A new study from Wealth-X and UBS finds that the global population of billionaires has surged past 2,000. Their combined wealth totals $6.5 trillion—more than the combined gross domestic product of France and Germany. Previous estimates placed the …

After they sold H.J. Heinz to Warren Buffett and a bunch of Brazilians in June, the ketchup manufacturer's outgoing board of directors met for dinner at Pittsburgh's Duquesne Club to congratulate themselves on a job well done. Twenty-three billion …

Brazil's 124 billionaires own 12.3% of GDP and half the population lives on 130 dollars per month. The 124 richest people in Brazil hold assets totalling 544 billion Reais equivalent to 238.6bn dollars or 12.3% of the country's GDP, which is considered …

What do billionaires have in common? What is it that they do better than anyone else? Why do we admire them, or their companies' products and services, so much? I've spent some time trying to identify common traits in the Forbes list of billionaires …

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 10 (BERNAMA- NNN-MERCOPRESS) — The 124 richest people in Brazil hold assets totalling 544 billion Reais equivalent to US$238.6bn or 12.3% of the country's GDP, which is considered one of the most unequal in the world.

BEIJING, China: Fans across the world know him for his martial arts prowess but few are aware that Hollywood action-man Jet Li http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Jet-Li has another side to him. Li's One Foundation — which he founded after he …

But what struck me besides the quality of the discussions onstage were the attendees themselves and the dynamic of the group in general. Sometimes it is easy to judge this group of billionaires only by their impossibly large numbers … their rank on …

Vanity Fair has a story coming in its next issue about tech millionaires and billionaires moving into a very expensive section of San Francisco that was previously home to old-money types. It teased the story this morning with an excerpt. For the most …

Armed with a family recipe and a flair for marketing, C. James “Jim” Koch popularized craft beer in the U.S. and turned Boston Beer Co. into the second-largest American-owned brewery. It also made him a billionaire, as frothy sales of his flagship …