Richard Li

Net worth over time

Biography

• Richard Li is a son of Hong Kong's wealthiest billionaire Li Ka-shing. He is the chairman of Asia-based investment company Pacific Century Group, which has interests in finance, technology and property.
• Li also established a communications and media empire with PCCW, a Hong Kong-based company which controls the city's largest mobile phone operator HKT.
• Pacific Century owns a majority stake in life insurance company FWD, which operates in ten markets across Asia, including Hong Kong and Singapore. FWD went public in Hong Kong in 2025.
• Li has been building up his portfolio of tech investments, which include a range of Asia-based companies such as insurtech firm bolttech and fintech group MoneyHero.
• In 2025, a unit of U.S.-listed insurance and finance company MetLife acquired PineBridge Investments, an asset manager majority-owned by Li, for $1.2 billion enterprise value.
• Li started Star TV in 1991 with $110 million he received from his father; he sold the company, which had a viewership in the tens of millions, to Rupert Murdoch.
• During his studies at Stanford, Li worked as a cashier at McDonald's and as a caddy at a golf course. He dropped out of university to start his own business.

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