BRW Rich 200, 2012

This article is about the BRW Rich List published in 2012. For general information about the list, see Financial Review Rich List.

The BRW Rich 200, 2012 is the 29th annual survey of the wealthiest people resident in Australia, published in hardcopy and online formats in the BRW magazine on 24 May 2012.^[1]

In the 2012 list, the net worth of the wealthiest individual, Gina Rinehart, was A$29.17 billion.

The BRW Rich Families List was published annually since 2008. In the 2012 list, the Smorgon family headed the list with estimated wealth of A$2.63 billion.^[2] The Smorgon families headed the families list in every year of its publication. The families list was last published in 2015.^[3]

List of individuals

2012[1]		Name	Citizenship	Source of wealth	2011[4]
Rank	Net worth A$ bn				Rank	Net worth A$ bn
1	29.17	Gina Rinehart	Australia	Hancock Prospecting; investment	1	10.31
2	7.40	Ivan Glasenberg	Australia[5]  South Africa  Switzerland[6]	Glencore commodities trading	2	8.80
3	6.47	Frank Lowy AC	Australia	Westfield; property (shopping centres)	6	4.98
4	5.89	Andrew Forrest	Australia	Fortescue Metals Group	3	6.18
5	5.45	Anthony Pratt	Australia	Visy Industries; Pratt Industries	4	5.18
6	5.21	James Packer	Australia	Crown Resorts; Consolidated Media Holdings	8	4.16
7	4.85	Harry Triguboff AO	Australia	Meriton Apartments	7	4.30
8	3.85	Clive Palmer	Australia	Mineralogy and other mining interests; hospitality	5	5.05
9			Australia
10	3.35	John Gandel AO	Australia	Property (shopping centres)	9	3.45

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List of families

2012[2]		Name	Citizenship	Source of wealth	2011[4]
Rank	Net worth A$ bn				Rank	Net worth A$ bn
1	2.63	Smorgon family	Australia	Investment	1	2.69
2	2.20	Liberman family	Australia	Investment	2	2.23
3	2.15	Besen family	Australia	Property; retail	3	2.08
n/a	2.01	Buckeridge family	Australia	Manufacturing (building materials); construction	n/a	2.60
5	1.94	Myer family	Australia	Retail; property; investment	4	2.01
6	1.75	Roberts family	Australia	Investment; property	6	1.35
7	1.44	Wilson family	Australia	Retail (plumbing)	n/a	not listed
8	1.29	Talbot family	Australia	Resources	5	1.42
9			Australia
10	1.09	Salteri family	Australia	Tenix; infrastructure investment (roads and services)	7	1.18

Legend
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See also

• Financial Review Rich List
• Forbes Asia list of Australians by net worth