{"id":60151,"date":"2015-08-28T21:43:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T13:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=60151"},"modified":"2015-08-28T21:44:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T13:44:26","slug":"forbes-report-sy-remains-richest-filipino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/08\/28\/forbes-report-sy-remains-richest-filipino\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes report: Sy remains richest Filipino"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_60153\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60153\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/320x486.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60153\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/320x486.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Sy, whose firm owns SM Supermalls, has been named as the richest Filipino for the past eight years. (Photo from Forbes)\" width=\"320\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/320x486.jpg 320w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/320x486-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Sy, whose firm owns SM Supermalls, has been named as the richest Filipino for the past eight years. (Photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/henry-sy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Shopping mall tycoon Henry Sy, whose firm owns SM Supermalls, has been named as the richest Filipino for the past eight years, with his net worth this year amounting to $14.4 billion, higher from last year\u2019s $12.7 billion \u2013 up by &amp;1.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Sy topped Forbes Philippines\u2019 list of the 50 richest persons in the country anew.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe country\u2019s richest man is even richer as the value of his publicly traded conglomerates, SM Investments and SM Prime Holdings, have increased by 17 percent and 20 percent, respectively over the past year,\u201d Forbes magazine\u2019s report read.<\/p>\n<p>Following Sy and rounding out\u00a0 the top five of the list were other business leaders John Gokongwei Jr. with a net worth of $5.5 billion, Andrew Tan with $4.5 billion, Lucio Tan with $4.3 billion and Enrique Razon Jr. with $4.1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Completing the top 10 were George Ty of Metrobank Group, Aboitiz family of Aboitiz Equity Ventures, Jaime Zobel de Ayala of Ayala Group, David Consunji of DMCI Holdings and Tony Tan Caktiong of Jollibee Foods.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes also acknowledged how the Philippines\u2019 economy continuously grew in the previous years.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\u201cThe Philippines is seeing a boost in domestic wealth, even as its resource industries suffer from the same market drag hitting the sector throughout the region,\u201d the report continued.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Shopping mall tycoon Henry Sy, whose firm owns SM Supermalls, has been named as the richest Filipino for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":60153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-60151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}