TAIWAN’S 50 RICHEST
FORBES ASIA
- Hsu Chen
$1.9 BILLION
SOURCE: FOOD
AGE: 64. MARRIED, 1 CHILD
Family’s Hsu Fu Chi, founded in 1992, is one of the
top makers of confectionery in China. The Hsus sold
a 60% stake to Nestlé in 2011 for $1.7 billion but held
on to rest. The candy giant continues to expand
Hsu Fu Chi’s lines of candies, cakes and cookies in
pursuit of No. 1 spot in China held by rival Mars. - Luo Jye
$3.8 BILLION
SOURCE: TIRES
AGE: 90. MARRIED, 4 CHILDREN
Only returning member of top 10 whose
fortune didn’t drop. Luo founded Cheng Shin
Rubber in 1967 as a tire supplier to Taiwan’s
then expanding bicycle industry. Today CST,
run by his son Lo Tsai-Jen, is the world’s
largest maker of bicycle tires. It also makes
tires and tubes for motorcycles, all-terrain
vehicles, cars, forklifts and lawn and garden
equipment. - Barry Lam
$3.5 BILLION
SOURCE: ELECTRONICS
AGE: 67. MARRIED, 2 CHILDREN
Chairman of Quanta Computer, one of
world’s largest manufacturers of notebook
computers, saw his fortune fall by $400 million.
An improved outlook for cloud-computing
equipment and a boost from Apple watches,
of which it is a supplier, offer hope. Born in
Shanghai, Lam moved with his family to Hong
Kong after China’s revolution in 1949. - Samuel Yin
$2.9 BILLION
SOURCE: DIVERSIFIED
AGE: 65. MARRIED
Yin suffered one of the worst stretches of his
career in the past 12 months. Shares in flagship
members of his Ruentex Group of companies—
Ruentex Industries and Ruentex Development—fell
amid slack growth in Taiwan. Biotech investments
such as Taimed performed relatively well.
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$2 BILLION
SOURCE: FINANCE
MARRIED, 1 CHILD
Rebel finds peace: T.Y. left Cathay Financial
Holding, the company run by his billionaire brother
Hong-tu (No. 6) to strike out on his own in 2010.
These days he makes real estate investments
through Homax Equity.
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one Monet - Pierre Chen
$1.95 BILLION WX
SOURCE: ART, ELECTRONICS
AGE: 58. 3 CHILDREN
Taiwan’s leading art collector picked up Andy
Warhol’s “Mao” (1972) and Gerhard Richter’s
“Abstraktes Bild” (1992) this past year. An
engineer early in his career, he made his first
fortune creating electronics components maker
Yageo.
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$3.6 BILLION T
SOURCE: SEMICONDUCTORS
AGE: 72, 69.
Jason is chairman and Richard vice chairman of ASE, world’s largest independent semiconductor-
processing company, which they cofounded in 1984. Firm announced in June plans to merge
with Siliconware Precision, world’s No. 3 chip-packaging firm. Born in Shanghai, brothers came to
Taiwan after 1949 revolution. Family made early fortune in real estate and still controls real estate
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