Gold and fixed income investments hold no appeal for billionaire Nathan “Natie” Kirsh, the owner of Jetro Holdings Inc. Real estate is more attractive, although you have to choose carefully. And if you want to invest in art, Kirsh says, you need an …

For those who can't attend in person, meanwhile, Raghavan's talk will also be a free live video webcast on AsiaSociety.org/Live at 6:30 pm ET; online viewers are encouraged to submit questions to [email protected]. An excerpt from The …

Anna Nicole Smith's young daughter is set for a bumper payday after a judge ruled the six year old is entitled to sanctions from the estate of the late model's billionaire former husband, J. Howard Marshall. The oil tycoon was married to Smith for a …

China had the second largest number of billionaires – 122 – after the United States on this year's billionaires list. Zong Qinghou, the founder of China's biggest homegrown beverage producer Wahaha, ranked No. 1 among mainland Chinese with wealth of …

Mainland China ranked second to the U.S. on the 2013 Forbes Billionaires List with 122 billionaires. DHC's revenue rose 35% in 2012 to $570 million. Net profit climbed by 35% to $93 million. Xue, 54, is a graduate of Hunan University. He ranked No. 128 …

June 3 (Bloomberg) — Bloomberg's Peter Newcomb talks about the personal wealth of Bass Pro Shops founder John "Johnny" Morris. Morris has never appeared on an international wealth ranking, and has a net worth of at least $2.8 billion, according to the …

New York: Financial journalist Anita Raghavan's book, The Billionaire's Apprentice, is a fascinating account of the takedown of Galleon founder Raj Rajaratnam and the self-destruction of Rajat Gupta, who had reached the highest echelons of corporate …

Many thanks to Peter Rudegeair for pulling this data from Factiva: it shows how often the word “billionaire” has appeared in headlines from 1984 to date. We're looking, here, only at three publications: the NYT, the WSJ, and Reuters News. (And we're …

Liberia: America's Billionaires Discuss Liberia's Future. 10 June 2013. Liberia and its President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, were centerpiece on Wednesday, June 5, at the 2nd Forbes 400 Philanthropy Summit, a gathering of 150 of the world's richest men …