The Financial Review Rich List 2017 is the 34th annual survey of the wealthiest people resident in Australia, published by The Australian Financial Review on 25 May 2017. [1] From its establishment in 1984 and up until the publication of the 2016 list, the survey had been published in either hardcopy and/or online format in the BRW , or formerly, the Business Review Weekly. On 4 March 2016, Fairfax Media announced the closure of the BRW website, and redirected the site to a new section of The Australian Financial Review . Rich lists are now published in The Australian Financial Review Magazine and in 2017 were rebranded as the Financial Review Rich List. [2]
In the 2017 list, the net worth of the wealthiest individual, Anthony Pratt, was A$12.60 billion. [3] The combined wealth of the 200 individuals was calculated as A$230 billion; [4] compared with a combined wealth of A$6.4 billion in 1984 when the BRW Rich 200 commenced. [5] Fifteen women and 185 men made the 2014 list.
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2017 [1] [6] | Name | Citizenship | Source of wealth | 2016 [7] [8] | ||
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Rank | Net worth A$ bn | Rank | Net worth A$ bn | |||
1 | 12.60 | Anthony Pratt | Australia | Visy Industries; Pratt Industries | 2 | 10.35 |
2 | 11.45 | Harry Triguboff | Australia | Meriton Apartments | 1 | 10.62 |
3 | 10.41 | Gina Rinehart | Australia | Hancock Prospecting; investment | 4 | 6.06 |
4 | 8.26 | Frank Lowy | Australia | ex-Westfield; property (shopping centres) | 3 | 8.26 |
5 | 6.85 | Ivan Glasenberg | Australia [9] South Africa Switzerland [10] | Glencore commodities trading | 9 | 3.33 |
6 | 6.84 | Andrew Forrest | Australia | Fortescue Metals Group | 8 | 3.33 |
7 | 6.05 | John Gandel | Australia | Property (shopping centres) | 5 | 5.45 |
8 | 5.96 | Hui Wing Mau | China Australia [11] | Shimao Property | 6 | 5.39 |
9 | 4.79 | James Packer | Australia | Crown Resorts; Consolidated Media Holdings | 7 | 5.00 |
10 | 3.90 | Stan Perron | Australia | Property | 11 | 2.88 |
11 | 3.07 | Len Ainsworth | Australia | Gaming; manufacturing | ||
12 | 3.00 | Lang Walker | Australia | Walker Corporation (property) | ||
13 | 2.91 | Lindsay Fox AC | Australia | Linfox; property | 13 | 2.49 |
14 | 2.90 | Kerry Stokes AC | Australia | Property; Seven West Media; resources | ||
15 | 2.74 | Bianca Rinehart | Australia | Hancock Prospecting; investment | ||
16 | 2.55 | David Hains and family | Australia | Investment | 14 | 2.48 |
17 | 2.51 | Mike Cannon-Brookes | Australia | Atlassian | 18 | 2.00 |
18 | 2.51 | Scott Farquhar | Australia | 18 | 2.00 | |
19 | 2.38 | Solomon Lew | Australia | Premier Investments; retail | ||
20 | 2.38 | Jack Cowin | Australia | Competitive Foods Australia; investment | ||
21 | 2.34 | Gerry Harvey | Australia | Harvey Norman Holdings | ||
22 | 2.24 | Marc Besen | Australia | Retail | ||
23 | 2.09 | Alan Rydge | Australia | Rydges Hotels & Resorts; Event Cinemas | ||
24 | 1.98 | Sir Michael Hintze | Australia United Kingdom | Retail; investment | 37 | 1.32 |
25 | 1.93 | Huang Bingwen and family | Australia | Manufacturing |
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