The Global Desks
Regions
Wealth is built differently in different places. Each desk follows the billionaires, business empires and investment moves of its own region — reported from the markets themselves.
The Africa Desk
Africa
Africa’s largest fortunes are concentrated in cement, telecoms, energy and consumer goods — industries built for fast-growing domestic markets rather than exported to them.
The Asia Desk
Asia
Asia produces more billionaires than any other region, spanning Chinese manufacturing and technology, Indian conglomerates, Japanese retail and Southeast Asian commodities.
The Europe Desk
Europe
European wealth skews toward luxury houses, family-held industrial groups and private banking — fortunes that are frequently inherited and measured in generations.
The £2.5 Billion Stuck in Limbo: Abramovich's Frozen Chelsea Fortune Keeps Growing
Roman Abramovich's frozen Chelsea sale proceeds have ballooned to nearly £2.5 billion, earning £175 million in interest while a legal standoff prevents the money from reaching Ukraine. The saga raises urgent questions about how—and when—frozen philanthropic capital can ever be deployed.
Bernie Ecclestone's Shotgun Seizure: A 95-Year-Old's Luxury Jet, a Missing License, and the High-Stakes Rules of Moving Private Firearms
WA talks up its energy future at Norway's ONS as coal exit looms
Marseille's Second Act: The Rough-Diamond Revival of France's Most Seductive Port
The Middle East Desk
Middle East
Middle Eastern fortunes centre on energy, construction, sovereign-adjacent investment and, increasingly, technology and sport.
The North America Desk
North America
North America holds the largest single concentration of extreme wealth, dominated by technology, finance and retail — and more self-made than any other region.
The South America Desk
South America
South American fortunes are built on mining, agriculture, banking and brewing — resource and consumer businesses at continental scale.
The Oceania Desk
Oceania
Australian and New Zealand wealth is anchored in mining, property and retail, shaped by decades of resource exports to Asia.
Warren Buffett, 96, hands over Berkshire chairman's gavel after six decades
Warren Buffett, 96, steps down as Berkshire Hathaway chairman, closing a six-decade era and reshaping how Oceania's investors read global capital.
Nscale's New York Listing Could Hand Founder Joshua Payne a Near-$500m Payday
Osaka Gas Takes 5pc Browse Stake From BP as Japan Deepens Western Australia Gas Bet
