Financial Review Rich List 2021

The Financial Review Rich List 2021 is the 38th annual survey of the 200 wealthiest people resident in Australia, published by the Australian Financial Review on 27 May 2021.

The net worth of the wealthiest individual, Gina Rinehart, was $31.06 billion; while the net worth of the 200th wealthiest individual, Douglas Clarke, was {$590 million; up from $540 million for the 200th individual in 2020. The combined wealth of the 200 individuals was calculated as $479.6 bn, an increase of $55.6 bn on the previous year; compared with a combined wealth of $6.4 bn in 1984 when the BRW Rich 200 commenced.^[1]^[2] Thirty-nine women were included on the 2021 Rich List, representing 19.5 percent of the list; up from thirty women in 2020, or 12 percent. The list included eighteen debutants.^[3]^[4]

Rinehart held the mantle of Australia's wealthiest individual between 2011 and 2015; and was also the wealthiest Australian individual in 2020.^[1]^[5] From 2017 to 2019, Anthony Pratt was Australia's wealthiest individual, ranked fourth in the 2021 Rich List, after Andrew Forrest,^[2] Australia's wealthiest individual in 2008,^[6]^[7] and Mike Cannon-Brookes. Harry Triguboff was Australia's wealthiest individual in 2016,^[8]^[9] ranked sixth in the 2021 Rich List.^[3]

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2020^[1]		Name	Citizenship	Source of wealth	Reason (other than financial)
Rank	Net worth A$ bn	Name	Citizenship	Source of wealth	Reason (other than financial)
38	2.13	Peter, Andrew and Lex Greensill	Australia United Kingdom	Financial services; agriculture	Greensill scandal^[14]^[15]^[16]^[17]
118	0.817	Eddie Machaalani	Australia	Technology
129	0.780	Mitchell Harper	Australia	Technology
133	0.764	Diana and Rino Grollo	Australia	Property	Parts of Grocon were placed in administration in November 2020^[18]^[19]
143	0.724	Paul Baiada and family	Australia	Manufacturing; food production
178	0.601	Leon Kamenev	Australia	Ex-Menulog; technology
182	0.588	Gary Johnston	Australia	Jaycar; retail
184	0.585	Tony Haggarty	Australia	Mining
186	0.580	Jiwan and Suman Mohan	Australia	Agriculture
188	0.575	Ruslan Kogan	Australia	Kogan.com; technology
189	0.569	Geoff Lord	Australia	Resources
190	0.564	Bevan Slattery	Australia	Technology
191	0.560	Tony Poli	Australia	Resources; property
192	0.556	Gordon Martin	Australia	Manufacturing
193	0.554	Grahame Mapp	Australia	Investment
195	0.550	Cathie Reid and Stuart Giles	Australia	Helathcare
196	0.549	Andrew Abercrombie	Australia	Financial services
198	0.546	Danny Hill	Monaco	Property
199	0.545	Scott Hutchinson and family	Australia	Construction
200	0.540	Nigel Satterley	Australia	Satterley; property

Financial Review Rich List 2021

List of individuals

Removed from the 2021 list

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2021^[3]		Name	Citizenship	Source of wealth	2020^[1]
Rank	Net worth A$ bn	Name	Citizenship	Source of wealth	Rank	Net worth A$ bn
1	31.06	Gina Rinehart	Australia	Hancock Prospecting; investment	1	28.89
2	27.25	Andrew Forrest	Australia	Fortescue Metals Group	2	23.00
3	20.18	Mike Cannon-Brookes	Australia	Atlassian	5	16.93
4	20.09	Anthony Pratt and family	Australia	Visy; Pratt Industries	3	19.75
5	20.00	Scott Farquhar	Australia	Atlassian	6	16.69
6	17.27	Harry Triguboff	Australia	Meriton Apartments	7	14.42
7	13.01	Clive Palmer	Australia	Mineralogy and other mining interests; hospitality	8	9.18
8	11.70	Hui Wing Mau	People's Republic of China Australia^[10]	Shimao Property	4	18.06
9	8.51	Sir Frank Lowy	Australia	ex-Westfield; property	9	8.30
10	7.98	Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht	Australia	Canva	26	3.43
11	7.86	Alan Wilson and family	Australia	Reece Group	12	4.93
12	7.39	Ivan Glasenberg	Australia^[11] South Africa Switzerland^[12]	Glencore commodities trading	16	4.54
13	7.18	Kerry Stokes	Australia	Property; Seven West Media; resources	10	6.26
14	5.80	John Gandel	Australia	Property (shopping centres)	11	5.45
15	5.72	James Packer	Australia	Crown Resorts; Consolidated Media Holdings	13	4.69
16	5.04	Len Ainsworth and family	Australia	Gaming; manufacturing	18	4.42
17	4.94	Jack Cowin	Australia	Competitive Foods Australia; investment	17	4.51
18	4.76	Vivek Chaand Sehgal	Australia	Motherson Sumi Systems	14	4.63
19	4.70	Richard White	Australia	Technology	20	4.10
20	4.57	Chau Chak Wing	Australia	Property; investments	15	4.60
21	4.48	Lang Walker	Australia	Walker Corporation (property)	19	4.27
22	4.43	Lachlan Murdoch	United States United Kingdom Australia^[13]	Media	22	3.76
23	4.37	Solomon Lew	Australia	Premier Investments; retail	24	3.72
24	4.13	Angela Bennett	Australia	Mining	21	3.83
25	4.01	Lindsay Fox	Australia	Linfox; property	23	3.72
26	3.96	Andrew Budzinski	Cyprus	IC Markets; financial services	58	1.67
27	3.96	Alexandra Burt and Leonie Baldock	Australia	Resources	25	3.62
28	3.20	Gerry Harvey and Katie Page	Australia	Harvey Norman	31	2.57
29	3.19	Morry Fraid, Zac Fried and family	Australia	Retail; property	72	1.41
30	2.99	Greg Goodman and family	Australia	Goodman Group; property	46	2.02
31	2.89	David Hains	Australia	Investment	28	2.93
32	2.80	Prudence MacLeod	Australia	News Corporation and News UK	36	2.24
33	2.79	Michael Heine and family	Australia	Financial services	53	1.83
34	2.69	Tony Perich and family	Australia	Agriculture; property	43	2.05
35	2.68	Laurence Escalante	Australia	Gaming	n/a	not listed
36	2.67	Nick Molnar	Australia	Afterpay; technology	50	1.86
37	2.66	Betty Klimenko, Monica Weinberg-Saunders and family	Australia	Property	29	2.73
38	2.66	Anthony Eisen	Australia	Afterpay; technology	51	1.86
39	2.65	Brett Blundy	Australia	Retail; property; agriculture	37	2.20