World’s Richest

No more Trump BFF, Elon Musk nearly recovers wealth lost earlier this year

Elon Musk's net worth has rebounded to around $430 billion after a rocky year of political controversies, Tesla stock swings, and a public falling-out with US President Donald Trump

Musk regains world's richest title after briefly losing it to Larry Ellison

Elon Musk first became the world's richest person in 2021, briefly lost the spot to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault, then reclaimed the title last year

Larry Ellison overtakes Elon Musk to become world's richest person

Oracle co-founder Ellison's current total net worth stands at $393 billion, surpassing Tesla chief Elon Musk, whose fortune totals around $385 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index

Carlos Slim invested $1 billion in 2024 to supercharge crude oil bets

Slim now owns 24.2 per cent of Talos, prompting the board in October to introduce a poison pill to prevent him from acquiring more than a quarter of the stock

Zhang Yiming tops China's rich list, but Mukesh Ambani still leads Asia

India is riding high, adding more billionaires than ever and outpacing China's wealth growth

World's top 1% gained $42 trillion in a decade, taxes at record lows: Oxfam

The amount is 36 times greater than the wealth accumulated by the poorest half of the world's population, and nearly 80 per cent of the world's billionaires reside in G20 countries

Forbes Billionaires list 2024: India's 10 richest people

American business magazine Forbes released its "Forbes World's Billionaires List 2024", which features 200 Indians, up from 169 last year. The total wealth of these Indian billionaires is a record $95

Bernard Arnault replaces Jeff Bezos as world's richest at $197 bn net worth

Bernard Arnault and Jeff Bezos are followed by Elon Musk at the third spot after the latest shuffle. Musk, who had been reigning the first spot for over 9 months, lost the title to Bezos on Tuesday

Combined net worth of 500 richest surges by $1.5 trn in 2023, Musk leads

No one did better than Elon Musk, who recaptured the title of world's richest person from French luxury tycoon Bernard Arnault. The Tesla chief executive officer netted an additional $95.4 billion

Heirs beat self-made billionaires for the first time: UBS Group AG

Of the 137 people who became billionaires last year, 53 inherited fortunes amounting to a combined $150.8 billion, according to a study published on Thursday

Bill Gates used to fly economy even when he was worth $40 billion. Know why

Here's the reason why Microsoft founder Bill Gates chose not to fly economy class on an aircraft. Read on to find out

Europe's richest royal family builds nearly $300 billion finance empire

"We continue to look," Olivier de Perregaux, 58, chief executive officer of LGT Private Banking, said in a recent interview. "We are, however, primarily focusing on organic growth."

Musk, Zuckerberg lead a $852 billion surge among world's richest people

Each member of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index made an average of $14 million per day over the past six months, according to data compiled by Bloomberg

Oracle founder surpasses Bill Gates to be world's 4th richest person

Ellison announced he was stepping down as Oracle CEO in 2014, though he didn't leave the company

Bernard regains world's richest person title, Musk slips to 2nd place

Elon Musk surpassed Bernard Arnault, CEO of luxury brand Louis Vuitton's parent company LVMH, to regain the title of the world's richest person only for a brief period before losing the tag again

New York world's richest city with most millionaires in 2023: Report

China has two of its cities (Beijing and Shanghai) in the list. The report covers 97 cities across nine regions worldwide

Tesla's Elon Musk may soon recapture world's richest person title

The disclosure comes as Musk, 51, has narrowed the gap to Arnault to less than $10 billion amid signs of growing demand for Tesla's electric vehicles.

Mukesh Ambani joins the list of global rich with family office in Singapore

Asia's second-wealthiest man, Reliance Industries Ltd. Chairman Mukesh Ambani, is setting up a family office in Singapore, according to people familiar with the move.

Gautam Adani overtakes Jeff Bezos to become world's second richest

Gautam Adani's wealth surged to make him the second richest man in the world, led by a sharp rally in the Adani Group stocks.

Adani Group companies contributed 79 per cent in total m-cap gain in 2022

While the m-cap of all the listed companies on the BSE has risen by Rs 12.74 trillion, seven listed companies of the Adani Group account for Rs 10.05 trillion of this, the report added