Top Winners and Losers of Billionaire Race
#4 Carl Icahn
The chairman of Icahn Enterprises, Carl Icahn, has a single day gain of $104.69 million, the Forbes Magazine says. The net worth of his company is $20.7 billion as of March 2012.
Icahn began his career on Wall Street in 1961. In 1968, he formed Icahn & Co., a securities firm that focused on risk arbitrage and option trading. In 1978, he began taking substantial or controlling positions in various corporations including Texaco, Philips Petroleum, Western Union, Dan River, American Can, Marvel Comics, Revlon, Fairmont Hotels, Blockbuster, Time Warner, Motorola and many others.
#5 Mikhail Prokhorov
According to Forbes Magazine’s statistics, Mikhail Prokhorov, the owner of New Jersey Nets has $88.82 million gain per single day as of March 2012 and the net turnover of the company is $13.2 billion.
Mikhail Dmitrievitch Prokhorov is a Russian billionaire, who is the owner of the American basketball team, the Brooklyn Nets. He has also run Norilsk Nickel. In his tenure the company became world’s largest producer of nickel and palladium.
He is the former chairman of Polyus Gold, Russia's largest gold producer, and former President of ONEXIM Group and he resigned both the posts when he entered politics in June 2011. In June 2012 he declared the establishment of new political party “Party of Civic Platform”.
In 2012, he is the seventh richest man in Russia and the 57th richest man in the world according to Forbes.
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