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Robert Olsen, Forbes Staff

Desperately faking riches: Inside a businessman’s outlandish efforts to get on the Forbes billionaire list

For years, Calvin Lo has pitched himself as a globetrotting billionaire-financier-cum-philanthropist with a world class collection of champagne, homes on three continents, a fleet of exotic supercars and investments in a five-star hotel and an F1 team. Great story—too bad it’s (mostly) fiction.

  • By Robert Olsen
  • Forbes Staff

Can China’s billionaires breathe a sigh of relief in 2023?

For China’s richest billionaires, last year was the worst in decades.

  • By Robert Olsen
  • Forbes Staff
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