02/19/2014
Hedge Fund Manager Griffin to Donate $150 Million to Harvard
The money will largely go to the college’s financial aid program as Harvard seeks to blunt criticism that higher education has become the province of the 1 percent.
02/19/2014
The money will largely go to the college’s financial aid program as Harvard seeks to blunt criticism that higher education has become the province of the 1 percent.
02/18/2014
As Billionaire Wealth Skyrockets, Here's What Happens to Their Philanthropy
As Businessweek Bloomberg writes, "Giving is up since the financial crisis. But while the stock market has made a complete recovery, top-50 philanthropy has clearly not."
02/18/2014
6 Supermodels Who Challenged Stereotypes and Became Wildly Successful Entrepreneurs
The Brazilian beauty is the highest-paid model in living history as her wealth is more than $250 million.
02/17/2014
I want to be rich. So do you.
02/17/2014
Ben Goldsmith, son of the late billionaire financier Sir James, has lured a cast of blue-chip investors and prominent business families into a €250m green fund to back technology companies.
02/17/2014
Prince William has vowed to destroy all 1,200 ivory artefacts in Buckingham Palace to 'send a message' to illegal elephant poachers.
02/17/2014
Frenchman Sidney Gavignet and team on EFG Bank sailed an impressive, tactical 60-nautical mile sprint from Abu Dhabi to Dubai, to win leg three.
02/14/2014
Negotiating a stock swap, according to documents submitted late on Wednesday to the US markets regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission.
02/13/2014
Rising income at Manchester United will be spent on new players to boost their lacklustre performance.
02/13/2014
US billionaire buys Irish golf resort
American billionaire has bought a golf resort in County Clare in the Republic of Ireland.
02/12/2014
You may have seen Mark Axelowitz—a managing director at UBS Private Wealth Management—on television before.
02/12/2014
U.S. millionaires view real estate as the top alternative-asset class to own this year
02/12/2014
Hogan Lovells has picked up the mandate to represent Ukranian industrialist Victor Pinchuk in his $2bn High Court battle after White & Case was debarred from the case.
02/12/2014
It might be just a fancy amber and gold light shade, but the newest designer installation at Harrods is the symbol of so much more.
02/12/2014
John Jahr slowly hitches up his pants, runs his fingers through his swept-back graying hair and gently crouches down, beckoning a curling stone toward him.
02/11/2014
HSBC Holdings Plc was sued by Singaporean billionaire Peter Lim’s ex-wife, who claimed she suffered losses because of the bank’s negligence.
02/11/2014
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were the most generous American philanthropists in 2013, with a donation of 18 million shares of Facebook stock, valued at more than $970 million, to a Silicon Valley nonprofit in December.
02/11/2014
A five-month rally by Kingdom Holding Co. is giving lift to the investment record of Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud, the world’s 18th-richest person and self-proclaimed “Warren Buffett of Saudi Arabia.”
02/10/2014
Billionaire activist investor planning assault on UK
They have only declined twice, falling 7pc in value in 1998, and 3pc in the annus horribilis that was 2008.
02/10/2014
Royal couple accused of diverting money to pay for lavish lifestyle
_rincess faces a grilling at husband’s trial over ‘£5m fraud'