Financial Review Rich List 2019
The Financial Review Rich List 2019 is the 36th[note a] annual survey of the 200 wealthiest people resident in Australia, published by The Australian Financial Review on 31 May 2019.[1]
The net worth of the wealthiest individual, Anthony Pratt, was A$15.77 billion; while the net worth of the 200th wealthiest individual, Patricia Ilhan, was A$472 million; up from A$387 million in 2018.[2] The combined wealth of the 200 individuals was calculated as A$342 billion; compared with a combined wealth of A$6.4 billion in 1984 when the BRW Rich 200 commenced.[3] Twenty-six women were included on the 2019 Rich List, representing 13 percent of the list; up from seventeen in 2018, or 8.5 percent.[3] The list included seventeen debutants.[2]
List of individuals
2019[1] | Name | Citizenship | Source of wealth | 2018[4] | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rank | Net worth A$ bn |
Rank | Net worth A$ bn | |||
1 | 15.77 | Anthony Pratt | Visy Industries; Pratt Industries | 1 | 12.90 | |
2 | 13.81 | Gina Rinehart | Hancock Prospecting; investment | 3 | 12.68 | |
3 | 13.54 | Harry Triguboff AO | Meriton Apartments | 2 | 12.77 | |
4 | 10.39 | Hui Wing Mau | Shimao Property | 4 | 9.09 | |
5 | 9.75 | Scott Farquhar | Atlassian | 11 | 5.16 | |
6 | 9.63 | Mike Cannon-Brookes | 12 | 5.16 | ||
7 | 8.57 | Sir Frank Lowy AC | ex-Westfield; property (shopping centres) | 5 | 8.42 | |
8 | 7.99 | Andrew Forrest AO | Fortescue Metals Group | 8 | 6.10 | |
9 | 7.17 | Ivan Glasenberg | Glencore commodities trading | 6 | 8.32 | |
10 | 6.60 | John Gandel AC | Property (shopping centres) | 7 | 6.45 | |
11 | 5.69 | Kerry Stokes AC | Property; Seven West Media; resources | 13 | 4.93 | |
12 | 5.50 | Vivek Chaand Sehgal | Motherson Sumi Systems | 9 | 5.88 | |
13 | 4.94 | James Packer | Crown Resorts; Consolidated Media Holdings | 10 | 5.50 | |
14 | 4.67 | Lang Walker | Walker Corporation (property) | 18 | 3.47 | |
15 | 4.09 | Clive Palmer | Mineralogy and other mining interests; hospitality | 20 | 2.84 | |
16 | 4.07 | Alan Wilson and family | Reece Group | 16 | 3.87 | |
17 | 4.01 | Len Ainsworth AM | Gaming; manufacturing | 14 | 4.02 | |
18 | 3.62 | Lachlan Murdoch | Media | n/a | not listed | |
19 | 3.61 | Bianca Rinehart | Resources | 19 | 3.28 | |
20 | 3.31 | Richard White | Technology | 44 | 1.66 | |
21 | 3.31 | Lindsay Fox AC | Linfox; property | 17 | 3.56 | |
22 | 3.10 | Prudence MacLeod | News Corporation and Times Newspapers Ltd | n/a | not listed | |
23 | 2.90 | David Hains | Investment | 21 | 2.69 | |
24 | 2.83 | Solomon Lew | Premier Investments; retail | 23 | 2.55 | |
25 | 2.79 | Jack Cowin | Competitive Foods Australia; investment | 24 | 2.41 | |
26 | 2.72 | Sir Michael Hintze GCSG, AM | Retail; investment | 22 | 2.43 | |
27 | 2.68 | Nigel Austin | Cotton On Group; retail | 32 | 1.96 | |
28 | 2.62 | Angela Bennett | Mining | 27 | 2.17 | |
29 | 2.51 | John Van Lieshout | Retail | 33 | 1.92 | |
30 | 2.72 | Tim Roberts | Ex-Multiplex; investment | 73 | 1.09 | |
31 | 2.38 | Alexandra Burt and Leonie Baldock | Resources | 30 | 2.08 | |
32 | 2.37 | Betty Klimenko, Monica Weinberg-Saunders and family | Property | n/a | not listed | |
33 | 2.34 | Michael Hodgson | Property | n/a | not listed | |
34 | 2.34 | Marc Besen and family | Retail | 25 | 2.40 | |
35 | 2.33 | Maurice Alter and family | Retail | 26 | 2.26 | |
36 | 2.05 | Tony Perich and family | Agriculture; property | 37 | 1.76 | |
37 | 2.05 | Ye Lipei | Property | 29 | 2.12 | |
38 | 2.03 | David and Vicky Teoh | Telecommunications | 38 | 1.76 | |
39 | 2.00 | Brett Blundy | Retail; property; agriculture | 41 | 1.71 | |
40 | 1.90 | Gerry Harvey | Harvey Norman Holdings | 28 | 2.12 | |
41 | 1.88 | Sam and Andrew Buckeridge and family | Buckeridge Group of Companies | n/a | not listed | |
42 | 1.88 | Chris Wallin | Resources | 34 | 1.79 | |
43 | 1.86 | Terry Snow AM | Capital Airport Group; property | 52 | 1.46 | |
44 | 1.84 | Bob Ell | Property | 48 | 1.56 | |
45 | 1.77 | Paul Little AO | Toll Holdings | 50 | 1.54 | |
46 | 1.72 | Sam Tarascio | Property | 51 | 1.54 | |
47 | 1.70 | John Kahlbetzer | Agriculture | 42 | 1.70 | |
48 | 1.69 | Huang Bingwen and family | Manufacturing | 43 | 1.66 | |
49 | 1.65 | Raymond Barro and family | Construction | n/a | not listed | |
50 | 1.61 | Morry Fraid, Zac Freid and family | Retail; property | 46 | 1.61 | |
51 | 1.60 | Manny Stul and family | Moose Toys; retail | 40 | 1.73 | |
52 | 1.58 | Alan Rydge | Rydges Hotels & Resorts; Event Cinemas | 49 | 1.56 | |
53 | 1.58 | Jonathan Munz and family | Manufacturing | 62 | 1.24 | |
54 | 1.57 | Paul Salteri AM and family | Investment | 57 | 1.28 | |
55 | 1.55 | John Casella and family | Agriculture | n/a | not listed | |
56 | 1.56 | Alex Waislitz | Investment | 54 | 1.39 | |
57 | 1.55 | Michael Heine and family | Financial services | 58 | 1.27 | |
58 | 1.55 | Chau Chak Wing | Property; investments | 45 | 1.63 | |
59 | 1.49 | Yasser, Samer, and Khalil Shahin and family | Retail | n/a | not listed | |
60 | 1.49 | Kerr Neilson | Financial services | 35 | 1.78 | |
61 | 1.43 | Greg Goodman and family | Goodman Group; property | 70 | 1.15 | |
62 | 1.42 | Bill Roche and Imelda Roche AO | Retail | 146 | 0.566 | |
63 | 1.40 | Brian Flannery | Resources | 56 | 1.33 | |
64 | 1.39 | Chris Thomas | Agriculture | 65 | 1.20 | |
65 | 1.35 | Judith Neilson | Investment | 36 | 1.77 | |
66 | 1.34 | Nechama Werdiger and family | Property | 87 | 0.859 | |
67 | 1.33 | Russell Withers and family | Retail | 59 | 1.27 | |
68 | 1.32 | Bruce Mathieson | Gaming; investments | 66 | 1.18 | |
69 | 1.32 | Con Makris and family | Property | 60 | 1.26 | |
70 | 1.31 | Paul Lederer | Ex-Primo smallgoods; investment | 71 | 1.14 | |
71 | 1.30 | Robert Millner and family | Washington H. Soul Pattinson; investment | 69 | 1.16 | |
72 | 1.27 | Maha Sinnathamby | Residential property | 64 | 1.21 | |
73 | 1.24 | Sam Chong | Resources; hotels | 92 | 0.817 | |
74 | 1.23 | Nick Politis AM | Retail; property | 55 | 1.35 | |
75 | 1.21 | Peter, Andrew and Lex Greensill | Financial services; agriculture | n/a | not listed | |
76 | 1.20 | Ralph Sarich AO | Investment; property | 63 | 1.23 | |
77 | 1.19 | Peter Gunn | Logistics; investment; property | 67 | 1.17 | |
78 | 1.18 | Jamuna Gurung and Shesh Ghale | Melbourne Institute of Technology | 81 | 0.647 | |
79 | 1.17 | Bob Ingham AO | Ex-Inghams Enterprises | 68 | 1.16 | |
80 | 1.16 | Gretel Packer | Crown Resorts; investment | 61 | 1.26 | |
81 | 1.14 | Jeff Chapman | Financial services | 72 | 1.13 | |
82 | 1.13 | Chris Morris | Computershare; financial services | 76 | 1.02 | |
83 | 1.12 | Nicholas Paspaley and family | Paspaley Pearls | n/a | not listed | |
84 | 1.10 | Joseph, Neill, Denis and John Wagner | Construction; mining services | 1.28 | ||
85 | 1.10 | Reg and Hazel Rowe | Super Retail Group; property | 75 | 1.14 | |
86 | 1.10 | Tim Kentley-Klay | Technology | 143 | 0.58 | |
87 | 1.09 | Sandy Oatley and family | Agriculture; property; tourism | 74 | 1.07 | |
88 | 1.06 | Justin Hemmes | Hotels; property | 78 | 0.951 | |
89 | 1.04 | Gordon Fu and family | Property | 88 | 0.858 | |
90 | 1.00 | Shaun Bonétt | Precision Group; property | 96 | 0.784 | |
91 | 1.00 | Richard Smith | Food services | 77 | 0.999 | |
92 | 0.989 | Jack Gance | Chemist Warehouse; retail | 93 | 0.813 | |
93 | 0.977 | Peter Scanlon and family | Patrick Corporation | 90 | 0.843 | |
94 | 0.974 | Cyan and Collis Ta'eed and family | Technology | n/a | not listed | |
95 | 0.973 | Ervin and Charlotte Vidor | Property; hotels | 79 | 0.927 | |
96 | 0.966 | Laurie Sutton | Retail | 188 | 0.432 | |
97 | 0.960 | Mario Verrocchi | Chemist Warehouse | 94 | 0.803 | |
98 | 0.957 | Raphael Geminder | Manufacturing | 53 | 0.957 | |
99 | 0.931 | Spiros Alysandratos | Travel; property | 83 | 0.869 | |
100 | 0.914 | Lloyd Williams | Property; thoroughbreds | 95 | 0.787 | |
101 | 0.905 | Christian Beck | Technology | 99 | 0.775 | |
102 | 0.905 | Dick Honan | Manildra Group | 179 | 0.475 | |
103 | 0.896 | Kie Chie Wong and family | Investor; resources | n/a | not listed | |
104 | 0.890 | Chris Mackay | Financial services | 118 | 0.680 | |
105 | 0.885 | Patrick Grove | Technology | 89 | 0.850 | |
106 | 0.885 | Andrew Roberts | Ex-Multiplex; property | 91 | 0.822 | |
107 | 0.882 | Shangjin Lin and family | Property | n/a | not listed | |
108 | 0.871 | Joy Chambers-Grundy | Media | n/a | not listed | |
109 | 0.852 | Graham Turner | Flight Centre; hotels | 86 | 0.861 | |
110 | 0.851 | Marnie Lewis-Millar and Shay Lewis-Thorp | Property | n/a | not listed | |
111 | 0.851 | Geoff Harris | Flight Centre; investment | 84 | 0.867 | |
112 | 0.842 | Bill James | Retail | 85 | 0.863 | |
113 | 0.834 | Rod Spooner and family | Property | n/a | not listed | |
114 | 0.816 | John Camilleri and family | Manufacturing; food production | n/a | not listed | |
115 | 0.815 | Theo Karedis | Retail; property | 105 | 0.737 | |
116 | 0.814 | Dale Elphinstone | Elphinstone Group; mining services | 104 | 0.739 | |
117 | 0.805 | Hamish Douglass | Financial services | 135 | 0.617 | |
118 | 0.802 | Frank Costa AO and family | Agriculture | 127 | 0.655 | |
119 | 0.798 | Jonathan Hallinan | Property | 123 | 0.667 | |
120 | 0.781 | Scott Hutchinson and family | Construction | n/a | not listed | |
121 | 0.781 | Naomi Milgrom AO | Sussan; Sportsgirl; Suzanne Grae | 133 | 0.625 | |
122 | 0.772 | Larry Kestelman | Dodo Services; telecommunications | 97 | 0.784 | |
123 | 0.771 | Allan Myers AC, QC | Investment; agriculture | 102 | 0.749 | |
124 | 0.768 | Kevin Seymour and family | Property | 108 | 0.714 | |
125 | 0.767 | Harry Stamoulis and family | Manufacturing | 125 | 0.660 | |
126 | 0.765 | Andrew Muir | The Good Guys | 109 | 0.708 | |
127 | 0.761 | Rod Duke | Briscoe Group | 103 | 0.744 | |
128 | 0.758 | Jina Chen and Alex Wu | Healthcare | 100 | 0.756 | |
129 | 0.755 | Iris Lustig-Moar and Max Moar | Property | 106 | 0.730 | |
130 | 0.746 | Arnold Vitocco | Property | n/a | not listed | |
131 | 0.745 | Greg Farrell and family | Federal Group; gaming | n/a | not listed | |
132 | 0.731 | Travers Duncan | Resources; property | 110 | 0.706 | |
133 | 0.729 | John Richards and family | Waste management | n/a | not listed | |
134 | 0.728 | Bruce Gordon | Media | 113 | 0.702 | |
135 | 0.713 | Neil Rae | Ex-Gull Petroleum | n/a | not listed | |
136 | 0.705 | Trevor Lee | Agriculture | 130 | 0.646 | |
137 | 0.696 | Mick Power | Construction | 115 | 0.689 | |
138 | 0.682 | Paul Fudge | Media | 121 | 0.673 | |
139 | 0.679 | Jack Bendat AM | Property | 111 | 0.704 | |
140 | 0.677 | Robert Magid AM | Property | 168 | 0.513 | |
141 | 0.672 | Tim Gurner | Property | 144 | 0.574 | |
142 | 0.672 | Ori Allon | Technology | 191 | 0.413 | |
143 | 0.671 | Max Beck | Property | 124 | 0.660 | |
144 | 0.670 | Kim McKendrick and family | Ex-Godfrey Hirst Carpets | 126 | 0.657 | |
145 | 0.670 | John Singleton | Media; investment; property | 161 | 0.534 | |
146 | 0.663 | Gordon Martin | Manufacturing | 148 | 0.561 | |
147 | 0.662 | Kerry Harmanis | Resources | 128 | 0.654 | |
148 | 0.661 | Chris Ellison | Resources | 98 | 0.783 | |
149 | 0.660 | Mark Creasy | Resources | 114 | 0.689 | |
150 | 0.656 | Garry Rothwell | Property | n/a | not listed | |
151 | 0.655 | Andrew and Michael Buxton | Property | 119 | 0.676 | |
152 | 0.655 | Terry Peabody | Ex-Transpacific; investment | 131 | 0.638 | |
153 | 0.651 | Diane Burger and family | Property | n/a | not listed | |
154 | 0.647 | Trevor St Baker | Energy | 180 | 0.472 | |
155 | 0.646 | Nick DiMauro | Property | 136 | 0.611 | |
156 | 0.639 | Greg Poche | Ex-StarTrack | 129 | 0.651 | |
157 | 0.638 | John Symond AM | Ex-Aussie Home Loans | 134 | 0.621 | |
158 | 0.637 | Zig Inge and family | Property | 132 | 0.631 | |
159 | 0.623 | Ian Malouf | Waste services | n/a | not listed | |
160 | 0.623 | Jamie Pherous | Travel services | 141 | 0.586 | |
161 | 0.620 | Robert Whyte | Investment | 156 | 0.536 | |
162 | 0.615 | Rhonda Wyllie and family | Investment | n/a | not listed | |
163 | 0.605 | Leon Kamenev | Ex-Menulog; technology | 138 | 0.589 | |
164 | 0.600 | Zeljko Ranogajec | Gaming | n/a | not listed | |
165 | 0.600 | George Kepper | Technology; property | 157 | 0.535 | |
166 | 0.598 | Sunny Ngai and family | Manufacturing | n/a | not listed | |
167 | 0.596 | David Paradice | Financial services | 165 | 0.519 | |
168 | 0.594 | Christina and Tony Quinn | Darrell Lea; retail | 139 | 0.588 | |
169 | 0.593 | John Higgins | Investment; services | 154 | 0.549 | |
170 | 0.584 | Arthur Laundy | Hotels | 170 | 0.506 | |
171 | 0.583 | Diana and Rino Grollo | Property | 158 | 0.534 | |
172 | 0.582 | Danny Hill | Property | 142 | 0.580 | |
173 | 0.575 | Graham Tuckwell | Financial services | 149 | 0.560 | |
174 | 0.574 | Grahame Mapp | Investment | 150 | 0.559 | |
175 | 0.567 | Paul Blackburne | Property | 152 | 0.553 | |
176 | 0.564 | Nigel Satterley | Satterley; property | 155 | 0.546 | |
177 | 0.560 | Tony Wales | Ex-Computershare; investment | 167 | 0.519 | |
178 | 0.554 | Jerry Schwartz | Hotels | n/a | not listed | |
179 | 0.541 | Kevin Maloney | Mining services | 160 | 0.534 | |
180 | 0.540 | Tony Poli | Resources; property | 162 | 0.529 | |
181 | 0.538 | Owen Kerr | Financial services | 182 | 0.459 | |
182 | 0.530 | Stephen Ring and family | Ex-Swisse | n/a | not listed | |
183 | 0.523 | Hilton Nathanson | Financial services | 163 | 0.527 | |
184 | 0.520 | Seumas Dawes | Financial services | 172 | 0.503 | |
185 | 0.517 | Will Vicars | Financial services | 164 | 0.527 | |
186 | 0.514 | Anthony Hall | Technology | n/a | not listed | |
187 | 0.512 | Andrew Abercrombie | Financial services | 153 | 0.549 | |
188 | 0.506 | Peter Hughes and family | Agriculture | 175 | 0.491 | |
189 | 0.503 | Michael Boyd | Sonic Healthcare | 169 | 0.511 | |
190 | 0.500 | Ian Roberts | Healthcare | 166 | 0.519 | |
191 | 0.491 | Peter Cooper | Financial services | 173 | 0.499 | |
192 | 0.491 | Greg Coffey | Financial services | 177 | 0.486 | |
193 | 0.489 | Neville Bertalli | Retail | n/a | not listed | |
194 | 0.487 | Nick Molnar | Afterpay | n/a | not listed | |
195 | 0.487 | Anthony Eisen | n/a | not listed | ||
196 | 0.486 | Tobias Pearce and Kayla Itsines | Technology | n/a | not listed | |
197 | 0.485 | Alan and Irene Messer | Healthcare | n/a | not listed | |
198 | 0.479 | Steven Kalmin | Glencore | 151 | 0.479 | |
199 | 0.479 | Rod Jones | Navitas Group | 176 | 0.450 | |
200 | 0.472 | Patricia Ilhan | Crazy John's | 194 | 0.407 |
Legend Icon Description Has not changed from the previous year's list Has increased from the previous year's list Has decreased from the previous year's list
See also
- Financial Review Rich List
- Forbes Asia list of Australians by net worth
Notes
^[note a] : By calculation, the 2019 list is the 36th edition published, despite the reference by Nine Entertainment that the list is the 37th edition published.[2]
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