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

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]

References

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