Malaysia's economic growth of 5. 2 per cent in 2025, the appreciation of lingit, combined with the hot ipo market and the addition of 60 new listed companies throughout the year, contributed to a significant increase of almost 30 per cent in the total wealth of malaysian wealthy people, to $116 billion。
Original title: 2026 forbes malaysian monopoly: lim jitt is strong and the ipo market fire is helping to boost the wealth of the rich
The wealth of malaysia's richest, business legend guo (102 years) grew by 19 per cent to $13. 6 billion. The guo group covers a wide range of industries such as agribusiness, hotels and data centres。
For the first time, he and his brothers and sisters were second on the list and the wealthiest in absolute terms this year, rising by 80 per cent to $9. 7 billion. Their aluminumEtal, the largest complex of aluminum smelting firms in south-east asia, was boosted by a sharp increase in aluminium prices, which increased by 73 per cent each year。
Lee yoo-jo and lee yoon-sung brothers were $8. 5 billion, up three to three. Their core assets are the palm oil enterprise ioi group, but they also build a large portfolio of properties and plan to issue real estate investment trust funds (reit) in malaysia and singapore to release asset values。
This year's wealth grew by 41 winners, including 99 sped mart retail holdings founder and ceo li li lianghua, and the property tycoon xie fu. The wealth of lee lianghua nearly doubled to $6. 7 billion, with 259 new shops added to its chain of convenience stores in 2025, bringing the total number of stores nationwide to over 3,000. Xiefu's annual wealth surged by 76 per cent to $5. 3 billion, and sunway group was listed in march this year as sunway healthcare, raising $732 million, the largest ipo in almost a decade。
Two new winners, the co-founder and managing director of the eco-shop marketing, first ranked 18th out of $1. 5 billion. Advantage was listed in may 2025 and currently has over 400 businesses in malaysia。
The other is the 42nd zhang family, with $655 million, who is the heir to the late chinese businessman zhang xiaoqing. Zhang xiaoqing died in november 2025 and was 90 years old, with palm oil, real estate and the media covered by the industry。
The only return list is the co-founder of vitrox, a manufacturer of semiconductor and electronic sealed automated visual detection equipment. Driven by the surge in demand for artificial intelligence-related products, corporate equity prices have increased significantly by 84 per cent over the past year. This year the threshold rose from $335 million last year to $422 million。
The following is the list of malaysian rich people in 2026:
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The list is based on equity and financial information obtained from households and individuals, stock exchanges, annual reports, analysts, government agencies and other sources. The figures for the rich are based on stock prices and exchange rates at the time of closing on 27 march 2026 and may differ from those for real-time wealthy people in forbes. Com. The valuation of non-listed companies was derived by reference to similar listed companies. The list of personal and family wealth, including wealth shared with relatives, is likely to differ from the figure of 2026 forbs, the billionaire global list of personal wealth, as of 27 february. The list may also include foreign nationals who have business, residence or other links with malaysia, or citizens who do not reside in malaysia but have significant business or other relations with that country. The editorial team reserves the right to modify or delete any information based on new information。
JoReports by nathan burgos, gloria haraito, anis shakira mohd muslimin, yessar rosandar, jessica tan。
