19 Connecticut residents make Forbes list of richest billionaires

Steve Cohen may have spent $322.6 million on a baseball team that didn’t make the playoffs in 2025, but he’s still the richest person in Connecticut.

That’s according to Forbes’ 40th annual World’s Billionaires list ranking the world’s richest people for 2026, which was released Wednesday. Cohen topped the list with an estimated net worth of $23 billion, up $1.7 billion from 2025.

In total, there are 19 Connecticut billionaires, including hedge fund titan and New York Mets owner Cohen, finance tycoon Ray Dalio and former WWE CEO Vince McMahon. Thirteen of those billionaires reside in Greenwich, according to Forbes, and all but three live in Fairfield County on the state’s “Gold Coast.”

Connecticut’s richest residents have made their money in everything from hedge funds to logistics to entertainment, though most are financiers of some stripe, including three who all co-founded the same investment firm.

Worldwide, the number of billionaires has risen over the last year, with 3,428 across the globe, including 989 in the United States, according to Forbes. Together, the 2026 class is worth a total of $20.1 trillion, up $4 trillion from 2025. The publication used fortune totals as of March 1 to make the list.

At the top of the list is Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and X, whose estimated net worth has more than doubled in the last year to $839 billion. The next four spots went to the Google duo of Larry Page ($257 billion) and Sergey Brin ($237 billion), Amazon’s Jeff Bezos ($224 billion) and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg ($222 billion). 

In Connecticut, the 2026 list returns all but one of the 17 members of last year’s ranking, and adds three new billionaires to the state’s tally: John Liew and David Kabiller of Greenwich, and Adam Norwitt of Ridgefield. Financier Todd Boehly, while still a multibillionaire, moved from Greenwich to Miami, Fla. in the past year.

Here are the Connecticut billionaires who made the 2026 list, ranked by estimated net worth. 

111th on the worldwide list of American billionaires is Greenwich’s Cohen, who has a net worth of $23 billion, according to Forbes. Cohen currently oversees the Stamford-based hedge fund Point72 Asset Management, and is the (mostly) free-spending owner of the Mets.

Before founding Point72 in 2014, Cohen oversaw the successful hedge fund SAC Capital, which was shut down after the firm pleaded guilty to insider trading charges and Cohen was forced to pay $1.8 billion in penalties in 2013.

Rising fast, Greenwich’s Brad Jacobs has an estimated net worth of $17.1 billion, placing him 166th on Forbes’s list. Jacobs, the author of “How to Make a Few More Billion Dollars,” has more than doubled his net worth since 2024, when it sat at $8 billion.

Jacobs, a trucking magnate, oversaw the Greenwich-based logistics company XPO until he stepped down at the end of 2025, and got his start in the rural trash hauling business in the 1990s.

Another Greenwich billionaire is Dalio, who was jumped by Jacobs but still has a net worth of $15.4 billion, just inside the top-200 at 188. Dalio founded the Westport-based Bridgewater Associates, known for its demanding and sometimes “toxic” work environment, which now manages $92 billion as the largest hedge fund in the world.

As recently as 2022, Dalio was the richest man in the state with a net worth of $22 billion, but his fortune has decreased in recent years after giving up control of his firm. 

The first non-Greenwich billionaire on the list, Andres Halvorsen of Darien, has an estimated net worth of $8 billion. Halvorsen, who is a citizen of Norway, runs the Stamford-based hedge fund Viking Global Investors.

Karen Pritzker is the richest woman in Connecticut and the richest person in the state to live outside Fairfield County, residing in Branford. With an estimated net worth of $7.2 billion, she is one of 13 billionaire heirs to the Pritzker fortune, financed by the Hyatt hotel chain. Other notable members of the family include Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. 

Clifford Asness, another Greenwich resident, has been a prominent investor for decades and is a co-founder of the money management firm AQR Capital Management, which is headquartered in Greenwich. His net worth of $6.3 billion has risen dramatically over the last year in Forbes’s estimation, more than doubling from $2.9 billion.

Alex Behring is a Greenwich resident and Brazilian citizen with an estimated net worth of $5.8 billion. He is the co-founder and managing partner of the investment firm 3G Capital and the co-chairman of Restaurant Brands International, the parent company of Burger King and Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons. 

A Darien native, Mandel and his $5 billion net worth now reside in Greenwich. He made his billions as the founder of the hedge fund Lone Pine Capital, and now is a prominent donor to nonprofit Teach for America and Democratic politicians.

Perhaps the most famous person on this list is Greenwich’s Vince McMahon, whose current net worth is $3.5 billion. McMahon is the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), which he bought from his father in the 1980s. He merged the company with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) to form TKO Holdings in 2023. McMahon stepped down as executive chairman of TKO in 2024 amid sexual assault, misconduct and trafficking allegations, which he’s denied.

Last month, CT Insider obtained police video showing McMahon crashing his Bentley while speeding upwards of 100 miles per hour on the Merritt Parkway last summer.

A resident of East Lyme, William Stone made his $3.3 billion fortune from his financial-software firm SS&C Technologies, which is based in Windsor and is a major owner and operator of data centers.

Alexandra Daitch is the first of two heiresses of Cargill, the largest food company in the world, to make this list. An Old Lyme resident, she has a net worth of $2.6 billion, thanks largely to the 3% stake in Cargill she inherited from her late father, W. Duncan MacMillan.

Daitch is the great-great-granddaughter of company founder W.W. Cargill, who started the business (which did $154 billion in 2025 sales) as a single grain warehouse in Iowa in 1865.

Much of what is true for Daitch is true for Lucy Stizer, her sister and the other billionaire Cargill heiress residing in Connecticut. Stitzer also inherited a 3% stake in the company from MacMillan, and she is also worth $2.6 billlion.

But unlike Daitch, Stizer is a Greenwich resident, and she chairs Waycrosse, the investment company of the Cargill and MacMillan families.

Mario Gabelli, a Greenwich resident worth $2.2 billion, is the co-founder and chairman of the mutual fund and investment firm Gamco. He is also a major donor to higher education institutions.

Doug Ostrover, a Greenwich resident, is a co-founder and co-CEO of investment firm Blue Owl. His net worth of $2.2 billion is one of only two on this list to decrease from 2025, when he was just shy of $3 billion. 

The first new name on this list, John Liew, has an estimated net worth of $2.1 billion. He is, along with Asness, a co-founder of AQR Capital Management and is a Greenwich resident. 

Another new face on the list is David Kabiller, with a net worth of $2 billion. Along with Asness and Liew, he is the third billionaire co-founder of AQR Capital Management, residing in Greenwich.

Igor Tulchinsky, a Belarus native and Greenwich resident, made his $1.7 billion fortune as the founder and CEO of WorldQuant, a quantitative investment firm.

The last new member of Connecticut’s billionaire class is Adam Norwitt of Ridgefield. He has built much of his $1.4 billion fortune as the president and CEO of Wallingford-based Amphenol, one of the world’s largest electronic manufacturers.

Rounding out the list is Michael Rees of New Canaan, with a net worth of $1.2 billion. Along with Ostrover, he is co-founder and co-CEO of investment firm Blue Owl, and he is the only other person on the list to see his net worth decrease, down from roughly $2 billion in 2025.

This story contains previous reporting from former staff writer Abby Weiss.

Correction: This story has been updated to reflect that Brad Jacobs stepped down from his position of chairman at XPO at the end of 2025.