How Wealthy Are These Family Dynasties?

The Ziff Family

Fortune: $14.4B Business: Ziff Davis, IncIndustry: Publishing / InvestingFamous Member: Dirk Ziff

Recently, the Ziff family dynasty closed their hedge funds and shut down their American and London-based offices. But it doesn’t actually matter: the Ziff Brothers Investments firm will go down in history for its huge impact on Wall Street in New York.

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Dirk and Robert, the Ziff brothers, have since each gone their separate ways to pursue various interests. The family’s fortune goes back almost a century, way back to William Ziff Sr.’s publishing company.