Net Worth: $1.9 B
Age: 54
Source: Money Management
Industries: Finance & Investments
Bruce Flatt is one of the biggest and best investors you’ve likely never heard of. Flatt runs Brookfield Asset Management, the $540 billion (assets) alternative manager with real estate, infrastructure and private equity operations. A Winnipeg native, he joined an accounting firm out of college, then took a job at Canadian conglomerate Brascan, which soon nearly collapsed. He helped revive Brascan through a series of savvy real estate deals and became CEO in 2002, refashioning the firm into Brookfield Asset Management. His winning deals include buying Olympia & York in 1996 and London’s Canary Wharf in 2015, and recapitalizing General Growth Properties in 2010.