Monday, June 16, 2008

Fortune-500: Rich List... (When is my turn??)

After 13 years on top, Bill Gates is no longer the richest man in the world. That honor now belongs to his friend and sometimes bridge partner Warren Buffett.

Riding the surging price of Berkshire Hathaway stock, Buffett has seen his fortune swell to an estimated $62 billion, up $10 billion from a year ago.

Gates is now worth $58 billion and is ranked third richest in the world. He is up $2 billion from a year ago, but would have been as rich--or richer--than Buffett, had Microsoft not made an unsolicited bid for Yahoo! at the beginning of February. Mexican telecom mogul Carlos Slim HelĂș now ranks as the world's second richest person with a net worth of $60 billion.

  1. Warren Buffett
  2. Carlos Slim Helu
  3. William Gates III
  4. Lakshmi Mittal
  5. Mukesh Ambani
  6. Anil Ambani
  7. Ingvar Kamprad
  8. KP Singh
  9. Oleg Deripaska
  10. Karl Albrecht
  11. Li Ka-shing
  12. Sheldon Adelson
  13. Bernard Arnault
  14. Lawrence Ellison
  15. Roman Abramovich
  16. Theo Albrecht
  17. Liliane Bettencourt
  18. Alexei Mordashov
  19. Prince Alwaleed
  20. Mikhail Fridman
  • For SouthEast Asia...
    1. Robert Kuok
    2. Ananda Krishnan
    3. Kwek Leng Beng
    4. Rachman Halim
    5. Ng Teng Fong
    6. Quek Leng Chan
    7. Wee Cho Yaw
    8. R. Budi Hartono
    9. Lee Seng Wee
    10. Lim Goh Tong

    2 comments:

    Anonymous said...

    where is my name?

    Anonymous said...

    Hehehe... Yours is in the 5 millionth list .. and mine 6 millionth . haahaha