Li Ka-shing
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Diversified
- Industry
- Diversified
- Residence
- Hong Kong
- Organization
- Senior Advisor at CK Hutchison Holdings
- Education
- High School (Drop Out)
- Marital Status
- Widowed
- Children
- 2
Assets
- Celsius Holdings10,028,000 shares @ --CELH-US
- cenovus energy - Common Stock231,194,000 shares @ --CVE-US
- CK Asset Holdings1,330,969,000 shares @ --1113-HK
- CK Hutchison1,164,904,000 shares @ --1-HK
- CK Infrastructure Holdings5,428,000 shares @ --1038-HK
- Husky Energy Inc.0 shares @ --HSE-CA
- Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings Ltd.53,605,000 shares @ --215-HK
- NexGen Energy, Ltd0 shares @ --NXE-CA
- Postal Savings Bank of China0 shares @ --1658-HK
- Zoom Video Communications10,641,000 shares @ --ZM-US
Biography
Nicknamed Superman, Li Ka-shing is revered as one of the most influential businessmen in Asia.
Li retired as chairman of CK Hutchison Holdings and CK Asset Holdings in 2018 but remains senior advisor.
His son Victor now heads the conglomerate, which has more than 300,000 employees and operates in more than 50 nations.
Li started Cheung Kong Plastics, named after the Yangtze River, in 1950 at age 21 with $6,500 in savings and loans from relatives.
His Li Ka Shing Foundation has donated more than $3.8 billion; over 80% has gone to Greater China.
About
Li says it took him five minutes in 2007 to decide to invest in Facebook, even though it barely had any revenues. He also invested in Siri and Spotify.
At age 12, Li fled China with his family. Two years later his father, who had been a primary school principal in China but then worked at a watch factory, died.
At the announcement of his retirement, Li joked that he'd been "working for a long time, too long."