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Billionaires of the 2010s: From Facebook execs to heiresses, here's a look at...
The world's billionaire population has more than doubled over the past decade, Forbes' 2010 and 2019 Billionaires lists show.The wealthiest woman in the world, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, only joined...
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Bye bye, billionaires: 15 people who lost their billionaire status in 2019
IPOs and stock market gains made several entrepreneurs billionaires in 2019, but they cost other business people their spots in the three-comma club. Several people, including the founders of WeWork...
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Meet Tadashi Yanai, the richest person in Japan and the founder of Uniqlo,...
Tadashi Yanai is the richest person in Japan, worth an estimated $31.3 billion.He's the chairman and biggest shareholder of Fast Retailing, the largest clothing retailer in Asia and parent company of...
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How composer Andrew Lloyd Webber built a billion dollar fortune off 'Cats'...
British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has built an £820 million ($1.074 billion) fortune off blockbuster musicals including "School of Rock" and "Cats."Lloyd Webber's biggest hit, "The Phantom of the...
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Outrageous photos show what flying on private jets is really like, from...
Private jets are the choice mode of travel for billionaires, CEOs, celebrities, and world leaders.Flying on a private jet is a very different world from flying commercial, Eric Roth, president of...
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11 ultra-wealthy people who aren't leaving their fortunes to their children
Several high-profile millionaires and billionaires have declared they won't be leaving the entirety of their massive fortunes to their children.Many of these wealthy parents have pledged to give the...
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This is how the world's 5 youngest billionaires spend their time and money
One of the world's youngest billionaires, Kylie Jenner, just agreed to sell a majority stake in her makeup company for $600 million, The Wall Street Journal reported.The world's youngest billionaires...
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15 ways things have changed for billionaires in the past year
2019 was a good year to be a billionaire — sort of. Billionaires in France, for example, saw their collective net worths soar, while the opposite happened in China.But billionaires in the US have been...
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These were the 15 hottest destinations billionaires couldn't get enough of in...
The ultrarich are investing more in travel as a way to show off their wealth, and that includes everything from sabbaticals to brief vacations.We teamed up with the luxury travel agency Original Travel...
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Jeff Bezos lost more than almost any other billionaire in 2019 because of his...
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos suffered a decline of more than $10 billion in his net worth over 2019, according to Bloomberg.The loss is mainly down to his divorce from MacKenzie Bezos, which led...
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Ingvar Kamprad, the reclusive billionaire who founded Ikea, grew up selling...
Ikea is the world's largest furniture retailer, according to Forbes.The Swedish company was founded in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad, who died in 2018 as the eighth-richest person in the world with control of...
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The 15 richest people in India, ranked
Most of India's richest billionaires lost money in 2019, according to Forbes.But Mumbai-based businessman Mukesh Ambani remained the richest person in India in 2019 for the 12th year in a row, with a...
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Bloomberg says he'll trade the Oval Office for an 'open office plan' in the...
Billionaire presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg is being mocked on Twitter for his plan to rearrange the White House if elected.Bloomberg's "open office plan" includes turning the White House's...
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The wealth of the 500 richest people in the world grew by an astronomic 25%...
The world's 500 richest people added $1.2 trillion to their collective net worths in 2019, according to Bloomberg.Increased demand for luxury goods in China grew the fortunes of Francois Pinault,...
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'The rich should pay more' — Bill Gates calls for higher taxes on the wealthy...
Bill Gates, the world's second-richest person behind Amazon's Jeff Bezos, wants rich people to pay higher taxes."We've updated our tax system before to keep up with changing times, and we need to do it...
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Bill Gates called for higher taxes on the wealthy in a New Year's Eve blog...
On Monday Bill Gates wrote that "the rich should pay more than they currently do" on his blog, Gates Notes.Billionaires including Mark Cuban, Marc Benioff, Ray Dalio, and George Soros have publicly...
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The life of Michael Bloomberg: How an unemployed 39-year-old banker became a...
Michael Bloomberg, a 77-year-old billionaire philanthropist, is running to be the next Democratic presidential candidate.He spent 15 years working in finance, before getting fired when he was 39. With...
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Mark Zuckerberg was just spotted shopping at Costco. Look inside the lives of...
Billionaire Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was spotted on a shopping trip to Costco with wife Priscilla Chan on December 13, according to TMZ. Frugality is one of the key characteristics of wealth,...
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is just like us: He shops for bargain deals at...
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, was recently spotted shopping at warehouse chain store Costco with wife Priscilla Chan.TMZ recently published the photo, which appears to show the married couple...
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Lots of hard work and no special treatment: Here's how Elon Musk's mom says...
The best way to raise successful children is to expose them to hard work and encourage their interests, Elon Musk's mom, Maye, wrote in an essay for CNBC Make It. Much of Maye's parenting style — from...
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