Topic: Wealth

According to Australia's BRW magazine, mining magnate Gina Rinehart’s net worth is now $28.5 billion. That tops WalMart heiress Christy Walton’s $26 billion pile.    Read More

Here in one of the richest corners of the country, the tech elite display an ambivalent, sometimes contradictory approach to wealth. Money is a measure of the power of the companies that entrepreneurs have built, rather than a thing to display.    Read More

New studies show that the wealthy are pulling back from stocks  and stashing more of their money into real-estate, art and even diamonds.   Read More

In making his case, says most major wealth creation comes from doing what other people consider insufferably boring.   Read More

Who wants their kid to be a millionaire? Ron Lieber of the New York Times looks at books advising upwardly mobile parents.    Read More

All six partners at Andreessen Horowitz are committing to donate at least half of their lifetime income from venture capital investments to charity.    Read More

Fifty percent of all wealthy Americans are now optimistic about the economy, up 12 percent this year and the highest in about a year, a new survey says.    Read More

High earners worried that this year’s Tax Day will be the last before their rates rise have more than the White House and Washington to blame. They can also look to two academically revered French economists whose work is the subtext for the battle over tax fairness.   Read More

While it’s generally accepted that John Jacob Astor IV was the richest man in the world when he went down with the ship, estimates of his personal fortune range wildly.   Read More

Wells Fargo & Co opened its new Abbot Downing business on Monday, officially merging two of its wealth management units under a new brand it hopes will expand its market share of America's richest families.    Read More