Some of the sortings are heartening: There are more self-made men than born-rich kids in the top 50, and the self-made billionaires' total wealth is bigger. Some are less so: The entire African continent has the same number of billionaires as Canada …

“We've had offers of around 25 million pounds, but they aren't quite high enough,” says Noel de Keyzer, a veteran broker for Savills Plc (SVS), a London-based real estate agency. We are standing in a surprisingly sunlit subterranean family room beneath …

The world has emerged from a global financial crisis with more billionaires than ever in 2013, according to the Wealth-X and UBS Billionaire census released last week, which counted 2,170 billionaires globally. With more billionaires on every continent …

Matthew Yglesias recently pointed out that Sweden has more billionaires per capita than the United States on Forbes' annual ranking of the world's richest individuals. In 2013, Sweden had 1.47 billionaires per million inhabitants, compared with 1.41 …

The Wall Street Journal has a vaguely interesting list of the ten things billionaires won't tell you. It's more of a list of things you might not know about billionaires rather than secrets they won't reveal. It's the usual sort of thing: you're more …

So far 115 billionaires have bought Buffett's argument and signed the Giving Pledge. Ages range from 27 to 98. Some inherited wealth, but most are self-made. Their businesses range from technology and social media… to pizza, hair care and home …

Filipino billionaires are in a generous mood, contributing in cash and in kind to the massive relief and rehabilitation efforts to bring back Leyte, Eastern Samar and other provinces in central Philippines devastated by Supertyphoon “Yolanda.” The No …

Billionaires across the globe on Friday flew to Da Nang central city in their private planes for a financial and tourism conference. The event was held at the InterContinental Da Nang Sun Peninsula Resort in Son Tra peninsula and was allegedly hosted …

BOSTON — Emerging-market billionaires, driven by vanity, easy money from the world's central banks and a quest for safe investments, are taking the contemporary art market to new heights. Art collectors made news for a second straight night on …