03/20/2015
Brazil’s Esteves Wealth Sinks Most Among Banker Billionaires
Andre Esteves, the chairman of Grupo BTG Pactual, has shed $650 million from his fortune this year
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03/20/2015
Billionaire's Hamptons hideaway got torched
While the cause of the fire remains unclear, crews began knocking what was left of the house down at 5pm, and by Thursday morning there was nothing but the burnt out shell of the former estate.
03/20/2015
Putin urges business leaders to return funds to Russia and hinted at further sanctions
Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged a gathering of billionaires and business leaders to bring money back to the country from offshore accounts, warning that funds kept abroad could be frozen.
03/19/2015
Billionaire NCAA brackets revealed
People follow the so-called smart money on investing, so how about March Madness?
03/18/2015
The Richest People in the Middle East
Since its Middle East’s city states modernised in the 1980s and 1990s, the region’s reputation as a business hub has gone stratospheric and the richest people in the Middle East are rapidly growing in financial clout.
03/17/2015
Irish property firm gets London city’s highest rent ever paid
The 65,000sq ft offices were completed in February, with each floor let individually
03/17/2015
Chinese Billionaire Said to Consider Cushman & Wakefield Bid
The Shanghai-based investment firm is among several companies that have expressed interest in Cushman
03/17/2015
Espírito Santo’s Miami Bank in Talks to Be Bought by Benacerraf Family
Arm of collapsed Espírito Santo empire in negotiations with Venezuelan banking family
03/16/2015
Millionaires in bizarre court battle over inches of property
Two warring Upper East Side millionaires are refusing to budge an inch — over a mere foot of real estate.
03/16/2015
Elizabeth Taylor’s trust sues Christie’s auction house in $7 million dispute over famous Taj Mahal diamond necklace
Diamonds are forever — and one is costing Elizabeth Taylor's family after her death.
03/16/2015
The huge controversy behind hedge funder’s $93.5M art sale
The indictment threatens to peel back the curtain on the extremely unregulated and secretive world of high-priced art.
03/16/2015
What it means to be India's wealthiest
This is the first-ever Rich List which combines Indians, non-resident Indians and persons of Indian origin.
03/16/2015
Robert Durst: Power, Hollywood and a violent life
The surname Durst is one synonymous with power and influence in New York City.
03/15/2015
5 Stats That Explain the Super Wealthy
From Nigerian billionaires to Russian oligarchs, numbers that explain how wealth works in politics
03/13/2015
Forbes Billionaire List Proves Wealth Comes From Satisfying Customers
It is fashionable in many circles these days to criticize the wealthy.
03/13/2015
One of China's wealthiest men takes home Tibetan tapestry to 'return art to China'
He was back in Hong Kong Thursday for the official "handover" of the artwork
03/13/2015
Billionaire Esteves’s BTG Punished by Bondholders in Rout
Bond investors are starting to lose confidence in billionaire Andre Esteves’s Grupo BTG Pactual
03/11/2015
Africa's Richest Man Loses Half His Fortune Due To Currency Depreciation In Nigeria
Aliko Dangote calls his homeland Nigeria as “one of the best-kept secrets.”
03/11/2015
Don’t buy this millionaire’s terrible Star Wars house
This $15 million mansion has a special Star Wars room, complete with a bed designed to look like one of The Empire Strikes Back's snowspeeders.
03/11/2015
Carlos Slim to Retire From Philip Morris Board
Billionaire has been a director at tobacco company since 2008 spinoff from Altria