While their net worth went up from $5.1 billion last year to $6.13 billion, the Zobel family didn’t see a rise in the rankings this year. From being the 37th richest in 2016, the family behind Ayala Corporation landed on the 43rd spot this year.<\/p>\n Jaime Zobel de Ayala, <\/em>Chairman<\/em> and CEO of Ayala Corporation \/IMAGE Eisenhower Fellowships website<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Also read: The Empire that Started it All: The Ayala Success Story<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n India’s Ambani family, which controls Indian telecom, power, and finance conglomerate Reliance Group, topped the list with a net worth of $44.8 billion.<\/p>\n The Korean clan behind Samsung Electronics, the Lee family went down to being the 2nd richest family in Asia with a net worth of $40.8 billion.<\/p>\n Here’s the list of Forbes’ ten richest families in Asia along with their net worth:<\/p>\n 1. Ambani family, India, $44.8 billion Sources: Forbes website<\/a>, ABS-CBN News<\/a>, Inquirer.net<\/a>, PhilStar<\/a> Two Filipino families once again claim their spots in the Asia’s Richest Families 2017 list by Forbes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1137,4459,2857,2265,4461,4460,4458],"class_list":["post-23117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-ayala","tag-ayala-corporation","tag-henry-sy","tag-jaime-zobel-de-ayala","tag-sm-group","tag-sm-investments","tag-sy"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/11\/page-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23117"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23129,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23117\/revisions\/23129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/11\/Tatang.jpg\")
Henry Sy, Sr., founder of SM Group and Chairman Emeritus of SM Investments Corp. \/IMAGE SM Prime website<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/11\/373694380722907041-744x1128.one-half.jpg\")
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\n2. Lee family , South Korea, $40.8 billion
\n3. Kwok family, Hong Kong, $40.4 billion
\n4. Chearavanont family, Thailand, $36.6 billion
\n5. R. Budi & Michael Hartono, Indonesia, $32 billion
\n6. Lee (Shau Kee) family, $29 billion
\n7. Kwek family, Malaysia, $23.3 billion
\n8. Cheng family, Hong Kong, $22.5 billion
\n9. Sy family, Philippines, $20.1 billion
\n10. Chirathivat family, Thailand, $19.3 billion<\/p>\n
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\nImages grabbed from: SM Prime Website<\/a>, Eisenhower Fellowships website<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"