CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) — In a roundabout way, the latest Forbes magazine ranking of the world's billionaires can help you become a better investor. But not by catering to your greed in hopes that someday you too could be on that rarefied list …

NEW YORK — Oracle CEO Larry Ellison remains the world's wealthiest Jew, placing fifth on Forbes magazine's annual world billionaires list for 2014. Meanwhile, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg (ranked at No. 21) was the “biggest dollar gainer” on the list …

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Forbes is out with its 28th list of the richest people in the world and there are 4 Indiana names on that list. The rich get richer, is probably the best way to characterize this year's Forbes billionaire list. Last year, all the …

The cover of the Forbes Billionaires List issue back in 1996 asked the question: “Is the 21st the Asian Century?” In the five years to 1996, the U.S. share of the world's billionaires had edged down to 33% from 35%. Asia, including Japan, had increased …

Apparently nobody is safe from the unstoppable Hexxus that is hyper-gentrification—not even one of the wealthiest areas of the country, Silicon Valley. According to an absurd quote that went viral over the weekend via a tweet by Tikhon Bernstam, (that …

The boardroom battles waged by the activist investor Carl C. Icahn have drawn comparisons to poker. But Mr. Icahn apparently prefers to think of his career in terms of a different game: Monopoly. On Sunday evening, he posted a photograph to Twitter …

A secretive 24-year-old woman from Hong Kong recently took the title of world's youngest billionaire, according to Forbes' latest data, displacing 29-year-old Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz.

India to produce more billionaires by 2023: Knight Frank. India to witness more billionaires than countries such as the UK, Germany, Hong Kong and France by 2023, says Knight Frank Wealth Report 2014. Knight Frank India · Expertise : Property · More …

In 2013, the super-PAC-armed billionaire dropped seven figures to elect Democratic Sen. Edward Markey in Massachusetts and then an additional $11 million on climate-themed advertising to boost new Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe in Virginia. "He really …