The Fullerton Hotel in Singapore, one of the properties owned by Hong Kong-based Sino Group. Courtesy of Sino Group Daryl Ng, the eldest son of billionaire Robert Ng, is taking the helm at Sino Group, whose Hong Kong-listed real estate companies are valued at HK$127.7 billion ($16 billion), after his father steps down at the…
Bill Hoogterp has spent decades advising celebrities, CEOs, and rising stars inside some of America’s most powerful boardrooms. Through his coaching firm, LifeHikes, he’s helped more than 700,000 professionals level up their communication and leadership skills—and personally worked one-on-one with “thousands” of executives, many of whom appear on Fortune’s most powerful lists. And there’s one…
Job seekers are scrambling to figure out when AI will come for their jobs—but even the experts can’t agree on a timeline. Now, Bill Gates is sounding the alarm: It could all happen so fast, workers won’t even have time to catch up. “The question is, has it come so fast that you don’t have…
Published on August 1, 2025 Booming tech stocks lifted the fortunes of eight of the world’s top 10 wealthiest. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang hit a high mark. Here are the richest people in the world, right now. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is now the xxxx Key Takeaways Elon Musk is the richest person in the world,…
The wealth gap in America is staggering, but the tax gap might be even more shocking. When I asked ChatGPT to calculate what would happen if Elon Musk paid taxes at the same effective rate as middle-class Americans, the AI’s response revealed numbers that will make you question everything you thought you knew about tax…
A British court has rejected Russian billionaire Evgeny Shvidler’s latest attempt to overturn U.K. sanctions, dealing a blow to legal challenges against London’s post-invasion Russia sanctions regime. In a 4-1 decision announced Tuesday, the U.K. Supreme Court dismissed Shvidler’s appeal, upholding the government’s 2022 decision to place the oil magnate on its sanctions list, Reuters…
Growing up, many little girls were told they should be seen and not heard. The billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates, however, was told something entirely different: that she could do anything—and it shaped who she is today. “My father, who worked on the Apollo missions, believed that women could do anything,” French Gates recently said…
Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King and Kris Jenner took a girls’ trip to Spain after attending Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s $50 million wedding. The TV personalities were photographed lounging on a yacht off the coast of Mallorca in several snaps shared via King’s Instagram on Saturday. One photo showed the trio donning dresses and lying…
Bill Gates is giving it all away. The megabucks Microsoft founder’s fortune has plunged a staggering $51 billion in a few days because he’s ramped-up his charitable donations, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire index. Once the richest man on earth, Gates’ net worth fell to a measly $124 billion on Thursday – a steep drop…
Melinda French Gates doesn’t want to raise a nepo baby. The ex-wife of Bill Gates and longtime philanthropist, with a net worth of $31 billion, said she refused to fund her daughter’s startup. “I have a daughter who just started a business this year,” said French Gates, 60, during a recent talk with tennis legend…