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Ambani Leads $200 Billion Loss Among India’s Richest

Filed under Lists and Statistics, Mukesh Ambani - Reliance Group, Lakshmi Mittal - Mittal Steel
November 13, 2008 9:33 pm

 Mukesh Ambani and Lakshmi Mittal led India’s richest in losing $200 billion this year as the global financial crisis triggered a plunge in stocks and property values, Forbes Asia said.The ... Read more »

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Slump in stockmarkets wipes out two-thirds of China’s billionaires

Filed under Lists and Statistics, failures
November 2, 2008 1:00 pm

More than 40 impoverished Chinese tycoons, who have lost their platinum status thanks to the world’s financial turmoil.Louis Vuitton, Cartier and Bentley should perhaps be bracing themselves for leaner times. ... Read more »

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Conde Nast publishes Billionaire Generosity Index

Filed under Lists and Statistics, Philanthrophy
October 15, 2008 9:19 pm

In the upper tier of philanthropy, it’s not just about the cause and the gift. It’s about outdoing the other guy. Here is Condé Nast Portfolio’s look at which billionaires are giving the most, relative to their wealth; which are giving the least; and who is refusing to say read the rest here: http://www.portfolio.com/executives/features/2008/10/15/Wealth-and-Charity-Index

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Abramovich, Deripaska, Oligarchs Lose $230 Billion

Filed under Lists and Statistics, failures
October 10, 2008 8:35 pm

Russian billionaires from aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska to soccer-club owner Roman Abramovich lost more than $230 billion in five months during the nation’s worst financial crisis since the 1998 default ... Read more »

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China Annual Billionaire List Shrinks Due To Volatile Economy

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October 7, 2008 8:23 pm

 A 39-year-old appliance tycoon known as the “Price Butcher” is China’s richest man, according to a list published Tuesday that reflected how plummeting stock and property prices have slashed fortunes. ... Read more »

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Asia’s Youngest Billionaires

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September 6, 2008 5:04 pm

 At this summer’s Olympics, Michael Phelps scored in the pool, Usain Bolt on the track and Ma Huateng at the bank. Huateng is the founder of Tencent and is a ... Read more »

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The World’s Youngest Women Billionaires

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July 25, 2008 7:33 pm

 One of the most exclusive groups of billionaires more than tripled its ranks this year. The number of young billionaire women under the age of 40 jumped to seven from ... Read more »

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Tycoons who aim to keep it in the family

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July 1, 2008 6:38 pm

 Hong Kong, the 10 richest families have a total estimated net worth of more than US$120bn, as calculated by Forbes. Half of them, including Li Ka-shing, Asia’s richest man and ... Read more »

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Indian billionaire tops British rich list

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April 27, 2008 6:57 pm

The collective wealth of Britain’s 1,000 richest people went up by nearly 15 percent last year, and more than half the country’s 75 billionaires are foreign-born, according to a list ... Read more »

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Russia: The World’s Richest Government

Filed under Lists and Statistics, Politics
April 1, 2008 5:10 pm

Russia had the second-highest number of billionaires in the world this year, but when it comes to wealth in government, the former Soviet Union is clearly No. 1. Twelve billionaires ... Read more »

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Moscow becomes world’s ‘billionaire’ capital: Forbes

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March 7, 2008 5:05 pm

 Moscow has become the world’s billionaire capital, with 74 billionaires with an average wealth of 5.9 billion dollars, upstaging New York, according to the Forbes.  New York has 71 billionaires, followed by London with 36, Istanbul  with 34, and Hong Kong with 30. see the whole list here: http://www.forbes.com/2008/03/05/richest-people-billionaires-billionaires08-cx_lk_0305billie_land.html

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Facebook founder youngest sef-made billionare ever

Filed under Lists and Statistics, Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook
March 6, 2008 2:15 pm

Zuckerberg, who turns 24 in May, is worth $1.5 billion four years after launching the social networking site Facebook.  Nothing beats being young and rich. Here are the world’s 10 youngest billionaires. They include a former Enron oil trader, a German prince and China’s richest woman. published by Forbes here: http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/2008/03/05/youngest-billionaires-rich-billionaires08-cx_lk_0305youngest_slide.html

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Buffett Passes Gates as Richest Person, Forbes Says

Filed under Lists and Statistics, Bill Gates - Microsoft, Warren Buffett - Berkshire Hathaway
March 5, 2008 11:46 pm

Warren Buffett beat out Bill Gates for the top spot on Forbes magazine’s annual list of billionaires worldwide, ending a 13- year reign for Microsoft Corp.’s co-founder.  Buffett’s wealth increased $10 billion to about $62 billion in the 12 months through Feb. 11, mostly from a gain in his company’s shares.  See the 2008 Forbe´s  Billionaires list here:  http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/billionaires08_The-Worlds-Billionaires_Rank.html

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Rinat Akhmetov is the richest person of Ukraine by version of Focus magazine

Filed under Lists and Statistics, Rinat Akhmetov
February 29, 2008 8:25 pm

According to the version of Focus magazine, Rinat Akhmetov heads the rating of the richest people of Ukraine with a fortune at 14.62 billion dollars.       Chief editor of Focus ... Read more »

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Oligarch Oleg Deripaska rated Russia’s richest man, leaves Abramovich behind

Filed under Lists and Statistics, Oleg Deripaska - Basic element, Roman Abramovich
February 18, 2008 3:42 pm

The owner of Basic Element holding, Oleg Deripaska, has seized the title of Russia’s richest man from Chukotka Governor Roman Abramovich who previously topped the list during the recent several ... Read more »

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Politics Of The Billionaires

Filed under Lists and Statistics, Politics
February 2, 2008 3:46 pm

Forbes has just published  a list of billionaires active in politics either via their donations or outright endorsments of politicians.  As expected most of the donations/support is to Democrats.     ... Read more »

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Most-generous donors contributed $7.3-billion in 2007

Filed under Lists and Statistics, Philanthrophy, George Soros - Soros Fund Management, Barron Hilton, Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
January 25, 2008 6:59 pm

Twenty donors made gifts of $100-million or more last year, just shy of the record of 21 such gifts made in 2006, according to The Chronicle’s annual ranking of the ... Read more »

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The Richest People You’ve Never Heard Of

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January 22, 2008 8:37 pm

Mmost people know of billionaires like corporate financier Carl Icahn, Hong Kong business magnate Li Ka-shing and Italian media mogul and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi But what of Susanne ... Read more »

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The Football Billionaires

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January 18, 2008 4:36 pm

If the NFL were just about money, the Seattle Seahawks would never lose the Super Bowl. And they’d be playing the Miami Dolphins or the Tampa Bay Bucs for the ... Read more »

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Li Ka-shing named Hong Kong’s richest man

Filed under Lists and Statistics, Li Ka-shing - Hutchinson Whampoa
January 17, 2008 7:56 pm

More than a decade after Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule, the former British colony is still churning out billionaires _ defying critics who thought the communist takeover would quash ... Read more »

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