Abigail Johnson, the fourth richest woman in America, has worked for Fidelity Investments since 1988.
She was once Russia's richest woman, but has sold her construction companies and has left the country.
Last year FORBES said she was on her way to becoming the richest woman in the world.
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Rosalia Mera, co-founder of Inditex with ex-husband Amancio Ortega, remains Spain's richest woman.
In spite of being the richest woman in her country, Camargo stayed out of the limelight and little is known about her.
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The Bettencourt scandal has fascinated France since questions about the finances of France's richest woman emerged in 2011 amid a family feud.
The Bettencourt scandal has fascinated France since questions about the finances of France's richest woman emerged last year amid a family feud.
French ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy has been placed under formal investigation over claims his 2007 election campaign received illegal donations from France's richest woman.
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The world's richest woman golfer played in ten tournaments over the past 12 months and missed the cut or withdrew from half of the events.
Wu Yajun leads major real estate developer Longfor Properties and was once China's richest woman, but her divorce last year knocked her from the top spot.
Sixteen executives, including Europe's richest woman, the L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, offered in an open letter to pay a "special contribution" in a spirit of "solidarity".
Mikhail Gutseriev's BIN Group has been buying up real estate, including the famous Hotel National in Moscow, which he purchased last year from Russia's richest woman, Elena Baturina.
But when it fell to eighty-nine dollars, last September, not only was Rinehart suddenly no longer the richest woman in the world but reports circulated that Roy Hill workers were being laid off and contracts were being deferred.
According to BRW, a weekly business magazine, Gina Rinehart became the richest woman in Australia in 2010, the richest person in Australia in 2011, and the richest woman in the world in 2012, with an estimated net worth of nearly thirty billion dollars.
This year's seven dropouts include India's richest self-made woman, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw.
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Aside from being the only woman on our list of the richest Southeast Asians, she is different also for being a pure entrepreneur in a group of mostly older established tycoons.
It is the first time the rich list has been headed by a woman, and she has become the richest ever Australian.
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