{"id":85002,"date":"2023-06-12T00:09:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T04:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=85002"},"modified":"2023-06-11T22:40:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T02:40:05","slug":"george-soros-hands-control-of-his-25-billion-empire-to-his-son-alex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2023\/george-soros-hands-control-of-his-25-billion-empire-to-his-son-alex.html","title":{"rendered":"George Soros hands control of his $25 billion empire to his son Alex"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Philanthropist billionaire George Soros <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/george-soros-heir-son-alexander-soros-e3c4ca13?mod=hp_lead_pos8\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed that he is handing control of his $25 billion empire<\/a> to his son Alex. Soros, 92, has a net worth of $6.7 billion, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/george-soros\/?sh=3b4b14cc2024\" target=\"_blank\">according to Forbes<\/a>, and is the one of the top 400 richest people in the world. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/capitalbusiness\/billionaire-financier-george-soros-shifts-18-billion-to-his-charitable-foundation\/2017\/10\/17\/d62d69b8-b374-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">In 2017, he shifted $18 billion<\/a> from his family office to his Open Society Foundations \u2014 a group of charities that works in more than 100 countries \u2014 which Alex was named chair of in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/06\/12\/billionaire-george-soros-confirms-succession-wsj-interview.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Philanthropist billionaire George Soros confirmed that he is handing control of his $25 billion empire to his son Alex. Soros, 92, has a net worth of $6.7 billion, according to Forbes, and is the one of the top 400 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85003,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85002\/revisions\/85003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}