- Tei-Fu Chen
$890 MILLION T
SOURCE: DIVERSIFIED
AGE. 68. MARRIED, 5 CHILDREN
Chen and his wife, Oi-Lin Chen, lead Sunrider, an herbal products supplier with more than 2,000
retail stores. The company bought a new office building in Jakarta in July 2015; it donated
$1.75 million for children’s exercise training in Malaysia in January 2016. Couple owns several
hotels, including “Sunworld”-branded ones in Beijing and Taipei. - Eugene Wu
$880 MILLION T
SOURCE: FINANCE
AGE: 71. MARRIED, 3 CHILDREN
Shares of Wu-led Shin Kong Financial, which
offers insurance and banking services, are
down in the past year. The family also controls
Shin Kong Textile, Shin Kong Synthetic Fiber,
among other diversified businesses.
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in Japan - Peter Shu
$960 MILLION T
SOURCE: ELECTRONICS
AGE: 62. MARRIED, 3 CHILDREN
Shu founded Transcend Information, which
makes computer memory products, including
digital music players and USB flash drives.
Transcend’s profits—and Shu’s fortune—shrank
in the past year amid slack global demand
for PCs and notebook computers. Shu, the
chairman, shares his fortune with family
including his brother C.C., who is CEO. - Wang Ren-sheng
$950 MILLION T
SOURCE: RETAIL
AGE: 81
A former elementary school teacher, mainland
native Wang made his early money manufacturing
Christmas tree lighting in Taiwan. He eventually
founded retailer Dennis Group in Henan Province
and has business interests on both sides of the
Taiwan Strait. - Hou Bo-ming
$920 MILLION 3
SOURCE: DIVERSIFIED
MARRIED, 3 CHILDREN
Hou holds stakes in companies affiliated with
the “Tainan Gang,” a group of businesses
and leaders that hail from southern Taiwan,
including Tainan Spinning, one of Taiwan’s
largest textile manufacturers. His family also
leads Universal Cement and owns shares in
Uni-President Enterprises, Taiwan’s largest
locally headquartered food and beverage
supplier. - Douglas Hsu
$910 MILLION T
SOURCE: DIVERSIFIED
AGE: 73. MARRIED, 3 CHILDREN
Despite Hsu’s diversification of his Far
Eastern Group’s business beyond textiles, his
estimated fortune fell this year amid slack
economic growth in Taiwan and overseas.
Among declining shares, shipper U-Ming
Marine Transport lost more than a third of its
value. Son Jeff, who is chief innovation officer,
is working to improve efficiency and seek new
business. - Cher Wang
& Wenchi Chen
$850 MILLION T
SOURCE: ELECTRONICS
AGE: 58, 60. MARRIED, 2 CHILDREN
Husband and wife’s fortune hasn’t recovered from
a peak of $8.8 billion in 2011, when together they
ranked No. 1 among nation’s richest. Shares in
mobile phone flagship HTC seem to have bottomed
out in first half of 2016 after company pushed into
the booming virtual-reality goggle business. Wang
also holds shares in Formosa Plastics, the company
cofounded by her deceased father, Y.C. Wang, and
in media businesses (see box, p. 74).
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