Harkin and Iowa Democrats are getting heavy duty support for that task from Tom Steyer, a billionaire hedge fund manager who has glommed onto climate change as his pet cause. Toward that end he is pouring money into a number of campaigns to elect …

George Soros. While George Soros hasn't made public comments to this effect, the billionaire's family office has increased the number of S&P 500 ETF (ETF: SPY) puts it holds to $2.2 billion — equivalent to 17 percent of the fund's assets under management.

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The solar system is increasingly becoming a niche club for billionaires, angel investors and major investment funds. Amazon Inc. AMZN, +1.19% CEO Jeff Bezos became the third billionaire to join the fight to control the so …

They like to hang with other billionaires: They have relationships with nine ultra-high net worth individuals, three of whom are billionaires. They're mostly male: Just 286 of them are women. They're self-made: About 87% of male billionaires have at …

The “People's” Climate March, not to be confused with the open-air gulag UN member-state known as the People's Democratic Republic of Korea, is set to take place on September 21, the day before UN “climate dignitaries” converge in New York to plot a …

The spending habits of moguls and billionaires run the gamut from staggeringly large investments to relatively cheap indulgences. Using a completely non-scientific method, VF.com assembled a matrix of purchases made by current and former members of …

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said over the weekend that his top priority was overturning the Supreme Court's Citizen's United decision because he did not believe that U.S. armed forces had “fought and died for democracy so that billionaires can buy …

It forecasts the number of people in China with personal wealth topping 10 million yuan would reach 1.2 million in the next three years. In 2013, 20 more Chinese had fortunes topping Rmb10bn than in 2012. The number of billionaires on China's mainland …

A Barclays' survey of over 2,000 individuals with a net worth over $1.5 billion contains some pretty interesting results. Those in China and Singapore are most likely to leave their country, while those in the US and India were most likely to stay …