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Alexander Forbes Group Holdings, commonly referred to as Alexforbes is a diversified financial services organisation. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The company is headquartered in Johannesburg , South Africa , with a presence in two other countries on the African continent : Namibia and Botswana and in the Channel Islands through an offshore Jersey operation.
Alexander Caedmon Karp (born October 2, 1967) is an American billionaire businessman, and the co-founder and CEO of the software firm Palantir Technologies. [2] As of February 12, 2025, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$9.9 billion, ranking him 262nd on their list of the world's billionaires .
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Born in 1743, John Forbes set sail to India in 1764 on board the ship Asia as a purser on the East India Company's service. After three years as a 'free mariner' and later 'free merchant', he established a business to trade Indian cotton. The company later expanded into ship brokerage, ship building and banking. [2]
The origins of the firm go back to 1893. Alexander Fletcher Ferguson (A. F. Ferguson), a chartered accountant from Scotland, came to Bombay in 1889 as chief accountant for the merchant firm Ritchie Stewart & Co., (later Forbes Forbes Campbell & Co. (Private) Limited). In 1893, he began his practice and was the first British chartered accountant ...
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In May 2013, the Network 18 owned First Post was merged with Forbes India. Shortly thereafter, the four top editorial heads who had led the growth of Forbes India, including its editor-in-chief Indrajit Gupta, were dismissed under surprisingly humiliating conditions. [3] The event led to considerable media speculation. [4]
The Forbes family is one of the components of the Boston Brahmins—a wealthy extended American family long prominent in Boston, Massachusetts.The family's fortune originates from trading opium and tea between North America and China in the 19th century plus other investments in the same period.