This Month
Mathieson piles heat on Endeavour chairman to step down
‘I am not going to sit by and watch this great company fail due to poor leadership,’ says billionaire pubs owner.
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- Carrie LaFrenz and Simon Evans
Billionaires fight it out to join $56,750 a year gym – with no showers
Billed as New York’s most Instagrammed fitness centre, Dogpound counts A-list stars such as Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift and Cindy Crawford among its customers.
- Susie Coen
September
Oh brother, I’m back in the American heartland
Billionaire Anthony Pratt takes the Rear Window columnist to Kentucky, where he finds a Democrat governor campaigning in Republican territory.
- Joe Aston
No other investor has a life story as unbelievable as Li Lu
The inside story of a radical who fled Tiananmen made billions betting on China.
- Eleanor Olcott
- Exclusive
- Mike Cannon-Brookes
British billionaire Guy Hands eyed Sun Cable investment, emails reveal
The British billionaire’s Consolidated Pastoral has been forced to hand over leases to Mike Cannon-Brookes after a lengthy private dispute.
- Primrose Riordan
Mohamed Al Fayed, former Harrods owner, dies aged 94
Mohamed Al Fayed, the Egyptian businessman whose son was killed in a car crash with Princess Diana, died this week.
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- Elsa Maishman
August
How Jordan nets greater wealth from basketball
The NBA legend has boosted his fortune to a massive $5.5 billion, cementing his place in the ranks of billionaire athletes.
- Amanda Albright and Devon Pendleton
This EV maker you’ve probably never heard of just made $60b in a day
Vietnamese billionaire Pham Nhat Vuong increased his fortune from a little over $8 billion to $60 billion when the car maker he owns 99 per cent of listed in the US.
- Anders Melin
Italy stands ready to host as Musk talks up Zuckerberg rumble
Italy’s Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano says he has spoken to Elon Musk about hosting a “large charitable and historically evocative event”.
- Reuters
Asia’s billionaires lose big in China property crisis
The chair of Chinese property developer Country Gardens has seen her fortune shrink by $44 billion. But she is not the biggest loser in China’s property slump.
- Diana Li
Buffett is making a killing from ESG – but not the way you think
The billionaire accelerated investments in oil and gas as others reduce holdings because of concerns over the sector’s environmental, social and governance performance.
- Kevin Crowley and Max Reyes
July
‘I love the negative feedback’: Musk dumps Twitter’s bird for ‘X’
The billionaire will replace the famed logo with an “X” in a move that may be part of a strategy to squeeze Twitter into an “everything app” that would include a payment system.
- Joseph Menn and Marianna Sotomayor
How the super-rich are turning professionals into servants
An increasing number of experts, such as financial advisers, have become exclusive to the uber-wealthy, who pay to wall them away from the rest of the world.
- Howard Chua-Eoan
This tiny emirate wants to be the next haven for billionaires
The ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, a northern territory of the United Arab Emirates, has big plans for his small nation.
- Ben Bartenstein and Alexander Sazonov
- Opinion
- Opinion
Please make the Musk-Zuck cage fight real – CEOs are too boring
The real story of the supposed stoush between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk is just how unusual white-collar rumbles now are.
- Stuart Kirk
June
Billionaire cage fight: Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg arrange combat
In one of the most ludicrous stories of the year, the tech billionaires appear set to climb into the ring for a fight, after online comments about rival products spiralled.
- Paul Smith
Australia top spot for millionaires over UAE, Singapore
Australia will surpass the UAE to attract the greatest inflows of high-net-worth individuals this year, as China sees the biggest exodus of millionaires.
- Venus Feng
George Soros hands control of $37b empire to his ‘more political’ son
Alex Soros, 37, who will now run his billionaire father’s Open Society Foundations, said he was concerned about Donald Trump’s potential White House run.
- Amanda Cantrell
Elon Musk is the world’s richest person again as Bernard Arnault sinks
The Tesla chief executive officer surpassed the luxury tycoon this week after shares of Mr Arnault’s LVMH fell 2.6 per cent in Paris trading.
- Devon Pendleton
May
Bill Gates’ alleged Russian lover linked with Kremlin spy
The billionaire’s alleged mistress was an acquaintance of Anna Chapman, a member of a Kremlin spy ring who was exposed as a sleeper agent and deported from the US.
- Rozina Sabur
