Taiwan's 5 Richest
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1 Tsai Hong-tu & family
Net worth: $8.5 billion
With family, inherited fortune from father Tsai Wan-lin, who died in 2004. Main holdings are Cathay Financial Holdings, which he chairs and whose subsidiaries include Cathay Life Insurance, and Cathay Real Estate, whose stock is up this year thanks to a recovery in Taiwan's property market.
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