Monica Hunter-Hart is a reporter covering the world's richest people. Unsurprisingly, all but two of them inherited their wealth. That goes for the world’s youngest billionaire, Johannes von ...

The four richest Africans are wealthier than about half of the continent's 750 million people, anti-poverty charity Oxfam ...

The world’s wealthiest people have several things in common, but one of the most prominent is that the 10 richest have more than $100 billion to their name. The very top have $200 billion or more.

It's comparatively 'easy' to make money - when you have money to start with. Compound interest is indeed the eighth wonder of ...