Middle-aged industrial magnates who were trained to head conglomerates from an early age commanded a majority in Korea, but Japanese billionaires were either elderly or they were young leaders who founded their own information technology-related …

London comes third overall for breeding billionaires, behind New York (3.09 per cent) and Moscow (1.31 per cent). Meanwhile Hong Kong and Istanbul make up the remainder of the Top Five. All Top Five cities have produced at least ten billionaires, with …

Quiet careers in business, at the periphery of Wall Street, New York real estate and the insurance industry, with an aversion to publicity that is rarely seen, have made both men billionaires, according to Forbes magazine. Like many rich people, the …

Two decades, a name change and a whole lot of caffeine later, the partners have emerged as billionaires as their company, Monster Beverage, agreed to sell a 17 per cent stake to Coca-Cola on Thursday for $2.15 billion. The stock jumped 30 per cent to …

To date, billionaires and millionaires have given $3.4 million in support of the gun control initiative. These supporters include Steve and Connie Ballmer ($580,000), Nick and Lenore Hanauer ($490,000), and Bill and Melinda Gates ($50,000), among others.

The connection between UANI and a billionaire gold evangelist might seem strange, but Kaplan's promotion of precious metals is often coupled with dire predictions about coming geopolitical unrest. Kaplan, a Francophile New York philanthropist with a …

Elin Nordegren, the woman who defines the term jilted ex-wife (hello, Tiger Woods), recently split with billionaire boyfriend Christopher Cline. The reason for the breakup? Well, we're not exactly sure where the rift started, but Page Six reports that …

2014 816 epw fw Republican minority, Senator David Vitter (right), on the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works accuses environmental billionaires on colluding with EPA, August 6, 2014. (Screengrab: Senator David Vitter / YouTube).

There are 103 billionaires in a country of 1.2 billion people. Collectively, these 103 people control US$180 billion. This shows that the top five have a staggering 47.5 per cent share of the total billionaire wealth. The figures are from 2013, the …