The Philippines' 40 Richest

Rank	Name	Net Worth ($mil)	Age
1	Henry Sy	3,800	84
2	Lucio Tan	1,700	75
3	Jaime Zobel de Ayala	1,200	75
4	Andrew Tan	850	57
5	John Gokongwei	720	82
6	Tony Tan Caktiong	710	59
7	Eduardo Cojuangco Jr.	660	74
8	Enrique Razon Jr.	620	49
9	Manuel Villar	530	59
10	George Ty	515	76
11	Emilio Yap	510	83
12	Inigo & Mercedes Zobel	440	NA
13	Beatrice Campos	410	NA
14	Vivian Que Azcona	390	NA
15	Oscar Lopez	350	79
16	Andrew Gotianun	310	81
17	David Consunji	300	88
18	Robert Coyiuto Jr.	290	56
19	Alfonso Yuchengco	230	86
20	Mariano Tan	180	NA
21	Menardo Jimenez	160	77
22	Gilberto M. Duavit	159	74
23	Felipe Gozon	135	69
24	Jon Ramon Aboitiz	125	60
25	Betty Ang	120	NA
26	Alfredo Ramos	115	65
27	Manuel Zamora Jr.	110	69
28	Bienvenido R. Tantoco Sr.	90	88
29	Tomas Alcantara	75	63
30	Benjamin Romualdez	70	79
31	Wilfred Uytengsu Sr.	65	81
32	Lourdes Montinola	60	81
33	Luis Virata	56	55
34	Eugenio Lopez III	55	57
35	Enrique Aboitiz	53	87
36	Philip Ang	50	68
37	Jesus Tambunting	45	72
38	Frederick Dy	40	54
39	Rolando & Rosalinda Hortaleza	39	50/52
40	Marian Rosario Fong	38	NA

The World's Billionaires List -4

Rank	Name	Citizenship	Age	Net Worth ($bil)
74	Kushal Pal Singh	India	78	9.0
77	Nasser Al-Kharafi & family	Kuwait	66	8.7
77	Francois Pinault & family	France	73	8.7
79	Dmitry Rybolovlev	Russia	43	8.6
80	Iskander Makhmudov	Russia	46	8.5
80	James Simons	United States	71	8.5
82	Alberto Bailleres & family	Mexico	77	8.3
83	German Khan	Russia	48	8.2
84	Eliodoro, Bernardo & Patricia Matte	Chile	64	8.1
85	Edward Johnson III	United States	79	8.0
86	Kumar Birla	India	42	7.9
87	Sunil Mittal	India	52	7.8
88	John Fredriksen	Cyprus	65	7.7
89	Serge Dassault & family	France	84	7.6
89	Petr Kellner	Czech Republic	45	7.6
89	Ananda Krishnan	Malaysia	71	7.6
89	Tadashi Yanai & family	Japan	61	7.6
93	Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber	Saudi Arabia	51	7.5
93	Leonard Blavatnik	United States	52	7.5
93	David & Simon Reuben	United Kingdom	67	7.5
93	Nobutada Saji & family	Japan	64	7.5
93	Alain & Gerard Wertheimer	France	NA	7.5
93	Vladimir Yevtushenkov	Russia	61	7.5
99	August von Finck	Germany	80	7.3
100	Lee Kun-Hee	South Korea	68	7.2

The World's Billionaires List -3

Rank	Name	Citizenship	Age	NW ($bil)
51	Susanne Klatten	Germany	47	11.1
52	Iris Fontbona & family	Chile	NA	11.0
52	Forrest Mars Jr	United States	78	11.0
52	Jacqueline Mars	United States	70	11.0
52	John Mars	United States	73	11.0
52	Ronald Perelman	United States	67	11.0
57	Oleg Deripaska	Russia	42	10.7
58	Vagit Alekperov	Russia	59	10.6
59	Leonardo Del Vecchio	Italy	74	10.5
59	Carl Icahn	United States	74	10.5
61	Vladimir Potanin	Russia	49	10.3
62	Philip Knight	United States	72	10.2
63	Ricardo Salinas Pliego & family	Mexico	54	10.1
64	Mohammed Al Amoudi	Saudi Arabia	65	10.0
64	Ernesto Bertarelli & family	Switzerland	44	10.0
64	Anne Cox Chambers	United States	90	10.0
64	George Kaiser	United States	67	10.0
64	Hans Rausing	Sweden	84	10.0
64	Joseph Safra	Brazil	71	10.0
70	Alexei Mordashov	Russia	44	9.9
71	Viktor Rashnikov	Russia	61	9.8
72	German Larrea Mota Velasco & family	Mexico	56	9.7
73	Sheldon Adelson	United States	76	9.3
74	Silvio Berlusconi & family	Italy	73	9.0
74	Dan Duncan	United States	77	9.0

The World's Billionaires List -2

Rank	Name	Citizenship	Age	Net Worth ($bil)
24	David Koch	United States	69	17.5
24	Larry Page	United States	37	17.5
28	Michele Ferrero & family	Italy	83	17.0
28	Kwok family	Hong Kong	NA	17.0
28	Azim Premji	India	64	17.0
31	Theo Albrecht	Germany	88	16.7
32	Vladimir Lisin	Russia	53	15.8
33	Steven Ballmer	United States	54	14.5
33	Robert Kuok	Malaysia	86	14.5
35	George Soros	United States	79	14.0
36	Anil Ambani	India	50	13.7
37	Paul Allen	United States	57	13.5
37	Michael Dell	United States	45	13.5
39	Mikhail Prokhorov	Russia	44	13.4
40	Birgit Rausing & family	Sweden	86	13.0
40	Shashi & Ravi Ruia	India	66	13.0
42	Mikhail Fridman	Russia	45	12.7
43	Jeffrey Bezos	United States	46	12.3
44	Savitri Jindal	India	60	12.2
45	Donald Bren	United States	77	12.0
45	Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family	United Kingdom	58	12.0
45	John Paulson	United States	54	12.0
48	Abigail Johnson	United States	48	11.5
48	Jorge Paulo Lemann	Brazil	70	11.5
50	Roman Abramovich	Russia	43	11.2

The World's Billionaires List -1

Rank	Name	Citizenship	Age	Net Worth ($bil)
1	Carlos Slim Helu & family	Mexico	70	53.5
2	William Gates III	United States	54	53.0
3	Warren Buffett	United States	79	47.0
4	Mukesh Ambani	India	52	29.0
5	Lakshmi Mittal	India	59	28.7
6	Lawrence Ellison	United States	65	28.0
7	Bernard Arnault	France	61	27.5
8	Eike Batista	Brazil	53	27.0
9	Amancio Ortega	Spain	74	25.0
10	Karl Albrecht	Germany	90	23.5
11	Ingvar Kamprad & family	Sweden	83	23.0
12	Christy Walton & family	United States	55	22.5
13	Stefan Persson	Sweden	62	22.4
14	Li Ka-shing	Hong Kong	81	21.0
15	Jim Walton	United States	62	20.7
16	Alice Walton	United States	60	20.6
17	Liliane Bettencourt	France	87	20.0
18	S. Robson Walton	United States	66	19.8
19	Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud	Saudi Arabia	55	19.4
20	David Thomson & family	Canada	52	19.0
21	Michael Otto & family	Germany	66	18.7
22	Lee Shau Kee	Hong Kong	82	18.5
23	Michael Bloomberg	United States	68	18.0
24	Sergey Brin	United States	36	17.5
24	Charles Koch	United States	74	17.5

World's Billionaires 2010

Wednesday, March 10, 2010provided by

 

Introduction by Matthew Miller and Luisa Kroll
Carlos Slim Helu takes No. 1 spot on Forbes World's Billionaires list as a record 164 10-figure titans return to the ranking amid the global economic recovery.

For the third time in three years, the world has a new richest man.
Riding surging prices of his various telecom holdings, including giant mobile outfit America Movil (AMX), Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu has beaten out Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the wealthiest person on earth and nab the top spot on the 2010 Forbes list of the World's Billionaires.

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Slim's fortune has swelled to an estimated $53.5 billion, up $18.5 billion in 12 months. Shares of America Movil, of which Slim owns a $23 billion stake, were up 35% in a year.

That massive hoard of scratch puts him ahead of Microsoft (MSFT) cofounder Bill Gates, who had held the title of world's richest 14 of the past 15 years.

Gates, now worth $53 billion, is ranked second in the world. He is up $13 billion from a year ago as shares of Microsoft rose 50% in 12 months. Gates' holdings in his personal investment vehicle Cascade (CAE) also soared with the rest of the markets.

Buffett's fortune jumped $10 billion to $47 billion on rising shares of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK). He ranks third.

The Oracle of Omaha shrewdly invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs (GS) and $3 billion in General Electric (GE) amid the 2008 market collapse. He also recently acquired railroad giant Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNI) for $26 billion.

In his annual shareholder letter Buffett wrote, "We've put a lot of money to work during the chaos of the last two years. When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble."

Many plutocrats did just that. Indeed, last year's wealth wasteland has become a billionaire bonanza. Most of the richest people on the planet have seen their fortunes soar in the past year.

This year the World's Billionaires have an average net worth of $3.5 billion, up $500 million in 12 months. The world has 1,011 10-figure titans, up from 793 a year ago but still shy of the record 1,125 in 2008. Of those billionaires on last year's list, only 12% saw their fortunes decline.

U.S. billionaires still dominate the ranks — but their grip is slipping. Americans account for 40% of the world's billionaires, down from 45% a year ago.

The U.S. commands 38% of the collective $3.6 trillion net worth of the world's richest, down from 44% a year ago.

Of the 97 new members of the list, only 16% are from the U.S. By contrast, Asia made big gains. The region added 104 moguls and now has just 14 fewer than Europe, thanks to several large public offerings and swelling stock markets.

The new billionaires include American Isaac Perlmutter, who flipped Marvel Entertainment (MVL) to Disney (DIS) for $4 billion last December. The Spider-Man mogul netted nearly $900 million in cash and 20 million shares of Disney in the transaction.

Also new to the ranking: 27 billionaires from China, including Li Shufu, whose automaker, Geely, announced plans to buy Swedish brand Volvo from Ford in December. The deal is expected to close in March 2010.
Finland and Pakistan both welcomed their first billionaires.

For the first time China (including Hong Kong) has the most billionaires outside the U.S. with 89.
Russia has 62 billionaires, 28 of them returnees who had fallen off last year's list amid a meltdown in commodities. Total returnees to the list this year: 164.

Eleven countries have at least double the number of billionaires they had a year ago, including China, India, Turkey and South Korea.

Thirty members of last year's list fell out of the billionaire's club. Moguls who couldn't make the cut: Iceland's Thor Bjorgolfsson, Russia's Boris Berezovsky and Saudi Arabia's Maan Al-Sanea.
Another 13 members of last year's list died. Among the deceased: real estate developer Melvin Simon and glass tycoon William Davidson.