The Financial Review Rich List 2020 is the 37th annual survey of the 200 wealthiest people resident in Australia, published by the Australian Financial Review in The Australian Financial Review Magazine on 30 October 2020.
The net worth of the wealthiest individual, Gina Rinehart, was 28.89 billion; while the net worth of the 200th wealthiest individual, Nigel Satterley, was 540 million; up from 472 million for the 200th individual in 2019. The combined wealth of the 200 individuals was calculated as 424 bn, an increase of 72 bn on the previous year; compared with a combined wealth of 6.4 bn in 1984 when the BRW Rich 200 commenced. The list included nineteen debutants, including three of Rinehart's children.
Rinehart held the mantle of Australia's wealthiest individual between 2011 and 2015; peaking in 2012, when her net worth was assessed at 29.17 bn. From 2017 to 2019, Anthony Pratt was Australia's wealthiest individual, ranked third in the 2020 Rich List, after Andrew Forrest , Australia's wealthiest individual in 2008. Harry Triguboff was Australia's wealthiest individual in 2016, ranked seventh in the 2020 Rich List.
List of individuals 2020NameCitizenshipSource of wealth2019RankNet worth bn Rank Net worth bn 28.89 Hancock Prospecting; investment 13.81 23.00 Fortescue 7.99 19.75 Visy; Pratt Industries 15.57 18.06 Shimao Property 10.39 16.93 Atlassian 9.75 16.69 9.63 14.42 Meriton 13.54 9.18 Mineralogy and other mining interests; hospitality 4.09 8.30 Sir ex-Westfield; property (shopping centres) 8.57 6.26 Property; Seven West Media; resources 5.69 5.45 Property (shopping centres) 6.60 4.93 and family Reece Group 4.07 4.69 Crown Resorts; Consolidated Media Holdings 4.94 4.63 Motherson Sumi Systems 5.50 4.60 Property; investments 1.55 4.54 Glencore commodities trading 7.17 4.51 Competitive Foods Australia; investment 2.79 4.42 and family Gaming; manufacturing 4.01 4.27 Walker Corporation (property) 4.67 4.10 Technology 3.31 3.83 Mining 2.62 3.76 Media 3.62 3.72 Linfox; property 3.31 3.72 Premier Investments; retail 2.83 3.62 and Leonie Baldock Resources 2.38 3.43 and Cliff Obrecht Canva n/a not listed 3.19 Capital Airport Group; property 1.86 2.93 Investment 2.90 2.73 , Monica Weinberg-Saunders and family Property 2.37 2.60 Sir Retail; investment 2.72 2.57 Harvey Norman Holdings 1.90 2.54 Telecommunications 2.03 2.33 Property 2.34 2.31 and family Retail 2.33 2.24 and family Retail 2.34 2.24 News Corporation and Times Newspapers 3.10 2.20 Retail; property; agriculture 2.00 2.13 Financial services; agriculture 1.21 2.05 Hancock Prospecting 3.61 2.05 Hancock Prospecting n/a not listed 2.05 Hancock Prospecting n/a not listed 2.05 Hancock Prospecting n/a not listed 2.05 and family Agriculture; property 2.05 2.04 and family Investor; resources 0.896 2.03 Retail 2.51 2.02 and family Goodman Group; property 1.43 1.98 Property 1.84 1.95 Property 2.05 1.92 Cotton On Group; retail 2.68 1.86 Afterpay; technology 0.487 1.86 0.487 1.86 Ex-Multiplex; investment 2.72 1.83 and family Financial services 1.55 1.79 and family Buckeridge Group of Companies 1.88 1.79 and family Retail 1.33 1.77 Crown Resorts; investment 1.16 1.69 and family Investment 1.57 1.67 IC Markets; financial services n/a not listed 1.67 Toll Holdings 1.77 1.59 and family Manufacturing 1.58 1.58 and family Retail 1.49 1.57 and family Agriculture 1.55 1.54 Gaming; investments 1.32 1.53 Property 1.72 1.49 Investment 1.56 1.48 and family Construction 1.65 1.47 Financial services 0.805 1.46 Financial services 0.890 1.44 Investment 1.35 1.43 QCoal; resources 1.88 1.42 Logistics; investment; property 1.19 1.41 , Zac Freid and family Retail; property 1.61 1.38 Financial services 1.49 1.37 Agriculture 1.39 1.36 Ex-Primo smallgoods; investment 1.31 1.35 Residential property 1.27 1.32 United Petroleum n/a not listed 1.32 n/a not listed 1.31 Retail; property 1.23 1.30 Rydges Hotels & Resorts; Event Cinemas 1.58 1.28 and family Manufacturing 1.69 1.25 and family Property 1.32 1.25 and family Paspaley Pearls 1.12 1.21 and Retail 1.42 1.20 and family Property 1.34 1.19 and family Waste management 0.729 1.17 and family Ex-Inghams Enterprises; manufacturing 1.17 1.17 Super Retail Group; property 1.10 1.16 and family Soul Patts; investment 1.30 1.13 and family Agriculture; property; tourism 1.09 1.12 Resources; hotels 1.24 1.10 Agriculture 1.70 1.10 Chemist Warehouse; retail 0.989 1.08 Investment; property 1.20 1.08 Manildra Group 0.905 1.08 Elphinstone Group; mining services 0.814 1.06 Manufacturing 0.957 1.06 Chemist Warehouse 0.960 1.06 Precision Group; property 1.00 1.02 Agriculture 0.705 1.00 Hotels; property 1.06 1.00 and family Construction; mining services 1.10 1.00 Resources 0.661 1.00 Canva n/a not listed 0.994 and Melbourne Institute of Technology 1.18 0.992 and family Property 1.04 0.983 and family Patrick Corporation 0.977 0.922 Computershare; financial services 1.13 0.904 and family Property 0.834 0.896 Property; thoroughbreds 0.914 0.892 Media 0.728 0.891 Ex-Aussie Home Loans 0.638 0.884 Retail 0.966 0.871 Media 0.871 0.866 and Charlotte Vidor Property; hotels 0.973 0.853 Resources 0.660 0.839 and family, Property 0.882 0.817 Technology n/a not listed 0.835 and family Moose Toys; retail 1.60 0.834 , Shay Lewis-Thorp and family Property 0.851 0.827 Ex-Multiplex; property 0.885 0.820 Technology 0.514 0.802 Briscoe Group 0.761 0.798 Travel; property 0.931 0.795 Sussan; Sportsgirl; Suzanne Grae 0.781 0.793 and family Manufacturing 0.767 0.791 Investment; agriculture 0.771 0.783 Technology n/a not listed 0.780 Technology n/a not listed 0.777 and family Technology 0.974 0.775 Retail; property 0.815 0.770 and family Agriculture 0.802 0.764 Property 0.583 0.761 Technology n/a not listed 0.760 Dodo Services; telecommunications 0.772 0.758 Property 0.746 0.754 Financial services 0.491 0.740 Resources 1.40 0.733 and family Ex-Gull Petroleum 0.713 0.732 Resources; property 0.731 0.731 Investment 0.620 0.728 Media; investment; property 0.670 0.724 and family Manufacturing; food production 0.816 0.721 Property 0.646 0.720 Property 0.798 0.715 Software n/a not listed 0.703 Waste services 0.623 0.702 Food services 1.00 0.699 Energy 0.647 0.695 Technology 0.672 0.694 and family Agriculture 0.506 0.693 Sonic Healthcare 0.503 0.691 Technology 0.905 0.690 Resources 0.662 0.687 Ex-StarTrack 0.639 0.684 Technology; property 0.600 0.684 Media 0.682 0.683 and family Ex-Godfrey Hirst Carpets 0.670 0.680 and Alex Wu Healthcare 0.758 0.667 and family Property 0.651 0.665 Property 0.671 0.664 Property 0.677 0.662 and family Property 0.768 0.655 Financial services 0.491 0.646 Property 0.655 0.645 and family Property 0.637 0.644 Ex-Transpacific; investment 0.655 0.643 and family Financial services n/a not listed 0.639 and family Financial services n/a not listed 0.634 Property 0.679 0.632 and family Investment 0.615 0.629 Investment; services 0.593 0.617 Financial services 0.538 0.613 Financial services 0.596 0.611 Property 0.656 0.608 Financial services 0.517 0.605 Property n/a not listed 0.601 Ex-Menulog; technology 0.605 0.600 Gaming 0.600 0.594 Construction n/a not listed 0.584 Hotels 0.584 0.588 Jaycar; retail n/a not listed 0.587 Technology n/a not listed 0.585 Mining n/a not listed 0.581 Property 0.672 0.580 Agriculture n/a not listed 0.579 Property 0.567 0.575 Kogan.com; technology n/a not listed 0.569 Resources n/a not listed 0.564 Technology n/a not listed 0.560 Resources; property 0.540 0.556 Manufacturing 0.663 0.554 Investment 0.574 0.552 Zip Co; technology n/a not listed 0.550 and Stuart Giles Helathcare n/a not listed 0.549 Financial services 0.512 0.547 and family Manufacturing 0.598 0.546 Property 0.582 0.545 and family Construction 0.781 0.540 Satterley; property 0.564
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Removed from the 2019 list The following individuals, who appeared on the 2019 Financial Review Rich List, did not appear on the 2020 list: 2019NameCitizenshipSource of wealthReasonRankNet worth bn 1.14 Financial services 1.10 Technology 0.885 Technology 0.852 Flight Centre; hotels 0.851 Flight Centre; investment 0.842 Retail 0.765 The Good Guys 0.755 and Max Moar Property 0.745 and family Federal Group; gaming 0.696 Construction 0.623 Travel services 0.594 Darrell Lea; retail 0.575 Financial services 0.560 Ex-Computershare; investment 0.554 Hotels 0.541 Mining services 0.530 and family Ex-Swisse 0.523 Financial services 0.520 Financial services 0.500 Healthcare 0.489 Retail 0.486 and Technology 0.485 Healthcare 0.479 Glencore 0.479 Navitas Group 0.472 Crazy John's
Notes : Individual was listed on a previous year's list, that was not the 2019 Rich List.
See also Financial Review Rich List Forbes Asia list of Australians by net worth
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