Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud: Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud, who is next in the list of high profile investors in the world, is also known to be one of the most highly influential people in the Arab world. This real time investor has made his fortune from real estate in hotels, and also boasts an impressive portfolio in other industries like banking, media and various entertainment projects. Alsaud also owns stakes in private and public companies in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East, mostly through Kingdom Holding Co., 5 percent of which is listed on the Saudi Stock Exchange. Being the owner of Kingdom Holding Company, he has also hired a number of other leaders to maintain his wealth. His net worth is $20-30 billion.

Carl Icahn: Carl Ichan being an investor and a businessman in America also holds large number of shares of Ichan enterprises. He is a graduate from Princeton University and he started his career as a stockbroker. He has tried his hands on different industries of the stock market. In order to keep up his and his own company’s value he thrived hard in industries like food packaging, real estate and gaming industry. Last year, shares of his publicly-traded Icahn Enterprises have soared by more than 50 percent and his investment fund returned 31 percent. In 2013, Icahn took over Twitter and in addition to that he had also acquired a large stake in Apple too. Now, he is the richest man on Wall Street. His net worth is $24.5 billion.