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A pandemic hasn’t stopped many of America’s richest families from adding to their fortunes. It comes as no surprise that the wealthiest family in the United States is the Waltons - with a net worth of $247 billion. That’s $147 billion more than the second wealthiest family - Koch Family....

it’s no surprise that Jennifer Aniston is the richest cast member of the American sitcom Friends, but what about Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, and the others? Notorious for negotiating: In season one each cast member earned a cool US$22,500 per episode. That worked out to $540,000 for the entire first...

Thanks to soaring commodity prices, Gina Rinehart is once again the richest person in Australia, boasting a personal net worth of more than US$23.8 billion. She was followed by fellow miner Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest (US$20.9 billion), Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes (US$14.5 billion), and the other Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar, who...

With a net worth of roughly US$340 million, James Alan Hetfield (Metallica) is the wealthiest heavy metal singer in the world, followed by Ozzy Osbourne (No. 2, US$225 million), Bruce Dickinson (No. 3, US$100 million); and Rob Halford (No. 4, US$80 million). Like most incredibly successful rock and metal groups,...

With a net worth of roughly US$1.3 Billion, Élisabeth Badinter is the richest author in the world, followed by J.K. Rowling (No. 2, US$1 billion), James Patterson (No. 3, US$560 million); and Stephen King (No. 4, US$400 million). Élisabeth Badinter, a well-known philosopher and writer, is known for her books...

The battle of the billionaires: Bezos, Musk, Gates, and Zuckerberg — 4 of the 5 richest billionaires in the world, by Forbes’s Global Wealth League Table — all made their money in technology. Bernard Arnault seems to have become the odd man out among the techie multibillionaires. Judging by their...

The Covid-19 pandemic caused great losses to many firms. At the same time, many employees lost their jobs while others had salary cuts. During all this suffering period a new study conducted by the Institute for Policy Studies showed that CEO salaries increased even in firms that had huge profit...

Greek family businesses try to get over the difficulties that the Covid-19 pandemic has created by setting priorities similar to their global peers. Such priorities are the diversification and expansion of their activities, the digitalization and introduction of new technologies, the evolving and new business thinking, sustainability and focus on...

With an incredible US$192.2 billion fortune, Bernard Arnault, the boss of Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH), is now reportedly the world’s wealthiest man, placing him above Amazon boss Jeff Bezos who is said to be worth US$187 billion. Elon Musk, the head of Tesla, is said to be the third...

Chief executives and other senior level business decision-makers aren’t really all that different from the people who keep their companies running efficiently day-in and day-out. They, too, were kept awake in the night during the pandemic, and with many of the same worries – but different.  A big one? Their...