Hart retains top spot in NBR Rich List, followed by newcomer Thiel

Hart retains top spot in NBR Rich List, followed by newcomer Thiel
Rebecca Howard
By Rebecca Howard July 24 (BusinessDesk) - Graeme Hart, New Zealand's richest man, kept the top spot in this year's National Business Review Rich List while San Francisco-based billionaire investor Peter Thiel  - granted citizenship in 2011 - was in second place and was one of the newcomers who helped push the total value of the list up 10 percent to just over $80 billion. Packaging magnate Hart is worth $7.5 billion, according to the annual list, down from $9 billion in 2015 but up from last year's $7.0 billion. Thiel - whose New Zealand...