TOP 10 RICHEST MEN IN THE WORLD
#1.Luis Carlos Sarmiento
Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo took a fortune amassed in the construction industry and invested it in banks.
Grupo Aval now controls one-third of all banks in Colombia. The octogenarian still chairs the company.
After graduating with a degree in engineering, he briefly worked at a construction company, but took a 10,000 pesos payout and started his own firm.
He bought Colombia's largest newspaper El Tiempo in 2012 for an estimated $250 million.
His construction firm is building a Grand Hyatt in Bogota, set to open in August 2018.
REAL-TIME NET WORTH
$10.4B
as of 10/18/21
2021 BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH
$11B
as of 4/6/21
STATS
AGE88
SOURCE OF WEALTH banking, Self Made
RESIDENCIA Bogota, Colombia
CITIZENSHIP Colombia
MARITAL STATUS Married CHILDREN5
EDUCATION Bachelor of Arts/Science, National University of Colombia
#2.Harry Triguboff
Triguboff is one of Australia's richest people. Born in China to Russian parents, he came to Australia as a teenager.
Triguboff found success in business by providing higher-density living options in Sydney, Australia's largest city, which has traditionally been dominated by free-standing homes.
His apartment-tower development company, Meriton, sees strong demand in Sydney, while it also has a presence in southeast Queensland.
He was one of Australia's first developers to see the potential of apartment living when most of his countrymen aspired to single-family homes.
Nicknamed "High Rise Harry", he has put up more than 75,000 apartments. The buoyant Sydney market continues to drive up his fortune.
REAL-TIME NET WORTH
$11.2B
as of 10/18/21
2021 BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH
$11.2B
as of 4/6/21
STATS
AGE88
SOURCE OF WEALTH real estate, Self Made
RESIDENCESydney, Australia
CITIZENSHIP Australia
MARITAL STATUS Married
CHILDREN 2
EDUCATION Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Leeds
#3.Eyal Ofer
Eyal Ofer is chairman of the Monaco-based Ofer Global, active in shipping, real estate, technology, banking, and investments.
He inherited part of his late father's shipping empire in 2011 and has expanded the holdings significantly.
Through Global Holdings, his real estate firm, he owns the Manhattan properties 15 Central Park West, 1250 Broadway, and 50 United Nations Plaza.
Through Zodiac Group, his shipping company, he owns and operates over 160 ships.
Eyal and his brother Idan, also a billionaire, are sons of Sammy Ofer (d. 2011), who was once Israel's richest man.
REAL TIME NET WORTH
$11.8B
as of 10/18/21
$3 M | 0.03%
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2021 BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH
$11.1B
as of 4/6/21
STATS
AGE71
SOURCE OF WEALTH real estate, shipping
RESIDENCE Monte Carlo, Monaco
CITIZENSHIP Israel
MARITAL STATUS Married
CHILDREN 4
#4.Jorge Moll Filho & family
Jorge Navel Moll Filho is a cardiologist and entrepreneur who founded Rede D'Or, one of Brazil's largest hospitals and lab operators.
Moll started with a health diagnostics imaging laboratory in 1977.
Rede D'Or owns more than 30 hospitals. In 2010 Moll sold subsidiary Labs D'Or to publicly traded Fleury SA for over $750 million.
In 2015, private equity firm Carlyle Group and Singapore's sovereign-wealth fund GIC bought stakes in Rede D'Or, spending over $500 million.
Moll lives in Rio de Janeiro and is the president of the board of directors of Rede d'Or.
REAL-TIME NET WORTH
$11.7B
as of 10/18/21
2021 BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH
$11.3B
as of 4/6/21
STATS
AGE76
SOURCE OF WEALTH hospitals, Self Made
RESIDENCE Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
CITIZENSHIP Brazil
MARITAL STATUS Married
CHILDREN 5
EDUCATION Masters of Public Health, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
#5.Marcel Herrmann Telles
Marcel Hermann Telles is one of the controlling shareholders of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer, of which he owns a minority stake.
His fellow controlling shareholders at AB Inbev include longtime Brazilian business partners Beto Sicupira and Jorge Paulo Lemann, both billionaires.
Telles and his partners also have shares of listed Restaurant Brands International, parent of Burger King and Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons.
In 2013, the trio's private equity firm 3G Capital and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway bought H.J. Heinz & Company. Then Heinz merged with Kraft.
REAL-TIME NET WORTH
$10.5B
as of 10/18/21
$35 M | 0.33%
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2021 BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH
$11.5B
as of 4/6/21
STATS
AGE71
SOURCE OF WEALTH beer, Self Made
RESIDENCE São Paulo, Brazil
CITIZENSHIP Brazil
MARITAL STATUS Married
CHILDREN 2
EDUCATION Bachelor of Arts/Science, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
#6.Mikhail Prokhorov
Mikhail Prokhorov sold a 49% stake in the Brooklyn Nets to Alibaba executive Joseph Tsai in a $2.3 billion deal in 2018.
Much of Prokhorov's fortune stems from the 2008 sale of his stake in metals giant Norilsk Nickel.
He has stakes in Russian power, insurance and banking sectors.
He ran against Vladimir Putin in Russia's 2012 presidential race, gaining 8% of the vote.
He sold his last block of shares in UC Rusal one month before sanctions were imposed against the company by the US Treasury.
REAL-TIME NET WORTH
$11.5B
as of 10/18/21
$2 M | 0.02%
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2021 BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH
$11.4B
as of 4/6/21
STATS
AGE56
SOURCE OF WEALTH investments, Self Made
RESIDENCE Moscow, Russia
CITIZENSHIP Russia
MARITAL STATUS Single
EDUCATION Bachelor of Arts/Science, Moscow Institute of Finance
#7.Patrick Drahi
Telecoms magnate Patrick Drahi is the founder and owner of multinational Altice NV, which he took private in January 2021 at a $7.3 billion valuation.
Drahi built Altice with more than 20 acquisitions of lagging cable and mobile operators and has expanded further with highly leveraged deals.
He stormed the U.S. in 2015 by buying a 70% stake in cable operator Suddenlink for $9 billion and snapping up Cablevision for $17.7 billion.
Those U.S. entities were spun off into Altice USA, which went public in June 2017.
In October 2019, Drahi acquired auction house Sotheby's for about $2.6 billion, taking the 275-year-old firm privately.
REAL-TIME NET WORTH
$8.2B
as of 10/18/21
2021 BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH
$11.8B
as of 4/6/21
STATS
AGE58
SOURCE OF WEALTH telecom, Self Made
RESIDENCE Zermatt, Switzerland
CITIZENSHIP France
MARITAL STATUS Married
CHILDREN 4
#8.Jeff Yass
Yass is a cofounder of Susquehanna International Group, one of Wall Street's largest and most successful trading firms.
He went to SUNY Binghamton, became a pro gambler, then began trading on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange in 1981 backed by billionaire Israel Englander.
In 1987, he co-founded Susquehanna with a handful of partners; it's now a giant in options trading and making markets, with 2,000 employees worldwide.
It recruits and trains traders using poker tournaments to sharpen decision-making skills; its traders have won 3 World Series of Poker bracelets.
Susquehanna has invested in hundreds of private companies globally, including TikTok parent ByteDance and payments firm Payoneer.
REAL-TIME NET WORTH
$12B
as of 10/18/21
2021 BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH
$12B
as of 4/5/21
STATS
AGE63
SOURCE OF WEALTH trading, investments, Self Made
SELF-MADE SCORE 8
RESIDENCE Haverford, Pennsylvania
CITIZENSHIP United States
MARITAL STATUS Married
CHILDREN 4
EDUCATION Bachelor of Science, SUNY Binghamton
#9Liu Yonghao & family
Liu Yonghao is the longtime chairman of New Hope Group, which has nearly 70,000 employees and more than 600 subsidiaries in 30 countries.
His daughter Liu Chang replaced him as chairman of the group's animal feed arm New Hope Liuhe, one of China's largest agribusiness firms, in 2013.
In the U.S New Hope owns stakes in Lansing Trade Group, a feed and raw materials trading company, and food processing outfit Ruprecht.
New Hope Group also has interests in real estate and chemicals.
REAL-TIME NET WORTH
$8.4B
as of 10/18/21
$64 M | 0.77%
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2021 BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH
$12.1B
as of 4/6/21
STATS
AGE70
SOURCE OF WEALTH agribusiness, Self Made
RESIDENCE Chengdu, China
CITIZENSHIP China
MARITAL STATUSMarried
CHILDREN 2
#10.Forrest Li
Stanford grad Forrest Li founded and runs an online gaming firm and e-commerce firm Sea, which also has interests in e-payments and financial services.
Li entered the ranks of Singapore's richest, after listing Sea on the New York Stock Exchange in October 2017.
Backed by Tencent, which now has a 20% stake, Sea's other investors include private equity firm General Atlantic and Robert Kuok's son Kuok Khoon Hua.
REAL-TIME NET WORTH
$19.5B
as of 10/18/21
2021 BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH
$12.4B
as of 4/5/21
STATS
AGE43
SOURCE OF WEALTH gaming, Self Made
RESIDENCE Singapore, Singapore
CITIZENSHIP Singapore
MARITAL STATUS Married
EDUCATION Bachelor of Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University; Master of Business Administration, Stanford Graduate School of Business.