Aug
13
Tycoon’s Fortune Grows $2.4 Billion a Day as Shares Soar
ByChina Evergrande Group has blown past China Vanke Co. as the nation’s biggest builder by market value after a profit alert sent its shares soaring.
For billionaire Hui Ka Yan, the firm’s controlling shareholder, a 36 percent gain in share price in just four days last week meant his fortune swelled by an average of $2.4 billion a day, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. On Monday, Evergrande was valued at about HK$352 billion ($44.8 billion) versus around HK$288 billion for Vanke…