1. Forbes' richest Americans: the top 10 'money mavericks'

   08 October 2009

   This year’s Forbes 400 list of the richest ... Sandy Weill, the former chairman and chief executive ... The following extracts from Forbes’ list concern those ... 15. George Soros, $13bn, chairman of Soros Fund ... “America's wealthiest hedge fund manager stepping up philanthropy:...

2. The next generation of billionaires

   20 March 2009

   It's been a miserable year for the world's ... Thirty eight people entered the list as new ... Thirty-nine year old Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahayan ... He also chairs the state's oil-oriented sovereign wealth ... Aloys Webeen, a 57-year old German entrepreneur who ... Zhou Chengjian and family is the richest of...

3. Trillions wiped off billionaires' wealth

   12 March 2009

   The combined wealth of the world's super rich ... The total wealth of the world's billionaires now ... Microsoft founder Bill Gates reclaimed the title as ... Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City, was ... Russia, hit heavily by the market volatility of ... For the full list, see below....

4. Apparel tycoon becomes Japan's richest man

   20 February 2009

   The owner of affordable clothing retailer Uniqlo, Tadashi ... The Japanese tycoon added $1.4 billion to his ... But many of Yanai's peers have not been ... Japan's 40 wealthiest are now worth a combined ... Everyone in the top ten excluding Yanai and ... Yanai knocked Nintendo's Hiroshi Yamauchi off top spot,...

5. Deripaska tumbles off Russian rich list, replaced by Prokhorov

   17 February 2009

   Oleg Deripaska, formerly Russia's richest man, has fallen ... Prokhorov was worth $14.1bn at the end of ... Deripaska, the majority shareholder of aluminum producer Rusal, ... The number of dollar billionaires more than halved ... Prokhorov, 43, outstripped Vladimir Potanin, 48, for the...

6. Troubled German Billionaire Merckle Killed Himself - Family

   07 January 2009

   BERLIN (AFP)--German billionaire Adolf Merckle, whose industrial empire ... "The plight of his firms caused by the ... Merckle, 74, headed the world's 94th biggest fortune,...

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