Alwaleed vs Kerimov

Kingdom Holding Company and Polyus.

The differences

Forbes puts Suleiman Kerimov about $0.8B ahead of Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud.Forbes figures from 9 Oct 2026 and 9 Oct 2026.
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud: founded it. Suleiman Kerimov: built it up.
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud is about 11 years older than Suleiman Kerimov.
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud has signed the Giving Pledge; Suleiman Kerimov has not.
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud is from Saudi Arabia; Suleiman Kerimov is from Russia.

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Alwaleed

Kerimov

Net worth, Forbes: $24.9BForbes, 9 Oct 2026; $25.7BForbes, 9 Oct 2026
Net worth, Bloomberg: $26.3BBloomberg, 17 Oct 2026; $10.2BBloomberg, 15 Oct 2026
Forbes rank: No. 100Real-Time list, 9 Oct 2026; No. 93Real-Time list, 9 Oct 2026
Billionaire since: Not stated; 2006Earliest Forbes list in the cited sources: No. 72 on the 2006 World's Richest People with $7.1 billion; an earlier listing isn't ruled out

How it started: Founded itFounded Kingdom Holding in 1980 after graduating from Menlo College, with a modest stake from his father; his best-known early deal was a Citicorp stake bought in 1991; Built it upBought control of the former state oil trader Nafta Moskva in 1998, then built stakes in Gazprom, Sberbank, Uralkali and Polyus
Main source: Kingdom Holding stock, a personal SpaceX stake and Saudi propertyBloomberg's largest items: Kingdom Holding ($10.3 billion), SpaceX ($6.04 billion), Saudi property ($4.5 billion) and Rotana ($1.55 billion); Proceeds of investments in Polyus and other Russian assetsForbes lists gold as his source of wealth
Companies: Kingdom Holding CompanyKingdom Holding Company: Founder and chairman; Polyus, Nafta MoskvaPolyus: None; Nafta Moskva: Owner
Biggest stake: Kingdom Holding Company78% owned; PolyusStake not stated

Born: 7 Mar 1955; 12 Mar 1966Derbent, Dagestan, Russia
Country: Saudi ArabiaLives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; RussiaLives in Moscow, Russia
Education: Graduate degreeBS business administration, Menlo College (1979); master's in social science, Syracuse University's Maxwell School (1985); Graduate degreeMaster of economics, Dagestan State University
Parents: Son of Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz, a son of Saudi Arabia's founder who served as minister of communications and of finance, and Princess Mona El Solh, daughter of Lebanon's first prime minister; Not stated

Giving Pledge: Signed in 2016; Not a signer
Foundation: Alwaleed PhilanthropiesUmbrella for Alwaleed Philanthropies Global, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia; in 2015 he pledged his fortune to it; Not stated
Lifetime giving: $4BAlwaleed Philanthropies, 17 Oct 2026. '$4 Billion+ spent on social welfare' by Alwaleed Philanthropies over 39 years, as shown on its site; not a figure for his personal giving alone; Not stated

Role now: Chair of the boardFounder and chairman of Kingdom Holding Company; OwnerMember of Russia's Federation Council for Dagestan; owner of the Nafta Moscow group
Successor: None named; Talal Ibrahim AlMaiman is Kingdom Holding's CEONo other family member is listed among Kingdom Holding's executives; Not stated
Public office: None found; Member of the State Duma; Member of the Federation Council, representing Dagestanfrom 1999; 2008-
Legal record: 2018: Saudi Attorney GeneralReleased in January 2018 after more than two months' detention in a Saudi anti-corruption crackdown; a senior Saudi official said he reached a financial settlement with the attorney general; hours earlier he had told Reuters he expected to be cleared of wrongdoing.; 2018: US Treasury (OFAC); 2022: Council of the European Union; 2022: UK governmentDesignated on 6 April 2018 under Executive Order 13661 as an official of the Russian government; also listed under Executive Order 14024. Added to the EU sanctions list on 15 March 2022. Sanctioned by the UK in March 2022, per Forbes.