The BRW Rich 200, 2016 is the 33rd annual survey of the wealthiest people resident in Australia, published in The Australian Financial Review on 27 May 2016.[1] [2] From its establishment in 1984 and up until the publication of the 2016 list, the survey had been published in either hardcopy and/or online format in the BRW, or formerly, the Business Review Weekly. On 4 March 2016, Fairfax Media announced the closure of the BRW website, and redirected the site to a new section of The Australian Financial Review. Rich lists are now published in The Australian Financial Review Magazine and in 2017 were rebranded as the Financial Review Rich List.[3]
In the 2016 list, the net worth of the wealthiest individual, Harry Triguboff, was 10.62 billion. The combined wealth of the 200 individuals was calculated as 197.3 billion;[2] compared with a combined wealth of 6.4 billion in 1984 when the BRW Rich 200 commenced.[4]
| 2016 | Name | Citizenship | Source of wealth | 2015[5] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Net worth bn | Rank | Net worth bn | ||||
| 10.62 | 10.23 | ||||||
| 10.35 | Visy Industries
| 10.76 | |||||
| 8.26 | Westfield
| 7.84 | |||||
| 6.06 | Hancock Prospecting
| 14.02 | |||||
| 5.45 | Property (shopping centres) | 4.40 | |||||
| 5.39 | [6] | 6.89 | |||||
| 5.00 | Crown Resorts | 6.08 | |||||
| 3.33 | 2.83 | ||||||
| 3.33 | [7] [8] | 6.14 | |||||
| 2.88 | Property | 2.65 | |||||
| Legend | ||
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| Icon | Description | |
| Has not changed from the previous year's list | ||
| Has increased from the previous year's list | ||
| Has decreased from the previous year's list | ||