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A closer look at three of the most private and low-key tycoons in the Forbes Philippines rich list

Say Henry Sy's name, and people will recognize him as the founder of local retail giant SM. They might even know that he’s the country’s richest person (it's a title he’s held for the past 11 years).And that’s true for most of the country’s ...

Besides the battle between the Fighting Maroons and Blue Eagles, here's another head-to-head we're interested in

School pride runs deep in the Philippines. Just look at the amount of support both the UP Fighting Maroons and the Ateneo Blue Eagles have been receiving during UAAP Season 81’s men’s basketball finals—both in audience turnaround and social media.The supporters range ...

This year saw the most number of new entries and exits in the exclusive list since 2013

Business magazine Forbes’ latest list of the Philippines’ 50 richest people features six new names. That’s the highest number of newcomers since 2013, when the list was expanded from 40 tycoons to 50.Leading the six newcomers is William Belo, the founder and ...

A quick comparison of the richest billionaires from the US and the Asia-Pacific region

Among the many factors fueling the hype for Crazy Rich Asians, a film based on a novel of the same name published in 2013, is the rare glimpse it gives to ultra wealthy Asian societies, a group that is much less talked ...

The company's stock price rose 1,400 percent since the start of the year

Though ranking only seventh among Filipinos in the recently-released Forbes’ global billionaires list, property developer and former Senate President Manuel Villar still stands out for doubling his net worth from $1.5 billion in February 2017 to $3 billion in February 2018.   Of all the ...

The SM Group founder is richer than the heads of Japan’s Uniqlo and of South Korea’s Samsung

Henry Sy Sr., 93, remains the country’s richest Filipino for the 10th year in a row as he leads the 12 Filipinos who made it to the exclusive 2018 Forbes World’s Billionaires List, released on March 6, Tuesday.Sy ranked at 52nd place among the ...

Henry Sy Sr. would land on the 25th spot while John Gokongwei Jr. would be 97th in the US rankings

Forbes magazine released the 2017 Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest people in America in October. Bill Gates led the 36th edition of the annual list with a net worth of $89 billion, followed by Jeff Bezos with $81.5 billion.The minimum net ...

The 50 Asian families who made the list have a combined net worth of $700 billion

Two Filipino clans made it to the list of Asia’s 50 Richest Families, which was released by business magazine Forbes earlier this week.The Sys ranked ninth in the list with a net worth of $20.1 billion, a 63.4-percent increase from $12.3 billion ...

The children and holding companies of Henry Sy Sr. and other members of the country's rich list hold the biggest stakes in the country's most valuable enterprises

Individuals and companies belonging to some of the country's richest families topped the list of shareholders of the Philippines' 100 most valuable companies* listed at the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), according to Forbes Philippines magazine.Among individual shareholders, these included the children of ...