Billionaires

With the largest voluntary transfer of private capital in modern history underway, here are the countries winning and losing the wealth migration game.

The Forbes 2025 ranking of the richest self-made women billionaires on the planet — China and U.S. dominate, as tech fuels fortunes.

A Forbes survey reveals the number one must-have item of the super-rich. For some it was their prestige car. For others, their wife. But this was the favorite.

At age 33, Liu Jingkang has earned a fortune of $2.7 billion by selling 360-degree action cameras.

Would Ven Parish really be the richest person in the world? Here’s how the characters stack up to their real-life counterparts.

As a stronger yen propels collective wealth by 14% to $228 billion, Tadashi Yanai’s fortune hits a record high.

Forbes counts fewer than 30 billionaires and centimillionaires in the U.S and Europe who have made a large chunk of their fortune in the super competitive world of beauty products.

The Harry Potter books transformed her from a single mother on welfare to an author with a ten-figure fortune—but her massive charity initiatives dropped her from the ranks of billionaires. Now, thanks to new Potterverse books, movies, a play, and several theme parks—and despite a divisive social-media presence—she is magically back in the three-comma club.

The world’s eighth-richest person and the biggest individual donor to research on Parkinson’s disease just gave a valuable sliver of his Alphabet shares to charitable entities that fund healthcare research and treatments.

Polytron, which has been selling electric motor bikes since 2022, hopes to hold its own against foreign car manufacturers. Its SUVs can travel across a distance of 402 kilometers on a fully-charged battery.