6 BIL #151 STEEL,
INVESTMENTS

Mikhail Prokhorov T
$7.6 BIL #151 INVESTMENTS

Alexei Kuzmichev T
$6.7 BIL #173 OIL, BANKING,
TELECOM

Mikhail Gutseriev S
$5.9 BIL #205 OIL, REAL ESTATE

Sergei Galitsky T

WEALTH STATUS: UP S DOWN TUNCHANGED X NEW + RETURNEE 3 DIVIDED FORTUNE 


WINE-GROWING REGION

122 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

TECH CENTER

PLAYGROUND

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$5.7 BIL #219 RETAIL


FINANCIAL CENTER

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THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES

RUSSIA

Filaret Galchev T

Andrei Skoch T

Sait-Salam Gutseriev 

$5.3 BIL #248 STEEL

Pyotr Aven T
$4.6 BIL #317 OIL, BANKING,
TELECOM

Sergei Popov T

$1.5 BIL #1198 CONSTRUCTION


MATERIALS

SAUDI ARABIA

GDP: $680.3 BIL


POPULATION: 32 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 6 (4 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $34.6 BIL
($17.3 BIL VS. 2015)

$1.5 BIL #1198 OIL, BANKING,


REAL ESTATE

Farkhad Akhmedov X
$1.4 BIL #1275 NATURAL GAS

Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud T

Igor Altushkin T

$4.5 BIL #324 BANKING

$1.4 BIL #1275 METALS

$17.3 BIL #41 INVESTMENTS

Iskander Makhmudov S

Danil Khachaturov T

Mohammed Al Amoudi T

$4 BIL #380 MINING, METALS,


MACHINERY

$1.4 BIL #1275 INSURANCE,


BANKING, REAL ESTATE

Leonid Fedun T

Pyotr Kondrashev X

$3.9 BIL #392 OIL

$1.4 BIL #1275 FERTILIZER

Viktor Rashnikov S

Anatoly Lomakin X

$8.3 BIL #138 OIL, DIVERSIFIED


RIYADH
4

Sultan bin Mohammed bin Saud


Al Kabeer T
$3.4 BIL #477 DAIRY FARMS

JEDDAH
2

Mohammed Al Issa & family T

$3.8 BIL #403 STEEL

$1.4 BIL #1275 FERTILIZER

$2.3 BIL #771 INVESTMENTS

Alexander Abramov T

Aras Agalarov T

Saleh Kamel T

$3.6 BIL #435 STEEL, MINING

$1.2 BIL #1476 REAL ESTATE

$1.9 BIL #959 BANKING, HEALTH CARE

Andrei Guriev S

Vasily Anisimov T

Abdullah Al Rajhi & family T

$3.6 BIL #435 FERTILIZER

$1.2 BIL #1476 REAL ESTATE

Zarakh Iliev T

Leonid Boguslavsky 

$3.2 BIL #527 REAL ESTATE

$1.2 BIL #1476 VENTURE CAPITAL

God Nisanov T

Oleg Boyko T

$3.2 BIL #527 REAL ESTATE

$1.2 BIL #1476 DIVERSIFIED

Samvel Karapetyan T

Alexander Dzhaparidze T

$3.1 BIL #549 DEVELOPMENT

$1.2 BIL #1476 OIL SERVICES

Dmitry Kamenshchik T

Gleb Fetisov X

$2.9 BIL #595 AIRPORT

$1.2 BIL #1476 INVESTMENTS

Alexander Nesis S

Andrei Kosogov T

$2.9 BIL #595 METALS, BANKING,


FERTILIZER

$1.2 BIL #1476 OIL, BANKING,


TELECOM

Alexander Svetakov T

Lev Kvetnoi X

$2.9 BIL #595 BANKING,


REAL ESTATE

Yuri Milner T

$1.2 BIL #1476 REAL ESTATE

$2.8 BIL #612 FACEBOOK,


INVESTMENTS

Kirill Shamalov 

$2.5 BIL #688 FERTILIZER,


REAL ESTATE

Igor Kesaev T
$2.4 BIL #722 TOBACCO
DISTRIBUTION, RETAIL

Boris Mints T

$1.2 BIL #1476 PETROCHEMICALS

Elena Baturina S
$1.1 BIL #1577 CONSTRUCTION

Eugene Kaspersky S
$1.1 BIL #1577 SOFTWARE

Andrei Rappoport X

Andrei Kozitsyn S

$1.1 BIL #1577 INVESTMENTS

$2.4 BIL #722 METALS

Gavril Yushvaev T

Alexander Mamut T

$1.1 BIL #1577 PRECIOUS METALS,


REAL ESTATE

$2.4 BIL #722 INVESTMENTS

Vladimir Yevtushenkov T
$2.4 BIL #722 TELECOM

Vadim Moshkovich S
$2.3 BIL #771 AGRICULTURE

Alexander Ponomarenko T

Alexei Ananyev T
$1 BIL #1694 BANKING, IT,
REAL ESTATE

Dmitry Ananyev T
$1 BIL #1694 BANKING, IT,
REAL ESTATE

$2.3 BIL #771 PORTS

Roman Avdeev T

Alexander Skorobogatko T

$1 BIL #1694 BANKING,


DEVELOPMENT

$2.3 BIL #771 PORTS

Oleg Deripaska T
$2.1 BIL #854 ALUMINUM,
UTILITIES

Igor Makarov X

WEALTH
ORIGIN

SINGAPORE

6%
53%

GDP: $288.7 BIL


POPULATION: 6 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 17 (2 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $44.5 BIL ($9.1 BIL VS. 2015)

41%

INHERITED & GROWING


INHERITED
SELF-MADE

TOP SECTORS
8

$1.2 BIL #1476 CEMENT, AIRPORT

Viatcheslav Kantor S

$1.4 BIL #1275 BANKING

Valentin Gapontsev
& family T

REAL ESTATE
3
FINANCE & INVEST

SINGAPORE
16

NE WS M A K E R

Kwee
brothers
The four Kwee
brothers
Liong Keng,
Liong Tek,
Liong Seen and
Liong Phing
are making
their mark on
the U.S. Their
Pontiac Land
Group has partnered with real
estate rm
Hines and investment bank
Goldman Sachs
to build an 82story New York
City condo
tower, 53W53,
next door to
MoMA. It is slated for completion in 2018.

2
MANUFACTURING
1
ENERGY
MARINA BAY

EXPATRIATE
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N E WS M A K E R

1
FOOD & BEVERAGE
1
LOGISTICS

Goh Cheng Liang


Singapores second-richest man has a penchant for
luxury boats. The paint tycoon and his family have
reportedly built four yachts to date, all of which bear
the name White Rabbit. His son, Goh Hup Jin, is said
to have hired an Australian rm to build that nations
biggest yacht, at 276 feet. It will set sail in 2017.

$1 BIL #1694 LASERS

Robert & Philip Ng T

Viktor Kharitonin 4

Raj Kumar & Kishin RK S

Choo Chong Ngen S

$2.4 BIL #722 REAL ESTATE

$1.3 BIL #1367 HOTELS

Kuok Khoon Hong T

Asok Kumar Hiranandani T

$2.2 BIL #810 PALM OIL

$1.3 BIL #1367 REAL ESTATE

Peter Lim S

Zhong Sheng Jian S

$1 BIL #1694 INVESTMENTS

$5 BIL #270 PONTIAC LAND


GROUP

$2.1 BIL #854 INVESTMENTS

$1.2 BIL #1476 REAL ESTATE

Arkady Rotenberg T

Wee Cho Yaw T

Chang Yun Chung T

Oei Hong Leong S

$4.2 BIL #358 BANKING

$1.8 BIL #1011 SHIPPING

$1.1 BIL #1577 INVESTMENTS

Mikail Shishkhanov 

$1 BIL #1694 CONSTRUCTION,


PIPES, BANKING

$1.6 BIL #1121 OIL, BANKING,


REAL ESTATE

Boris Rotenberg 4

Kwek Leng Beng S

Sam Goi T

Koh Wee Meng T

$2.7 BIL #638 REAL ESTATE

$1.6 BIL #1121 FROZEN FOODS

Jason Chang T

Lim Oon Kuin T

$1 BIL #1694 REAL ESTATE,


HOTELS

$2.4 BIL #722 ELECTRONICS

$1.6 BIL #1121 OIL TRADING

$2.1 BIL #854 GAS

Yuri Sheer S
$1.9 BIL #959 ALCOHOL

Vladimir Bogdanov T
$1.7 BIL #1067 OIL

Suleiman Kerimov T
$1.6 BIL #1121 INVESTMENTS

Alexander Frolov T

$1 BIL #1694
PHARMACEUTICALS

$7.6 BIL #151 REAL ESTATE

Dmitry Pumpyansky 4

$5 BIL #270 PAINT

$1 BIL #1694 STEEL PIPES

Goh Cheng Liang T


Kwee family S

Megdet Rahimkulov 4

$1 BIL #1694 CONSTRUCTION,


PIPES, CHEMICALS

$1.5 BIL #1198 MINING, STEEL

WEALTH STATUS: UP S DOWN TUNCHANGED X NEW + RETURNEE 3 DIVIDED FORTUNE 


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124 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

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THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES

SOUTH AFRICA
N E WS M A K E R

GDP: $312.5 BIL


POPULATION: $54 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 6 (1 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $21.8 BIL ($6.8 BIL VS. 2015)

JOHANN RUPERT

EXPATRIATE
1

The luxury goods tycoon says the wealth gap is


keeping him up at nightbut not for the usual
reasons. At a business summit in June 2015 Rupert called for a solution to inequality so that the
wealthy wont be afraid to don his Compagnie
Financiere Richemonts brands like Cartier and
Van Cleef & Arpels. Otherwise our clients will
be targets, Rupert said in his keynote address.
Theyll be hated, despised.

JOHANNESBURG

Nicky Oppenheimer & family T

$6.6 BIL #174 DIAMONDS

Christoffel Wiese T
$5.8 BIL #214 RETAILING

Johann Rupert & family T


$5.3 BIL #248 LUXURY GOODS

Allan Gray S
$1.6 BIL #1121 MONEY MANAGEMENT

Koos Bekker T
$1.4 BIL #1275 MEDIA, INVESTMENTS

Patrice Motsepe T
$1.1 BIL #1577 MINING
FRANSCHHOEK
PAARL

CAMPS BAY

CAPE TOWN
3

Koo Bon-Moo S

$9.6 BIL #112 SAMSUNG

$1.7 BIL #1067 ELECTRONICS,


CHEMICALS, HOUSEHOLD
PRODUCTS

Suh Kyung-Bae S
$7.7 BIL #148 COSMETICS

Jay Y. Lee T

GDP: $1.4 TRIL


POPULATION: 51 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 31 (+1 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $75.1 BIL
($2.4 BIL VS. 2015)

$1.7 BIL #1067 COMPUTER


SERVICES, TOURISM

Chung Mong-Koo T

Kim Nam-Jung 

$4.3 BIL #351 MOTOR VEHICLES

Kwon Hyuk-Bin S
$3.7 BIL #421 ONLINE GAMES

TOP SECTORS

WEALTH
ORIGIN

Chey Tae-Won T

13%

Chung Eui-Sun T

Lee Hwa-Kyung T

$3 BIL #569 LOGISTICS


SEOUL
30

3
FINANCE & INVEST

Lee Jay-Hyun S

3
FOOD & BEVERAGE

Kim Jung-Ju S

Shin Dong-Joo T

$2.2 BIL #810 CONSTRUCTION

Lim Sung-Ki 
$2.2 BIL #810 PHARMA

Park Hyeon-Joo S
$2.1 BIL #854 ASSET
MANAGEMENT

Lee Boo-Jin T

NEWSMAKER:

$1.9 BIL #959 COMPUTER


SERVICES, TOURISM

Chey Tae-Won
The chairman of South Koreas
third-largest conglomerate,
who was reportedly serving
a four-year sentence on charges of embezzlement, was pardoned early by President Park
Geun-hye in August 2015. The
countrys leaders have long
been lenient on corporate
chieftains who nd themselves
in trouble, but this time Chey
had plenty of company. He was
one of more than 6,500 prisoners pardoned ahead of the
70th anniversary of
Koreas independence.

EXPATRIATE
1

Seo Jung-Jin S
$1.9 BIL #959 BIOTECHNOLOGY

Shin Chang-Jae T
$1.9 BIL #959 INSURANCE

Kim Beom-Su T
$1.7 BIL #1067 MOBILE CHAT
SERVICE
NE WCOME R

KIM NAM-JUNG
The heir to Dongwon Group swims into the ranks of the worlds
richest, as the companys shares have risen in recent years partly due to South Koreas higher demand for canned salmon as well
as new food and beverage product lines. Its Pittsburgh-based subsidiary, Starkist, owns an 8% stake in Alaskas Silver Bay Seafoods.
Kim joined the company in 1996 and became vice chairman in 2013.

WEALTH STATUS: UP S DOWN TUNCHANGED X NEW + RETURNEE 3 DIVIDED FORTUNE 


TECH CENTER

PLAYGROUND

OIL & GAS FIELDS AND DEPOSITS

Hur Young-In 
$1.2 BIL #1476 BAKERIES,
FAST FOOD

Lee Joong-Keun S

DAEDEOK SCIENCE TOWN

$1.3 BIL #1367 SNACK FOODS

$2.8 BIL #612 FOOD PRODUCTS,


ENTERTAINMENT
$2.3 BIL #771 ONLINE GAMES

DIGITAL MEDIA CITY


SAMSUNG TOWN
TEHERAN VALLEY

126 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

Chang Pyung-Soon S

TECHNOLOGY

WINE-GROWING REGION

$1.4 BIL #1275 RETAILING


$1.3 BIL #1367 EDUCATIONAL
PRODUCTS & SERVICES

INHERITED & GROWING


INHERITED
SELF-MADE

Shin Dong-Bin T

$3 BIL #569 COMPUTER


SERVICES, TELECOMS

FASHION & RETAIL


52%

$1.5 BIL #1198 FOOD

5
DIVERSIFIED

35%

Lee Seo-Hyun T

$6 BIL #201 SAMSUNG

FINANCIAL CENTER

$1.2 BIL #1476 RETAILING

Cho Chang-Gul 
$1.1 BIL #1577 FURNITURE

Hong Seok-Joh 
$1.1 BIL #1577 RETAIL

Kim Taek-Jin T
$1.1 BIL #1577 ONLINE GAMES

Lee Ho-Jin X
$1.1 BIL #1577 PETROCHEMICALS,
FINANCE, MEDIA, ELECTRONICS

Lee Myung-Hee T
$1.1 BIL #1577 RETAIL

Cho Jung-Ho 
$1 BIL #1694 FINANCE

Hong Ra-Hee T
$1 BIL #1694 SAMSUNG

JOHANN RUPERT: DAVID M. BENETT/GETTY IMAGES; CARTIER

SOUTH KOREA

Lee Kun-Hee T

WEALTH
ORIGIN

THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES

10%
43%

SPAIN

48%

R IC HE ST

$67 BIL #2 ZARA

Amancio Ortega
What slowdown? Prots of Ortegas retail
giant Inditex, the parent company of Zara,
soared 20% in the last year despite a lagging
European economy, boosting Ortegas net
worth by $2.5 billion to $67 billion. Defying
economic trends is nothing new for the richest
man in Europe, who has personally gained
$49 billion since 2009.

GDP: $1.2 TRIL


POPULATION: 46 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 21
TOTAL NET WORTH: $113.2 BIL
($3.1 BIL VS. 2015)

Amancio Ortega S

LA CORUNA
3

INHERITED & GROWING


INHERITED
SELF-MADE

Sandra Ortega Mera S

TOP SECTORS

Juan Roig X

6
CONSTRUCTION & ENGR
6
FASHION & RETAIL
4
FINANCE & INVEST
3
SERVICE
1
GAMBLING, CASINOS
1
REAL ESTATE

$6.4 BIL #178 ZARA


$5.4 BIL #240 SUPERMARKETS

Isak Andic & family T


$3.4 BIL #477 CLOTHING RETAIL

Juan-Miguel Villar Mir


& family T
$3.1 BIL #549 CONSTRUCTION

Rafael Del Pino y CalvoSotelo S


$3 BIL #569 CONSTRUCTION

Hortensia Herrero T
$2.7 BIL #638 SUPERMARKETS

MATADEPERA

Manuel Lao Hernandez S


$2.4 BIL #722 GAMBLING

BARCELONA

Alicia Koplowitz T
$2.2 BIL #810 CONSTRUCTION,
INVESTMENTS

Juan Abello S
$2 BIL #906 INVESTMENTS

Miguel Fluxa Rossello 


$2 BIL #906 HOTELS

Manuel Jove T
$1.9 BIL #959 REAL ESTATE
ESPORLES
MADRID
11

PALMA DE
MAJORCA
IZBA

Helena Revoredo T
$1.7 BIL #1067 PRIVATE
SECURITY

Jaime Botin T
$1.5 BIL #1198 BANKING

VALENCIA
3

Florentino Perez T
$1.4 BIL #1275 CONSTRUCTION
FORMENTERA

Gabriel Escarrer T
$1.3 BIL #1367 HOTELS

Fernando Roig S
$1.3 BIL #1367 SUPERMARKETS

Maria Del Pino y CalvoSotelo T


$1.2 BIL #1476 CONSTRUCTION

Alberto Alcocer T
$1.1 BIL #1577 INVESTMENTS

D. Leopoldo Del Pino y


Calvo-Sotelo 4

MARBELLA

$1.1 BIL #1577 CONSTRUCTION

N E WCO M E R

Jose Llado FernandezUrrutia T


$1.1 BIL #1577 CONSTRUCTION

The roots of Fluxa Rossellos fortune date back


to the 19th century, when his family started a
footwear business in Majorca, Spain. It moved
into tourism in 1956. Three decades later Miguel
opened up the rst Iberostar hotels in Majorca and the Canary Islands. He sold its tour operators and travel division for $1.1 billion a decade
ago but continues to expand its hotels. Today his
Grupo Iberostar has 100 hotels with 67,000 beds
in 27 countries including Mexico, Tunisia and
Bulgaria.

SWAZILAND
N E WS MAKER

GDP: $4.1 BIL


POPULATION: 1 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 1
TOTAL NET WORTH: $3.7 BIL
($200 MIL VS. 2015)

JAIME BOTIN
Authorities reportedly seized Picassos $28 million Head of a Young
Woman from Botins yacht last summer. Officials insist it is a national
treasure. Botin told one publication that the painting is his and he can do
whatever he wants with it. The painting will remain in Madrids Reina Soa
Museum until legal ownership is determined.

Nathan Kirsh T
$3.7 BIL #421 RETAIL, REAL ESTATE

EXPATRIATE
1
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WINE-GROWING REGION

128 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

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PLAYGROUND

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FINANCIAL CENTER

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THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES

SWEDEN

SWITZERLAND

GDP: $492 BIL


POPULATION: 10 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 26 (+3 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $112 BIL
($3.7 BIL VS. 2015)

GDP: $668.5 BIL


POPULATION: 8 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 32 (+3 VS.
2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH:
$91.6 BIL ($7 BIL VS.
2015)

EXPATRIATES
11

BASEL
5

EXPATRIATE
1

WILEN

DOMICILE
UNKNOWN
1

ZURICH
14
LUCERNE

BULLE

DAVOS

GSTAAD
2

VAUD CANTON

ST. MORITZ

GENEVA
4

N E WS M AKER

VERBIER

Ingvar
Kamprad

LUGANO
SKINNSKATTEBERG

STOCKHOLM
10

Ernesto Bertarelli T
$8.6 BIL #129 BIOTECH,
INVESTMENTS

Gianluigi & Rafaela


Aponte S
$8.4 BIL #135 SHIPPING
GOTHENBURG
5

Margarita Louis-Dreyfus &


family T
$6.8 BIL #171 COMMODITIES

TOREKOV

Hansjoerg Wyss X
$6.1 BIL #196 MEDICAL DEVICES

Willi & Isolde Liebherr &


family T
$5.0 BIL #270 CONSTRUCTION

Michael Pieper S
$3.8 BIL #403 KITCHEN
APPLIANCES

Rahel Blocher S
$3.7 BIL #421 CHEMICALS

Magdalena
Martullo-Blocher S
Stefan Olsson T

$3.7 BIL #421 CHEMICALS

$20.8 BIL #32 H&M

$2.4 BIL #722 DIVERSIFIED

Thomas Schmidheiny T

Hans Rausing X

Karl-Johan Persson T

$3.2 BIL #527 CEMENT

$12.5 BIL #73 PACKAGING

$2.4 BIL #722 H&M

Stephan Schmidheiny T

Frederik Paulsen S

Tom Persson T

$3.0 BIL #569 INVESTMENTS

$6 BIL #201 HEALTH CARE

$2.4 BIL #722 H&M

Sergio Mantegazza T

Jorn Rausing S

Charlotte Soderstrom T

$2.7 BIL #638 TRAVEL

$5.8 BIL #214 PACKAGING

$2.4 BIL #722 H&M

Eva Maria Bucher-Haefner T

Antonia Johnson S

Carl Bennet T

$5.7 BIL #219 DIVERSIFIED

$2.3 BIL #771 INVESTMENTS

Melker Schorling T

Erik Selin 

$5.7 BIL #219 INVESTMENTS

$2.1 BIL #854 BALDER

Finn Rausing S

Madeleine Olsson
Ericksson X

Kirsten Rausing S
$5.5 BIL #233 PACKAGING

Dan Olsson X
$5.1 BIL #262 DIVERSIFIED

Gustaf Douglas S
$4.7 BIL #308 SECURITY

Bertil Hult T
$4 BIL #380 EDUCATION

Fredrik Lundberg S

DONA BERTARELLI

$4.5 BIL #324 BIOTECH

Stefan Persson T

$5.5 BIL #233 PACKAGING

N E WS M A K ER

Dona Bertarelli T

$1.8 BIL #1011 OIL TRADING

Markus Persson X
$1.3 BIL #1367 MINECRAFT

Thomas Sandell X
$1.3 BIL #1367 HEDGE FUNDS

Jonas Kamprad 

Thomas Straumann S
$1.5 BIL #1198 DENTAL IMPLANTS

Rudolf Maag S
$1.4 BIL #1275 MEDICAL DEVICES

Ivan Glasenberg

Miriam Baumann-Blocher X

Edgar de Picciotto
& family S

Commodities giant Glencores stock price fell


two-thirds in the past
year, pushing its CEOs
net worth down by
$3 billion. Glasenberg is
luckier than others, since
four Glencore shareholders (including top executives Daniel Mat,
Aristotelis Mistakidis and
Tor Peterson) fell below
$1 billion. The Swiss rm
issued 1.3 billion new
shares in September
to soften the blow, and
Glasenberg snatched up
enough to keep his 8.4%
stake intact.

$2.2 BIL #810 SOFTWARE,


INVESTMENTS

Ivan Glasenberg T
$2.1 BIL #854 MINING

Maja Oeri T
$2.1 BIL #854 ROCHE HOLDING

Thomas Meyer T
$1.9 BIL #959 APPAREL RETAILER

Esther Grether & family T

$1 BIL #1694 IKEA

$1.6 BIL #1121 BANKING

$2.3 BIL #771 COMPUTER


ASSOCIATES

Martin Haefner T

Torbjorn Tornqvist T

Benjamin de Rothschild S

B IG G E ST LOS E R

$2.3 BIL #771 PRIVATE BANKING

$1.9 BIL #959 DIVERSIFIED

Bertarelli circumnavigated the globe in a little over 47 days,


becoming the fastest woman to sail around the world in a
yacht. Competing for the Jules Verne Trophynamed after the
author of Around the World in 80 Daysshe sailed in a 131foot trimaran with the all-male Spindrift Racing team she cofounded ve years ago. The team, which crossed the capes of
Hope, Leeuwin and Horn, traveling nearly 29,000 miles, just
missed the 45-day world record.

$1.8 BIL #1011 ART COLLECTION,


SWATCH

$3.8 BIL #403 REAL ESTATE,


INVESTMENTS

Mathias Kamprad 
$1 BIL #1694 IKEA

Karl Scheufele III & family X

Lottie Tham T

Peter Kamprad 

$1.7 BIL #1067 JEWELRY

$3.6 BIL #435 H&M

$1 BIL #1694 IKEA

WEALTH STATUS: UP S DOWN TUNCHANGED X NEW + RETURNEE 3 DIVIDED FORTUNE 


WINE-GROWING REGION

130 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

TECH CENTER

PLAYGROUND

OIL & GAS FIELDS AND DEPOSITS

FINANCIAL CENTER

$1.3 BIL #1367 CHEMICALS

Marcel Erni 
$1.3 BIL #1367 PRIVATE EQUITY

Walter Frey T
$1.3 BIL #1367 EMIL FREY GROUP

Alfred Gantner 
$1.3 BIL #1367 PRIVATE EQUITY

Urs Wietlisbach 
$1.3 BIL #1367 PRIVATE EQUITY

Martin Ebner 4
$1.2 BIL #1476 INVESTMENTS

Gary Fegel X
$1.2 BIL #1476 COMMODITIES
TRADING

Willy Michel 
$1.2 BIL #1476 MEDICAL DEVICES

Peter Spuhler T
$1.1 BIL #1577 TRAIN CARS

CLAUDIO BRESCIANI/EPA/NEWSCOM; ; MICHEL DUFOUR/GETTY IMAGES; ISON CHRIS/PA PHOTOS/ABACA/NEWSCOM

Ikea founder Kamprad, 89, once the


worlds fourth-richest person, falls out
of the ranks. Taking
his place are his three
sonsPeter, Mathias
and Jonasto whom
he transferred ownership of privately held
Ikano Group, with
interests in nance
and real estate. It
also owns the Ikea
franchise in Singapore, Malaysia and
Thailand. The famously frugal founder irrevocably transferred
ownership of the furniture giant to foundations in Europes
tax havens years ago,
but his sons still keep
tabs on the original
business, sitting on
supervisory boards
of at least four Ikearelated entities.

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THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES

TAIWAN
GDP: $525.8 BIL
POPULATION: 23 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 25 (8 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $54.1 BIL
($28 BIL VS. 2015)
WEALTH
ORIGIN

TA TSUN

TAIPEI
19

GDP: $392.5 BIL


POPULATION: 68 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 16 (1 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $44.9 BIL ($11.2 BIL VS. 2015)

HSINCHU SCIENCE PARK

TOP SECTORS
5
FINANCE & INVEST

12%
52%

THAILAND

36%

FOOD & BEVERAGE

TAICHUNG

4
MANUFACTURING
INHERITED & GROWING
INHERITED
SELF-MADE

4
TECHNOLOGY

CHANGHUA
COUNTY

BANGKOK
14

3
REAL ESTATE

N E WSM A KER

SOUTHERN TAIWAN SCIENCE PARK

Terry Gou
KO KUT ISLAND

EXPATRIATES
3
N E WS M A K E R

Chao TengHsiung
The real estate mogul
was sentenced to two
years in prison in December 2015 for bribing officials to get
contracts in three
construction developments. With the sentence suspended for
ve years, Chao will
not spend any time
inside a cell but has to
pay a $6 million ne.
The Farglory Group
chairman admitted
the wrongdoings and
received a favorable
judgment for his cooperation in the case.

EXPATRIATES
2

PHUKET

Charoen
Sirivadhanabhakdi T

Montri Jiaravanont 

$10.7 BIL #94 BEVERAGES

Thaksin Shinawatra T

Dhanin Chearavanont 
$6.8 BIL #171 DIVERSIFIED

Vanich Chaiyawan X
$3.7 BIL #421 INSURANCE,
BEVERAGES

Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth X
$2.8 BIL #612 HOSPITALS

Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha S
$2.8 BIL #612 DUTY-FREE

Wei Yin-Chun T

Tsai Eng-Meng T

Pierre Chen T

$6 BIL #201 FOOD, BEVERAGES

$1.9 BIL #959 ART, ELECTRONICS

Terry Gou T

Tsai Hong-tu T

$5.6 BIL #228 ELECTRONICS

Lin Yu-lin T
$5 BIL #270 REAL ESTATE

$1.4 BIL #1275 REAL ESTATE

Barry Lam T

Liao Long-Shing T

$3.1 BIL #549 COMPUTERS

$1.4 BIL #1275 PETROCHEMICALS

$1.4 BIL #1275 FOOD,


BEVERAGES

Luo Jye & family T

Suhon Lin T

$3 BIL #569 TIRES

Chao Teng-Hsiung T

$1.4 BIL #1275 PETROCHEMICALS

$1.3 BIL #1367 REAL ESTATE

Samuel Yin T

Tsai Cheng-da T

$2.6 BIL #666 DIVERSIFIED

Lin Ming-Hsiung S

$1.4 BIL #1275 FINANCE

$1.3 BIL #1367 RETAIL

Daniel Tsai T

Tseng Shin-Yi T

$2.4 BIL #722 FINANCE

Scott Lin & family T

$1.4 BIL #1275 PETROCHEMICALS

Richard Tsai T

Wei Ing-Chou T

$1.3 BIL #1367 OPTICAL


COMPONENTS

$2.4 BIL #722 FINANCE

$1.4 BIL #1275 FOOD,


BEVERAGES

T.Y. Tsai T

Krit Ratanarak T

$1.4 BIL #1275 FOOD,


BEVERAGES

$2.6 BIL #666 MEDIA,


REAL ESTATE

$1.6 BIL #1121 FINANCE

Wei Ying-Chiao T

Jaran Chiaravanont 

$1.4 BIL #1275 FOOD,


BEVERAGES

$2.1 BIL #854 DIVERSIFIED

Chen Yung-Tai T

Wei Yin-Heng T

$2.1 BIL #854 DIVERSIFIED

Bruce Cheng T

Sumet Jiaravanon 

Wu Chung-Yi T
$1 BIL #1694 AUTO PARTS

GDP: $48.6 BIL


POPULATION: 53 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 1 (1 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $1.1 BIL
($1.15 BIL VS. 2015)
Mohammed Dewji T
$1.1 BIL #1577 DIVERSIFIED

WEALTH STATUS: UP S DOWN TUNCHANGED X NEW + RETURNEE 3 DIVIDED FORTUNE 


WINE-GROWING REGION

132 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

TECH CENTER

PLAYGROUND

OIL & GAS FIELDS AND DEPOSITS

$1.6 BIL #1121 INVESTMENTS

Wichai Thongtang T
$1.5 BIL #1198 INVESTMENTS

William Heinecke X
$1.4 BIL #1275 HOTELS

Keeree Kanjanapas T
$1.3 BIL #1367 TRANSPORTATION

Thongma Vijitpongpun T
$1.3 BIL #1367 REAL ESTATE

Surin Upatkoon T
$1.1 BIL #1577 TELECOM,
LOTTERIES, INSURANCE

Sudthida Ratanarak T
$1 BIL #1694 MEDIA,
REAL ESTATE

TANZANIA

$1 BIL #1694 ELECTRONICS

$2 BIL #906 FINANCE

$2.1 BIL #854 DIVERSIFIED

FINANCIAL CENTER

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Sharps board accepted a reported $6 billion bid, Foxconn Technology Group issued a
statement explaining
that it had received a
key document from
Sharp that included
material information,
most of which was not
disclosed in previous
discussions. Sharp apparently issued its own
statement, saying it had
disclosed everything.
Gou founded the business in 1974 with
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worlds largest electronics contract manufacturer and a key supplier to
Apple, HP and Sony.

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Tel: +2022661820
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT / PROMOTION

institutional clients throughout the region,


and that possesses the expertise to assist
foreign investors in Egypts fast-growing
energy sector. Founded in 1982, it provides
consulting and engineering solutions for
generation and transmission projects, with
a specialty in renewable power sources.
We are problem-solvers, explains its
chairman, Hosni El-Kholy. We provide
many different services, including tailored
software solutions and feasibility studies.
We are now expanding our offer to contractors and have already had a number
of very successful projects. We already
do most of the transmission work for the
Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company
as their preferred partner.
Challenges still persist for Egypt
namely the threat of terrorism, lower tourism receipts, shrinking foreign reserves
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public and private sectors exhibit a strong
resolve to overcome any obstacle. We
are on the right track, Reliances Kassabgui says. We have to send the message
to foreign investors, encourage them to
come to Egypt and show them possibilities for business.
Section Managers: Rosemary Venn and Christopher French
For more information, contact:
Gabriel Gutirrezg.gutierrez@forbes-cm.com

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For six decades, Zaki Hashem & Partners (ZH&P) has looked
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after legal matters for corporate clients from Egypt, the Midhistory advising
dle East and worldwide. Established in 1953, it ranks among
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and bureaucratic, at the end of the day, deals get done
and people make money.
For more information, call: +202 2399 9999
or visit www.hashemlaw.com.

WEALTH
ORIGIN

THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES

10%
57%

TURKEY

33%

INHERITED & GROWING


INHERITED
SELF-MADE

TOP SECTORS

GDP: $716.4 BIL


POPULATION: 78 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 30 (2 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $45.4 BIL ($7.1 BIL VS. 2015)

DIVERSIFIED
5
FINANCE & INVEST

ISTANBUL
26

Bulent Eczacibasi T
$1.4 BIL #1275 PHARMACEUTICALS, DIVERSIFIED

4
CONSTRUCTION & ENGR
3
FASHION & RETAIL
2
FOOD & BEVERAGE

EXPATRIATE
1

Filiz Sahenk T
$1.5 BIL #1198 BANKING, MEDIA

14

Faruk Eczacibasi X
$1.4 BIL #1275 PHARMACEUTICALS, DIVERSIFIED

Mehmet Aydinlar X
$1.3 BIL #1367 HOSPITALS

Sezai Bacaksiz 4
$1.3 BIL #1367 DIVERSIFIED

Ahmet Calik T
$1.3 BIL #1367 ENERGY, MEDIA,
BANKING

Turgay Ciner S

ANKARA
3

$1.3 BIL #1367 DIVERSIFIED

CESME

Nihat Ozdemir 4
$1.3 BIL #1367 DIVERSIFIED

Ahmet Nazif Zorlu T


$1.3 BIL #1367 DIVERSIFIED

BODRUM

Ali Ibrahim Agaoglu T


$1.2 BIL #1476 CONSTRUCTION

Sek Yilmaz Dizdar 

Murat Ulker T

Murat Ulker

$1.2 BIL #1476 FASHION, RETAIL

Husnu Ozyegin T
$2.6 bil #666 FINANCE,

$1.1 BIL #1577 TOURISM,


CONSTRUCTION

Mehmet Nazif Gunal T

DIVERSIFIED

Mustafa Latif Topbas T

Ferit Faik Sahenk T

The chairman of Turkeys largest food company,


Yildiz Holding, whose personal fortune fell $1.5 billion in the past year, is seeking to improve the groups
outlook by uniting his global assets, including Godiva
and United Biscuits, into a
new company called Pladis.
The January restructuring
may be a prelude to an IPO.
Meanwhile, he has divested
his beverage assets, selling
an 80% stake in milk producer Ak Food to Frances
Groupe Lactalis for almost
$1 billion in 2015.

$2.4 BIL #722 BANKING, MEDIA

$1.1 BIL #1577 FOOD


MANUFACTURING, RETAIL

Semahat Sevim Arsel T

Hamdi Akin 

$2.2 BIL #810 DIVERSIFIED

$1 BIL #1694 DIVERSIFIED

Erman Ilicak T

Mehmet Rustu Basaran T

$2 BIL #906 CONSTRUCTION

$1 BIL #1694 BANKING, GAS

Mustafa Rahmi Koc T

Sevket Sabanci T

$2 BIL #906 DIVERSIFIED

$1 BIL #1694 DIVERSIFIED

Mustafa Kucuk 

Deniz Sahenk T

$2 BIL #906 FASHION, RETAIL

$1 BIL #1694 BANKING, MEDIA

Sarik Tara T

Mehmet Sinan Tara T

$2 BIL #906 CONSTRUCTION

$1 BIL #1694 CONSTRUCTION

Suna Kirac T

Murat Vargi X

$1.8 BIL #1011 DIVERSIFIED

$1 BIL #1694 TELECOM

Hamdi Ulukaya S

Fatma Yazici X

$1.8 BIL #1011 CHOBANI YOGURT

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

UKRAINE

GDP: $339.1 BIL


POPULATION: 9 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 5 (+1 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $18.4 BIL ($0.8 BIL VS. 2015)

GDP: $88.9 BIL


POPULATION: 45 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 5
TOTAL NET WORTH:
$7.1 BIL
($4.8 BIL VS. 2015)

DUBAI
5

Majid Al Futtaim & family T


$5.0 BIL #270 REAL ESTATE,
RETAIL

Abdulla bin Ahmad Al


Ghurair & family T

KIEV
3
DNEPROPETROVSK
DONETSK

ABU DHABI

$4.9 BIL #286 DIVERSIFIED

Hussain Sajwani 

Rinat Akhmetov T

$3.2 BIL #527 REAL ESTATE

$2.3 BIL #771 STEEL, COAL

Abdulla Al Futtaim T

Henadiy Boholyubov S

$3.1 BIL #549 AUTO DEALERS,


INVESTMENTS

$1.3 BIL #1367 BANKING,


INVESTMENTS

Saif Al Ghurair & family T

Ihor Kolomoyskyy X

$2.2 BIL #810 DIVERSIFIED

$1.3 BIL #1367 BANKING,


INVESTMENTS

Victor Pinchuk T
$1.2 BIL #1476 STEEL PIPES,
DIVERSIFIED

Yuriy Kosiuk T
$1 BIL #1694 AGRICULTURE

WEALTH STATUS: UP S DOWN TUNCHANGED X NEW + RETURNEE 3 DIVIDED FORTUNE 


WINE-GROWING REGION

136 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

TECH CENTER

PLAYGROUND

OIL & GAS FIELDS AND DEPOSITS

$1 BIL #1694 DIVERSIFIED

FINANCIAL CENTER

YILDIZ HOLDING/ANADOLU AGENCY/GETTY IMAGES; STUDIOSHOTS/ALAMY

RICHE ST

$2.9 BIL #595 FOOD


MANUFACTURING

THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES

UNITED KINGDOM

N E WS M A K E R

Lord Michael
Ashcroft

GDP: $2.9 TRIL


POPULATION: 65 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 50 (3 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $161.8 BIL
($9.4 BIL VS. 2015)
EXPATRIATES
16

TOP SECTORS

6%
12%
82%

INHERITED & GROWING


INHERITED
SELF-MADE

11
FINANCE & INVEST
8
REAL ESTATE
7
DIVERSIFIED
6
FASHION & RETAIL
4
MANUFACTURING
4
MEDIA & ENTERT

NE WCOME R

John Bloor
Bloor reportedly left school at
age 15 to become an apprentice
plasterer and built his rst house
before age 20. Today his Bloor
Homes puts up more than 2,000
residences a year. He also owns
Triumph Motorcycles, the iconic
brand made famous by American
movie stars like James Dean and
Steve McQueen.

Hinduja family X
$14.5 BIL #58 HINDUJA GROUP

David & Simon Reuben S

ABERDEEN

$14.4 BIL #60 INVESTMENTS,


REAL ESTATE

Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor


& family S
$13 BIL #68 REAL ESTATE

Philip & Cristina Green S

GLASGOW

Anthony Bamford & family T


$2.3 BIL #771 CONSTRUCTION
EQUIPMENT

$5.9 BIL #205 RETAIL

Robert Miller S

James Ratcliffe S

$2.2 BIL #810 RETAIL

$5.5 BIL #233 CHEMICALS

Charles Dunstone T

Joe Lewis T

$2.1 BIL #854 MOBILE PHONES

$5.3 BIL #248 INVESTMENTS

Martisa Lazari & family 

Ian & Richard Livingstone S

$2.1 BIL #854 REAL ESTATE

$5.1 BIL #262 REAL ESTATE

Sunil Vaswani 

David & Frederick Barclay T

$2 BIL #906 DIVERSIFIED

Jonathan Harmsworth T

$4.9 BIL #286 MEDIA, RETAIL

John Coates S

$1.3 BIL #1367 PUBLISHING

Richard Branson S

$1.9 BIL #959 ONLINE GAMBLING

Hilton Schlosberg T

$4.9 BIL #286 VIRGIN

Andrew Currie 

Laurence Graff & family T

$1.8 BIL #1011 CHEMICALS

$1.3 BIL #1367 MONSTER


ENERGY DRINKS

$4.6 BIL #317 DIAMOND


JEWELRY

Farhad Moshiri T

Cameron Mackintosh 

Bruno Schroder & family T


$4.6 BIL #317 BANKING

Clive Calder S
$4.5 BIL #324 RECORD LABEL

James Dyson T
$4 BIL #380 VACUUMS

Denise Coates S
$3.8 BIL #403 ONLINE GAMBLING

Michael Ashley T
$3.5 BIL #453 SPORTS RETAILING

Bernard Ecclestone & fam T


$3.2 BIL #527 FORMULA ONE

Michael Platt T
$3 BIL #569 HEDGE FUNDS

Peter Hargreaves S
$2.9 BIL #595 FINANCIAL
SERVICES

John Whittaker T
$2.7 BIL #638 REAL ESTATE

Eddie & Sol Zakay T


$2.5 BIL #688 REAL ESTATE

John Caudwell T
$2.4 BIL #722 MOBILE PHONES

Tom Morris S
$2.4 BIL #722 RETAIL

ISLE OF MAN

$1.8 BIL #1011 DIVERSIFIED

$1.2 BIL #1476 MUSICAL THEATER

John Reece 

Ayman Asfari T

$1.8 BIL #1011 CHEMICALS

$1.1 BIL #1577 OIL SERVICES

Christopher Hohn 4

John Bloor 

$1.7 BIL #1067 HEDGE FUND

Stephen Rubin T
$1.7 BIL #1067 SPORTS APPAREL

David Harding S

$1.1 BIL #1577 REAL ESTATE,


MANUFACTURING

ABERDYFI
STOKE-ON-TRENT
3
GLOUCESTER
2

138 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

HERTFORDSHIRE
CHERTSEY

$1.1 BIL #1577 COMMUNICATIONS

BRISTOL

LONDON
19

$1.1 BIL #1577 DIVERSIFIED

Kenneth Lo S

HAMPSHIRE

Anthony Langley 

$1.6 BIL #1121 TEXTILES

SILICON
ROUNDABOUT

M4 CORRIDOR

$1.1 BIL #1577 MANUFACTURING

Ian Wood & family T


$1.6 BIL #1121 ENERGY SERVICES

Michael Ashcroft X
$1.5 BIL #1198 SECURITY
N E WS M A K E R

Richard Desmond T

PHILIP & CRISTINA GREEN

$1.5 BIL #1198 PUBLISHING

The husband-wife duo unloaded their


struggling clothing and homeware
chain, BHS, for just one pound in 2015,
quite a comedown from the $300 million they spent to acquire it in 2002. But
dont feel too bad: Their Arcadia Group
owns European retail favorites such as
Topshop, Dorothy Perkins and Miss Selfridge, which continue to do well.

Alan Howard T
$1.5 BIL #1198 HEDGE FUNDS

Jasminder Singh & family S


$1.5 BIL #1198 HOTELS

Mark Coombs T
$1.4 BIL #1275 FINANCE

Mark Dixon S
$1.3 BIL #1367 OFFICE
REAL ESTATE

WEALTH STATUS: UP S DOWN TUNCHANGED X NEW + RETURNEE 3 DIVIDED FORTUNE 


WINE-GROWING REGION

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

CHESTER

Mohammed Ibrahim X
Raghuvinder Kataria X

$1.6 BIL #1121 FINANCE

MERSEYSIDE

TECH CENTER

PLAYGROUND

OIL & GAS FIELDS AND DEPOSITS

FINANCIAL CENTER

PHILIP AND TINA GREEN: KARWAI TANG/GETTY IMAGES;


TRIUMPH MOTORCYCLE: OLEKSIY MAKSYMENKO/ALAMY

WEALTH
ORIGIN

After resigning from the


House of Lords last spring,
Ashcroft published Call Me
Dave, a scathing book about
British Prime Minister David
Cameron. Allegations include
drug use and
snobby behavior. It also claims
that the Oxford
grad once put
his private parts
in a dead pigs
mouth as part
of an initiation
ritual. A Conservative deputy chairman
from 2005 to
2010, Ashcroft admitted his
disappointment that Cameron didnt offer him a job in
his cabinet, but he insists the
book isnt revenge.

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THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES

UNITED STATES
GDP: $18 TRIL
POPULATION: 322 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 540 (+4 VS. 2015)
TOTAL NET WORTH: $2.4 TRIL ($200 BIL VS. 2015)
LANAI, KAUAI

132
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11

73
TECHNOLOGY

15%

INHERITED & GROWING


INHERITED
SELF-MADE

HONOLULU

52
FOOD & BEVERAGE

MISSOULA
2

PORTLAND
3

48
FASHION & RETAIL

BIG HORN

38
REAL ESTATE

BOZEMAN
2
SHERIDAN

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Bill Gates T
$75 BIL #1 MICROSOFT

Warren Buffett T
$60.8 BIL #3 BERKSHIRE
HATHAWAY

Jeff Bezos S
$45.2 BIL #5 AMAZON.COM

Mark Zuckerberg S
$44.6 BIL #6 FACEBOOK

Larry Ellison T
$43.6 BIL #7 ORACLE

Michael Bloomberg S
$40 BIL #8 BLOOMBERG LP

Charles Koch T
$39.6 BIL #9 DIVERSIFIED

David Koch T
$39.6 BIL #9 DIVERSIFIED

Larry Page S
$35.2 BIL #12 GOOGLE

Sergey Brin S
$34.4 BIL #13 GOOGLE

Jim Walton T
$33.6 BIL #15 WAL-MART

Alice Walton T
$32.3 BIL #16 WAL-MART

S. Robson Walton T
$31.9 BIL #17 WAL-MART

Sheldon Adelson T
$25.2 BIL #22 CASINOS

George Soros S

Elizabeth
Holmes
A restorm has surrounded Holmes
blood-testing company, Theranos. Last
fall the FDA said the
company was shipping an unapproved
blood-collection device. In January the
Centers for Medicare
& Medicaid Services found deciencies in a California lab. A few days
later Theranos partner Walgreens suspended sending
tests to that lab and
stopped blood tests
in its Palo Alto, Calif.
store; it still runs
the tests in 40 Arizona stores. As a
result of the troubles, FORBES lowered the estimated
valuation of Theranos. Still, Holmes
remains the worlds
youngest self-made
woman, for now.

JACKSON
6
BOISE
3

DEER VALLEY
PARK CITY
CHICO

SALT LAKE CITY

STOCKTON

SAN FRANCISCO/
SAN JOSE
70

SNOWMASS/ASPEN/BEAVER
CREEK,COLORADO

SANTA CRUZ

$23.5 BIL #26 MICROSOFT

Forrest Mars Jr. T


$23.4 BIL #27 CANDY

Jacqueline Mars T
$23.4 BIL #27 CANDY

John Mars T
$23.4 BIL #27 CANDY

Michael Dell S
$19.8 BIL #35 DELL

Paul Allen X
$17.5 BIL #40 MICROSOFT,
INVESTMENTS

Carl Icahn T
$17 BIL #43 INVESTMENTS

140 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

DENVER
7

LAS VEGAS
8

MONTECITO
SANTA BARBARA

RIVERSIDE

LOS ANGELES
43

PHOENIX
9

SAN DIEGO
4

EL PASO
B IG G E ST G A I N E R

MARK
ZUCKERBERG
Laurene Powell Jobs
& family T

No one on the planet has


had a better year than
Zuck. Facebooks soaring stock price makes him
the worlds biggest gainer,
adding $11.2 billion to his
fortune in 12 months. Plus,
he became a father for the
rst time. To celebrate the
milestone, he and his wife,
Priscilla, announced plans
to give 99% of their Facebook stocknearly all of
their wealthto charitable causes during their lifetime. Zuckerberg has also taken to posting photos and videos of his family on Facebook, including
ones with his daughter, Max, getting her vaccines,
dressed as a Jedi, celebrating her rst Chinese New
Year and hanging out with their dog, Beast.

$16.7 BIL #44 APPLE, DISNEY

Ray Dalio S
$15.6 BIL #48 HEDGE FUNDS

James Simons S
$15.5 BIL #50 HEDGE FUNDS

Len Blavatnik T
$15.3 BIL #53 DIVERSIFIED

Donald Bren T
$15.1 BIL #54 REAL ESTATE

Abigail Johnson T
$13.1 BIL #65 MONEY
MANAGEMENT

Steve Cohen S
$12.7 BIL #72 HEDGE FUNDS

WEALTH STATUS: UP S DOWN TUNCHANGED X NEW + RETURNEE 3 DIVIDED FORTUNE 


WINE-GROWING REGION

BOULDER

PEBBLE BEACH

Phil Knight S
Steve Ballmer S

FORT COLLINS
ASPEN

$24.9 BIL #23 HEDGE FUNDS


$24.4 BIL #24 NIKE

SUN VALLEY

REDDING

TECH CENTER

PLAYGROUND

OIL & GAS FIELDS AND DEPOSITS

FINANCIAL CENTER

ELIZABETH HOLMES: ETHAN PINES; MARK ZUCKERBERG: NEWSCOM;


WAGGONER RANCH: GREGG ELLMAN/MCT/NEWSCOM; STAN KROENKE:
NICK UT/AP; OIL DERRICK: RYAN MCGINNIS/GETTY IMAGES;
DAVID RUBENSTEIN: DREW ANGERER/GETTY IMAGES

17%
68%

The nearly 50% drop in oil prices drained $35.8 billion from the fortunes
of 23 U.S. oil and gas billionaires. No American oilman lost more than
Hamm, whose net worth fell $7.1 billion. At his 2014 peak he was worth
$18.7 billion, but the oil price plunge and a $1 billion divorce judgment
have knocked him down 166
ranks in a year to 262nd.
SAN JUAN
ISLANDS

TOP SECTORS

WEALTH
ORIGIN

N E WS M A K E R

HAROLD HAMM

NEWCO MER

recipes and hairstyles to crafts


and home decor from their
mobile phones or computers,
now has more than 100 million
monthly users. It was most
recently valued at $11 billion in
May 2015, pushing Silbermann,
33, and cofounder Evan
Sharp, 33 (left), into
the billionaire
ranks. They are
2 of a record 66
billionaires under
the age of 40.

BEN SILBERMANN
As a child in Iowa, Silbermann
(right) collected dried insects
pinned to cardboard. As an
adult he and two cofounders
created Pinterest, a site
for virtual collectors
in 2010. The photo
bookmarking site,
which lets users
save and share
image collections
of anything from

MINNEAPOLIS/
ST. PAUL
3
ORONO

Hedge fund tycoon reportedly


dropped $500 million on two paintings, de Koonings
Interchange and
Pollocks Number 17A, last fall.
Sounds pricey, but Griffin was the top-performing hedge funder in 2015, earning $1.7
billion thanks to 14.3% returns (net of
fees) at his agship fund. He
was one of 22 billionaire
fund managers to get
richer this year; 11 saw
HANOVER
their fortunes shrink.

EAU CLAIRE

MADISON
JANESVILLE

SIOUX FALLS

OMAHA
2

KEN
GRIFFIN

BIRCHWOOD
SHEBOYGAN

MANKATO

N E WS M A K E R

BLOOMINGTON

LEXINGTON

NASHVILLE
4

OKLAHOMA CITY
3

TULSA
2

LONG ISLAND
6
PHILADELPHIA
7

NEW JERSEY
8
BALTIMORE
3

LEWISBURG

NEW YORK
74

EXPATRIATES
16

VIRGINIA BEACH

KNOXVILLE 2

SPRINGFIELD

FAYETTEVILLE
4

HAMPTONS

WASHINGTON, DC
9

KENTUCKY DERBY

ST. LOUIS
2

PROVIDENCE

WESTCHESTER
10

PITTSBURGH
2
COLUMBUS

DAYTON
INDIANAPOLIS
2

BOSTON
10

NANTUCKET

LIBERTY

GRAND
RAPIDS

RACINE
4

DES MOINES

KANSAS CITY
COLUMBIA
2
2
WICHITA

CONNECTICUT
12

BUFFALO

ANN DETROIT
ARBOR
5
HOLLAND
CLEVELAND
3
KALAMAZOO
3
CHICAGO
YOUNGSTOWN
18

BELGRADE

CHARLOTTE

CLEVELAND

RALEIGH
2

CHATTANOOGA
2
MEMPHIS

LITTLE ROCK
ATLANTA
9

CHARLESTON

DALLAS/FORT WORTH
22

CISCO
2

SAN ANTONIO
4

DELTONA

KILLEEN
HOUSTON
13

NEW ORLEANS 2

AUSTIN
5

PORT
ST. LUCIE 2

PALM BEACH

CAPE CORAL
NAPLES
5
NE WS MA KE R

Stan Kroenke
Perhaps looking for some breathing room after the
media frenzy surrounding his bid to move the
St. Louis Rams back to Los Angeles (which was approved in January), the press-shy billionaire bought
the massive Waggoner Ranch in northern Texas in
February. The price wasnt disclosed, but the property, which is larger than New York City and has
1,000 oil wells and a 27,000-acre farm, had
been listed at $725 million. He also owns
ranches in Montana, Wyoming and Canada.

N E WS M A K ER

LAKELAND

TAMPA/ST.
PETERSBURG
3

MIAMI/PALM
BEACH
29

ISLAMORADA
MARATHON

DAVID
RUBENSTEIN
One of the private equity nanciers behind the
Carlyle Group is donating $18.5 million to restore the 94-year-old
Lincoln Memorial and
expand exhibits and research there. Its the
fourth national monument that Rubenstein
has helped refurbish. In
all, hes given $44 million toward historic
preservation of U.S. attractions, including the
Washington Monument.

MARCH 21, 2016 FORBES | 141

THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES


Paul Tudor Jones II S
B IG G E ST LOSE R

Charles Ergen T

CHRISTY WALTON

$12.2 BIL #77 SATELLITE TV

Ronald Perelman T
$12.1 BIL #78 LEVERAGED
BUYOUTS

Stephen Ross S
$12 BIL #80 REAL ESTATE

Patrick Soon-Shiong T
$11.9 BIL #81 PHARMACEUTICALS

David Tepper S
$11.4 BIL #85 HEDGE FUNDS

Thomas Peterffy S
$11.1 BIL #88 DISCOUNT
BROKERAGE

Elon Musk T
$10.7 BIL #94 TESLA MOTORS

Rupert Murdoch & family T

Walton is down big$36.5 billionbut not because of


Wal-Mart stock. Shares have fallen about 23% since last
years list, which would have knocked $9.6 billion off her
$41.7 billion fortune, but previously sealed court documents reveal that she didnt inherit all of her late husband
John Waltons estate upon his
2005 death (he died in an airplane crash). John and Christys only child, Lukas, received
one-third of his fathers fortune;
another half went to charitable
trusts; Christy got the remaining sixth. That split is still good
enough to make Christy the 22ndwealthiest woman in the world.
Lukas, 29, is the 99th-richest person, with a $10.4 billion fortune.

$10.6 BIL #96 MEDIA

Lukas Walton 
$10.4 BIL #99 WAL-MART

George Kaiser T

Jack Taylor & family T

Eric Schmidt S

$7.1 BIL #167 OIL & GAS, BANKING

$5.3 BIL #248 ENTERPRISE


RENT-A-CAR

$10.2 BIL #100 GOOGLE

Les Wexner & family T

Samuel Newhouse Jr. S

$7.1 BIL #167 RETAIL

$10.0 BIL #103 MEDIA

David Geffen T

Philip Anschutz T

$6.5 BIL #176 ENTERTAINMENT

$9.7 BIL #108 INVESTMENTS

James Chambers 

Jim Kennedy S

$6.4 BIL #178 MEDIA

$9.7 BIL #108 MEDIA

Katharine Rayner 

Blair Parry-Okeden S

$6.4 BIL #178 MEDIA

$9.7 BIL #108 MEDIA

Margaretta Taylor 

John Paulson T

$6.4 BIL #178 MEDIA

$9.7 BIL #108 HEDGE FUNDS

John Malone T

Stephen Schwarzman T

$6.3 BIL #184 CABLE TELEVISION

$9.5 BIL #113 INVESTMENTS

Travis Kalanick S

Andrew Beal T

$6.2 BIL #188 UBER

$9.4 BIL #115 BANKS, REAL ESTATE

Gordon Moore T

John Menard Jr. S

$6 BIL #201 INTEL

$9.3 BIL #116 RETAIL

Shahid Khan S

Donald Newhouse S

$5.9 BIL #205 AUTO PARTS

$9.3 BIL #116 MEDIA

Richard LeFrak & family T

Leonard Lauder T

$5.9 BIL #205 REAL ESTATE

Trevor Rees-Jones S

$5.1 BIL #262 ROOFING

Charles Dolan & family S


$5 BIL #270 CABLE TELEVISION

Israel Englander S
$5 BIL #270 HEDGE FUNDS

Herbert Kohler Jr. & family S


$7.3 BIL #159 PLUMBING
FIXTURES

Edward Johnson III T


$7.2 BIL #163 MONEY
MANAGEMENT

Pierre Omidyar T
$7.2 BIL #163 EBAY

Micky Arison X
$7.1 BIL #167 CARNIVAL CRUISES

David Sun T

Karen Pritzker T

$4.5 BIL #324 COMPUTER


HARDWARE

Donald Trump S
$4.5 BIL #324 TELEVISION, REAL
ESTATE

John Tu T

Edward Roski Jr. T


$3.8 BIL #403 REAL ESTATE

Walter Scott Jr. & family S

$4.4 BIL #338 BUSINESS


SOFTWARE

Jeffery Hildebrand T
$4.2 BIL #358 OIL

Henry Kravis T

$3.7 BIL #421 PHARMACEUTICALS

Jeremy Jacobs Sr. S


$3.7 BIL #421 SPORTS
CONCESSIONS

Archie Aldis Emmerson X


$3.6 BIL #435 TIMBERLAND,
LUMBER MILLS

Gwendolyn Sontheim Meyer T

Dannine Avara T

Steven Rales T

$5 BIL #270 DALLAS COWBOYS

David Shaw S
$5 BIL #270 HEDGE FUNDS

Jim Davis & family S


$4.9 BIL #286 NEW BALANCE
$4.9 BIL #286 QUICKEN LOANS

Andres Santo Domingo S


Carl Cook T
$4.8 BIL #298 MEDICAL DEVICES

$4.8 BIL #298 PIZZA

Ted Lerner S

Robert Kraft S

$5.5 BIL #233 REAL ESTATE

$4.8 BIL #298 NEW ENGLAND


PATRIOTS

$4.1 BIL #369 PIPELINES

John Doerr S
$4.1 BIL #369 VENTURE CAPITAL

Scott Duncan T
$4.1 BIL #369 PIPELINES

Milane Frantz T
$4.1 BIL #369 PIPELINES

George Roberts T
$4.1 BIL #369 PRIVATE EQUITY

Reinhold Schmieding S

$3.6 BIL #435 INVESTMENTS

Julian Robertson Jr. S


$3.6 BIL #435 HEDGE FUNDS

Harry Stine S
$3.6 BIL #435 AGRICULTURE

Ronda Stryker T
$3.6 BIL #435 MEDICAL
EQUIPMENT
$3.5 BIL #453 SUBWAY
SANDWICH SHOPS

$4.1 BIL #369 PIPELINES

Jin Sook & Do Won Chang T


$4 BIL #380 FASHION RETAIL

James Jannard S
$4 BIL #380 SUNGLASSES

Nancy Walton Laurie T


$4 BIL #380 WAL-MART

Terrence Pegula S

$4.8 BIL #298 REAL ESTATE,


PRIVATE EQUITY

$4 BIL #380 NATURAL GAS

Daniel Ziff T

$4 BIL #380 REAL ESTATE

$4.8 BIL #298 INVESTMENTS

Ira Rennert T

Peter Buck S

Richard Kinder T

Dirk Ziff T

$3.6 BIL #435 MANUFACTURING

Randa Williams T

Sam Zell T

$4.8 BIL #298 INVESTMENTS

$3.6 BIL #435 CARGILL

$4.1 BIL #369 MEDICAL DEVICES

$5.4 BIL #240 TIRES

Ray Lee Hunt T

$3.8 BIL #403 CONSUMER


PRODUCTS

Jerry Jones S

$5.5 BIL #233 RALPH LAUREN

$5.4 BIL #240 DISCOUNT


BROKERAGE

Leandro Rizzuto & family S

$3.6 BIL #435 BLOOD TESTING

Ralph Lauren T

Charles Schwab T

$3.8 BIL #403 HOTELS,


INVESTMENTS

$4.2 BIL #358 AGRICULTURE,


WATER

Jerry Speyer X
Leonard Stern T
$4 BIL #380 REAL ESTATE

Martha Ingram & family T

$5.3 BIL #248 OIL, REAL


ESTATE

Robert Ziff T
$4.8 BIL #298 INVESTMENTS

$3.9 BIL #392 BOOK


DISTRIBUTION, TRANSPORTATION

Bruce Kovner S

Richard DeVos & family T

Rupert Johnson Jr. T

$5.3 BIL #248 HEDGE FUNDS

$4.7 BIL #308 AMWAY

WEALTH STATUS: UP S DOWN TUNCHANGED X NEW + RETURNEE 3 DIVIDED FORTUNE 

144 | FORBES MARCH 21, 2016

$3.8 BIL #403 COMPUTER


SERVICES, REAL ESTATE

Elizabeth Holmes T

Michael & Marian Ilitch


& family X

$5.4 BIL #240 PIPELINES

H. Ross Perot Sr. S

$4.5 BIL #324 MEDIA

Stewart & Lynda Resnick X

$4.9 BIL #286 BEER

$7.3 BIL #159 HEALTH CARE

Sumner Redstone T

$4.2 BIL #358 PRIVATE EQUITY

Pauline MacMillan Keinath T

Thomas Frist Jr. & family T

$3.8 BIL #403 SPORTING GOODS


RETAIL

$4.5 BIL #324 STAR WARS

$5 BIL #270 SELF-STORAGE

Tamara Gustavson & family S

James Goodnight S

Bruce Halle T

John Morris T

George Lucas T

David Duffield T

$8.2 BIL #139 SUPERMARKETS

$7.3 BIL #159 INVESTMENTS

$3.8 BIL #403


PHARMACEUTICALS

$4.5 BIL #324 WAL-MART

Diane Hendricks S

$4.9 BIL #286 BEER

Eli Broad S

Randal Kirk T

Phillip Frost T

Alejandro Santo Domingo S

$7.5 BIL #157 HEDGE FUNDS

Ann Walton Kroenke T

$4.4 BIL #338 HEDGE FUNDS

$5.8 BIL #214 CONSTRUCTION,


MINING

Ken Griffin S

$4.5 BIL #324 PRIVATE EQUITY

$3.9 BIL #392 REAL ESTATE

Stanley Druckenmiller S

Dennis Washington T

$5.6 BIL #228 RETAIL

Leon Black T

$5.1 BIL #262 OIL & GAS

$4.9 BIL #286 INVESTMENTS

David Green T

Sheldon Solow S

$4.6 BIL #317 U-HAUL

$3.9 BIL #392 EBAY

Harold Hamm T

Robert Rowling T

$7.7 BIL #148 SPORTS, REAL


ESTATE

Mark Shoen X

$3.8 BIL #403 UTILITIES,


TELECOM

$5.8 BIL #214 REAL ESTATE

Stanley Kroenke S

Jeffrey Skoll X

$4.4 BIL #338 WHATSAPP

John A. Sobrato & family S

$5.7 BIL #219 CARGILL

$3.9 BIL #392 SOFTWARE

$4.6 BIL #317 MONEY


MANAGEMENT

Brian Acton S

Daniel Gilbert S

$8 BIL #144 SOFTWARE

John Sall S

$5.2 BIL #258 WAL-MART

$5.9 BIL #205 RETAIL & GAS


STATIONS

Hank & Doug Meijer T

$3.9 BIL #392 CAMPBELL SOUP

Charles Johnson T

Christy Walton & family 

Dustin Moskovitz S

$8.6 BIL #129 WHATSAPP

Mary Alice Dorrance


Malone S

$4.7 BIL #308 CARGILL

$4.5 BIL #324 COMPUTER


HARDWARE

Tom & Judy Love S

Jan Koum S

Whitney MacMillan X

$5.2 BIL #258 OIL & GAS

$9 BIL #122 ESTEE LAUDER


$8.9 BIL #124 FACEBOOK

$4.7 BIL #308 HEDGE FUNDS

$3.9 BIL #392 MONEY


MANAGEMENT

Rick Caruso 
$3.5 BIL #453 REAL ESTATE

Dan Friedkin S
$3.5 BIL #453 TOYOTA
DEALERSHIPS

Kieu Hoang S
$3.5 BIL #453 PHARMACEUTICALS

Ronald Lauder T
$3.5 BIL #453 ESTEE LAUDER

Igor Olenicoff T
$3.5 BIL #453 REAL ESTATE

Isaac Perlmutter T
$3.5 BIL #453 MARVEL COMICS

Robert Rich Jr. S


$3.5 BIL #453 FROZEN FOODS

Haim Saban X
$3.5 BIL #453 TV NETWORK,
INVESTMENTS

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THE WORLDS BILLIONAIRES

UNITED STATES

Mark Cuban S

Wilbur Ross Jr. T

A. Jerrold Perenchio T

Daniel DAniello T

$3.2 BIL #527 ONLINE MEDIA

$2.9 BIL #595 INVESTMENTS

$2.3 BIL #771 PRIVATE EQUITY

Steven Spielberg T

Marianne Liebmann T

Howard Schultz S

$2.6 BIL #666 TELEVISION,


UNIVISION

$3.2 BIL #527 CARGILL

$2.9 BIL #595 STARBUCKS

Henry Samueli S

$2.3 BIL #771 ONLINE MEDIA

Steven Udvar-Hazy T
$3.5 BIL #453 AIRCRAFT LEASING

Neil Bluhm S

Kevin Plank S

Robert Bass S

$3.2 BIL #527 UNDER ARMOUR

$2.8 BIL #612 OIL, INVESTMENTS

Anthony Pritzker T

Peter Kellogg T

$3.2 BIL #527 HOTELS,


INVESTMENTS

$2.8 BIL #612 INVESTMENTS

$3.4 BIL #477 OIL, REAL ESTATE

Jay Robert (J.B.) Pritzker T

Mitchell Rales T

$3.2 BIL #527 HOTELS,


INVESTMENTS

$2.8 BIL #612 BANKING, REAL


ESTATE

$3.4 BIL #477 REAL ESTATE

John Catsimatidis S

$3.4 BIL #477 MANUFACTURING,


INVESTMENTS

Lynn Schusterman T
$3.4 BIL #477 OIL & GAS,
INVESTMENTS

Bernard Saul II S

Herbert Simon T

Ken Fisher S
$3.1 BIL #549 MONEY
MANAGEMENT

$2.5 BIL #688 IT CONSULTING

Henry Hillman X

Don Hankey X
$2.3 BIL #771 AUTO LOANS

Jimmy Haslam T
$2.3 BIL #771 GAS STATIONS,
RETAIL

James Irsay S
$2.3 BIL #771 INDIANAPOLIS COLTS

John Pritzker S
$2.3 BIL #771 HOTELS,
INVESTMENTS

Penny Pritzker T
$2.3 BIL #771 HOTELS,
INVESTMENTS

Stephen Mandel Jr. S

Michael Rubin T

$2.5 BIL #688 HEDGE FUNDS

$2.3 BIL #771 ONLINE RETAIL

$2.7 BIL #638 ENGINEERING,


CONSTRUCTION

Michael Milken X

Patrick Ryan T

$2.5 BIL #688 INVESTMENTS

$2.3 BIL #771 INSURANCE

Andrew & Peggy Cherng T

Gary Rollins S

Pat Stryker S

$2.7 BIL #638 RESTAURANTS

$2.5 BIL #688 PEST CONTROL

Robert Duggan S

Randall Rollins S

$2.3 BIL #771 MEDICAL


EQUIPMENT

$2.7 BIL #638 PHARMACEUTICALS

$2.5 BIL #688 PEST CONTROL

Kenneth Langone S

Robert Smith 

$2.7 BIL #638 INVESTMENTS

$2.5 BIL #688 PRIVATE EQUITY

Tom Benson & family S

James Leprino T

William Wrigley Jr. T

$2.2 BIL #810 NEW


ORLEANS SAINTS

$2.7 BIL #638 CHEESE

$2.5 BIL #688 CHEWING GUM

John Middleton 

Mortimer Zuckerman T

$2.7 BIL #638 TOBACCO

$2.5 BIL #688 REAL ESTATE,


MEDIA

$3.4 BIL #477 REAL ESTATE

J. Christopher Reyes T

Russ Weiner S

$3.1 BIL #549 FOOD


DISTRIBUTION

Stephen Bechtel Jr. T

Jude Reyes T
David Siegel 

Bharat Desai & Neerja


Sethi T

Barry Diller X

$2.5 BIL #688 INVESTMENTS

$2.7 BIL #638 ENGINEERING,


CONSTRUCTION

$3.1 BIL #549 FOOD DISTRIBUTION

$2.5 BIL #688 PRIVATE EQUITY

Romesh T. Wadhwani S

$3.1 BIL #549 HEDGE FUNDS

$3.3 BIL #495 BUSINESS


SOFTWARE

David Bonderman T

$2.5 BIL #688 PAYROLL


SERVICES

Jeff Sutton S

Marc Benioff T

$2.5 BIL #688 HEDGE FUNDS

Tom Golisano S

Riley Bechtel T

$3.4 BIL #477 ENERGY DRINKS

John Arnold T

$2.8 BIL #612 REAL ESTATE


$2.8 BIL #612 SOFTWARE

John Overdeck 

$2.6 BIL #666 SEMICONDUCTORS

Nathan Blecharczyk S

$3.1 BIL #549 HEDGE FUNDS

$3.3 BIL #495 AIRBNB

Frederick Smith T

Bubba Cathy S

$3.1 BIL #549 FEDEX

$3.3 BIL #495 CHICK-FIL-A

Donald Sterling S

Dan Cathy S

$3.1 BIL #549 REAL ESTATE

$3.3 BIL #495 CHICK-FIL-A

Roger Wang T

Brian Chesky S

$3.1 BIL #549 RETAIL

$3.3 BIL #495 AIRBNB

Stephen Bisciotti S

Edward DeBartolo Jr. T

$3 BIL #569 OUTSOURCING,


FOOTBALL

David Murdock T

Jack Dangermond S

$2.7 BIL #638 DOLE,


REAL ESTATE

George Bishop T

$3 BIL #569 MAPPING


SOFTWARE

Thomas Pritzker T

Jim Breyer S

Dagmar Dolby & family T

$2.7 BIL #638 HOTELS,


INVESTMENTS

$2.4 BIL #722 VENTURE CAPITAL

$3 BIL #569 DOLBY


LABORATORIES

Peter Thiel S

$2.4 BIL #722 HEDGE FUND

Min Kao & family T

Bennett Dorrance S

$2.7 BIL #638 FACEBOOK,


PALANTIR

Judy Faulkner T

$2.2 BIL #810 NAVIGATION


EQUIPMENT

$3.3 BIL #495 SHOPPING


CENTERS

Joe Gebbia S
$3.3 BIL #495 AIRBNB

Tom Gores S
$3.3 BIL #495 PRIVATE EQUITY

Jeff Greene S
$3.3 BIL #495 REAL ESTATE,
INVESTMENTS

H. Fisk Johnson S
$3.3 BIL #495 CLEANING
PRODUCTS

Imogene Powers Johnson S


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Celebrates
Womens Leadership
2016 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland

Honorees from the Forbes


100 Most Powerful Women List:
MARY BARRA, CEO, General Motors Company
ANA BOTIN, Executive Chairman, Banco Santander, S.A.

In recognition of the critical role women


leaders play in shaping and advancing
the global economy, Moira Forbes and
Mark Weinberger, Global Chairman
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this years honorees.

BETH BROOKE-MARCINIAK, Global Vice Chair, Public Policy, EY


HON. HELEN CLARK, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme
ERTHARIN COUSIN, Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, President & Editor-in-Chief, The Huffington Post Media Group
CHRISTINE LAGARDE, Managing Director, IMF
SHERYL SANDBERG, COO & Member of the Board, Facebook Inc
Top (Left to Right): Mark Weinberger, Moira Forbes, Hon. Helen Clark, Beth Brooke-Marciniak, Ertharin Cousin,
Arianna Huffington, Sheryl Sandberg, Ana Botin, Mary Barra
Bottom (Left to Right): Beth Brooke-Marciniak, Christine Lagarde, Moira Forbes; Mark Weinberger, Moira Forbes,
Beth Brooke-Marciniak, Arianna Huffington, Sheryl Sandberg; Mary Barra; Arianna Huffington, Mike Perlis

Its been a great privilege to partner


with EY here in Davos for the past 10
years to honor such an accomplished
group of female leaders.
Moira Forbes, EVP,
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS

$1 BIL #1694 HEARING AIDS

Peter Alfond 

Dan Wilks T

$1.1 BIL #1577 SHOES

$1.3 BIL #1367 NATURAL GAS

Susan Alfond 

Farris Wilks T

$1.1 BIL #1577 SHOES

$1.3 BIL #1367 NATURAL GAS

Ted Alfond 

Evan Williams T

$1.1 BIL #1577 SHOES

$1.3 BIL #1367 TWITTER

Thomas Bailey X

Elaine Wynn T

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MANAGEMENT

$1.3 BIL #1367 CASINOS, HOTELS

$1.1 BIL #1577 INVESTMENTS


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$1.2 BIL #1476 EDUCATION

Wilma Tisch T

Brian Sheth 
E. Joe Shoen X

Peter Sperling T

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Stephen Feinberg T

Fred Chang X
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Leon Charney X
$1 BIL #1694 REAL ESTATE

Robert Citrone X
$1 BIL #1694 HEDGE FUND

Jack Dorsey T
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METHODOLOGY
The FORBES Billionaires list is a snapshot of wealth taken
on Feb. 12, when we locked in stock prices and exchange
rates from around the world. It lists individuals rather than
multigenerational families who share large fortunes. We include wealth belonging to a billionaires spouse and children if that person is the founder of the fortune. In some
cases we list siblings or couples together if the ownership
breakdown among them isnt clear, but here an estimated net worth of $1 billion per person is needed to make the
cut. We value a variety of assets and stakes, including private companies, real estate, art, yachts and more. We dont
pretend to know each billionaires private balance sheet
(though some provide it). In cases where documentation
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see Forbes.com/billionaires.

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BILLIONAIRES: 3
TOTAL NET WORTH:
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GDP: $193.4 BIL


POPULATION: 93 MIL
BILLIONAIRES: 1
TOTAL NET WORTH: $1.8
BIL (+$100 MIL VS. 2015)

CARACAS
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Juan Carlos Escotet S

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VENUS WILLIAMS

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KNUTE ROCKNE

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

RUDYARD KIPLING

FINAL
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No valleys, no
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CORRECTION: IN THOUGHTS ON
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