BRW Rich 200, 2015

This article is about the BRW Rich List published in 2015. For general information about the list, see Financial Review Rich List.

The BRW Rich 200, 2015 is the 32nd annual survey of the wealthiest people resident in Australia, published online by The Australian Financial Review in June 2015.[1]

In the 2015 list, the net worth of the wealthiest individual, Gina Rinehart, was A$14.02 billion.

The BRW Rich Families List was published annually between 2008 and 2015. In every year of its publication the Smorgon family headed the list, with estimated wealth of A$2.74 billion in 2015 spread across seven branches of the family.[2] In 2015 the list comprised fifty families with an entry point of A$302 million.[3] The families list was last published in 2015.

List of individuals

2015[1] Name Citizenship Source of wealth 2014[4]
Rank Net worth
A$ bn 		Rank Net worth
A$ bn
1 Steady 14.02 Decrease Gina Rinehart  Australia Hancock Prospecting; investment 1 Steady 20.01 Decrease
2 Steady 10.76 Increase Anthony Pratt  Australia Visy Industries; Pratt Industries 2 Increase 7.64 Increase
3 Increase 10.23 Increase Harry Triguboff AO  Australia Meriton Apartments 8 Decrease 5.50 Increase
4 Steady 7.84 Increase Frank Lowy AC  Australia Westfield; property (shopping centres) 4 Decrease 7.16 Increase
5 Increase 6.89 Increase Hui Wing Mau  People's Republic of China
 Australia[5]		 Shimao Property 6 Increase 6.35 Increase
6 Increase 6.14 Decrease Ivan Glasenberg  Australia[6]
 South Africa
 Switzerland[7]		 Glencore commodities trading 5 Steady 6.63 Increase
7 Decrease 6.08 Decrease James Packer  Australia Crown Resorts; Consolidated Media Holdings 3 Steady 7.19 Increase
8 Decrease 4.40 Increase John Gandel AO  Australia Property (shopping centres) 9 Decrease 4.08 Increase
9 Decrease 2.83 Decrease Andrew Forrest  Australia Fortescue Metals Group 7 Increase 5.86 Increase
10 Increase 2.65 Decrease Stan Perron AM  Australia Property 11 Increase 2.73 Increase
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List of families

2015[3] Name Citizenship Source of wealth 2014[8]
Rank Net worth
A$ bn 		Rank Net worth
A$ bn
1 Steady 2.74 Decrease Smorgon family  Australia Investment 1 Steady 2.77 Increase
2 Increase 2.60 Increase Wilson family  Australia Retail (plumbing) 3 Increase 2.34 Increase
3 Decrease 2.53 Increase Liberman family  Australia Investment 2 Steady 2.45 Increase
4 Increase 2.46 Increase Buckeridge family  Australia Manufacturing (building materials); construction 5 Steady 2.19 Steady
5 Decrease 2.41 Increase Besen family  Australia Property; retail 4 Decrease 2.29 Increase
6 Steady 2.08 Increase Myer family  Australia Retail; property; investment 6 Decrease 2.05 Increase
7 Steady 1.89 Increase Roberts family  Australia Investment; property 7 Increase 1.86 Increase
8 Increase 1.25 Increase Barro family  Australia Building services 12 Increase 1.08 Increase
9 Steady 1.20 Decrease Salteri family  Australia Tenix; infrastructure investment (roads and services) 9 Steady 1.26 Increase
10 Steady 1.17 Decrease Talbot family  Australia Resources 10 Decrease 1.18 Decrease
10 Increase 2.74 Decrease Tieck family  Australia Investment; property 11 Decrease 1.13 Increase
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Steady Has not changed from the previous year's list
Increase Has increased from the previous year's list
Decrease Has decreased from the previous year's list

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Stensholt, John, ed. (June 2015). "2015 BRW Rich 200". BRW. Sydney. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  2. ^ Stensholt, John (7 October 2015). "Poultry to property: how Australia's richest families are making second fortunes". BRW. Fairfax Media. Archived from the original on 13 October 2015. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  3. ^ a b "Rich Families List 2015". BRW. Australia. 7 October 2015. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  4. ^ Stensholt, John, ed. (26 June 2014). "2014 BRW Rich 200". BRW. Sydney. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  5. ^ Chancellor, Jonathan (22 May 2013). "Billionaire property developer Hui Wing Mau the highest debutant on BRW Rich List". SmartCompany. Archived from the original on 26 July 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  6. ^ Wen, Philip (26 May 2011). "Mystery billionaire emerges from corporate shadows". Executive Style. Australia. Archived from the original on 9 October 2019. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  7. ^ Glasenberg, Ivan (5 May 2013). "Letztlich macht es keine Differenz, ob Ihr Vermögen eine Milliarde beträgt oder sechs". SonntagsZeitung (Interview) (in German). Interviewed by Martin Spieler. Archived from the original on 6 May 2013. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  8. ^ "Rich Families List 2014". BRW. Australia. 21 August 2014. Retrieved 26 October 2015.