Rich List
World’s 500 richest people surpassed $15 trillion in wealth in 2024
The world’s 500 richest people got vastly richer in 2024, with Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg leading the group to a new milestone. Their wealth is now similar in size to the combined GDPs of Germany, Japan and Australia.
- Dylan Sloan and Jack Witzig
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David Beckham lands $57m payday after Netflix documentary
Profits at the football legend’s business empire more than tripled after the lucrative documentary deal.
- Hannah Boland
WiseTech co-founder in big payday, selling stake to Richard White
The 10.2 million shares are worth more than $1 billion based on Friday’s share price.
- Colin Kruger
You can’t have too much money, happiness researcher finds
When it comes to money buying happiness, more is better, says a study that has found the correlation between wealth and well-being does not plateau once incomes reach a certain point.
- Conrad Quilty-Harper
The uni rich list: Vice chancellors on $1 million salaries revealed
Australia’s highest-paid vice chancellors are now earning six times their university’s senior professors as the union calls for an inquiry into wage theft.
- Daniella White and Sherryn Groch
- Opinion
- Billionaires
Read it and weep: The Forbes billionaires just got a lot richer
Billionaires now account for $US14.2 trillion of the world’s wealth. To put this into perspective, this is larger than the gross domestic product of any country other than the US and China.
- Elizabeth Knight
- Opinion
- Billionaires
Australia has more billionaires than ever. That’s nothing to celebrate
Marking a new high of ultra-wealthy individuals is one record we shouldn’t be cheering about.
- Victoria Devine
The world’s first trillionaire could rise within 10 years: Oxfam
Oxfam has for years been trying to highlight the growing disparities between the super-rich and the bulk of the global population. That gap has been “supercharged”.
- Pan Pylas and Masha Macpherson
L’Oreal heiress Francoise Bettencourt Meyers becomes first woman with $US100 billion fortune
The milestone comes as shares of L’Oreal, the beauty empire founded by Bettencourt Meyers’ grandfather, rose to a record high.
- Tara Patel
Billions wiped from Atlassian duo’s fortunes
Australian tech billionaires Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar have taken a financial hit as their software company posts widening losses.
- David Swan
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