Naazneen Karmali

3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Naazneen Karmali |Jessica Tan |Ariel Shapiro |Grace Chung

Goh Cheng Liang gets the bulk of his wealth from a majority stake in Japan's Nippon Paint Holdings, the world's fourth-largest paint manufacturer by revenue. Goh started making paints in a small factory in Singapore before he went on to partner with Nippon Paint in 1962. In 2021, his son, Hup Jin, who chairs Nippon Paint, completed a $12 billion stock and cash deal that gave him a majority stake in Nippon. The company celebrated its 140th anniversary in 2021.

4 weeks ago | forbes.com | Naazneen Karmali

Since the Covid-19 pandemic shut down our lives five years ago, no singular event has reverberated so swiftly around the world as U.S. President Donald Trump’s move to make good on one of his big campaign promises. While the global panic attack abated after Trump paused most tariffs for three months—apart from retaining a baseline 10% tax, bar China, where he ratcheted up levies—the world trade order is heading for a major reset. How should businesses navigate the turbulence?

1 month ago | forbes.com.au | Mark Whittaker |Naazneen Karmali

This story was featured in Issue 16 of Forbes Australia. Tap here to secure your copy. Sometimes it’s hard for Shelley Sullivan to look women in the eye and tell them they can do what she’s done. Her mind goes back to those months flying the world, pregnant way beyond the usually allowable limits, ringing the hospital to make sure it had an ADSL internet connection because she had to sign off on something for David Jones before the birth.

1 month ago | forbes.com | Naazneen Karmali

Despite a stock market correction and a weaker rupee, there are a record 205 Indian citizens on Forbes’ World’s Billionaires list. The 10 richest account for over a third of their cumulative total net worth of $941 billion. Global jitters, caused by the tariffs tsunami unleashed by President Donald Trump, took a toll on India’s stock markets, which corrected after last year’s stratospheric rise.

1 month ago | forbes.com.au | Sylvan Lebrun |Chase Peterson-Withorn |Naazneen Karmali

Skip to content Billionaires Published on April 1, 2025 There are now more than 3,000 billionaires around the world, and they’re richer than ever, worth a combined $16.1 trillion. But the distribution of this extreme affluence is far from equal. Just three nations account for more than 50% of all billionaires (and billionaire wealth), while 17 other countries each have just one citizen in the three-comma club. Nearly a third of this year’s list hails from the United States, which remains the...