Asia’s resilient rich

Asia’s rich are proving remarkably resistant to the slowdown in global economic growth, as evidenced by another bumper year for dividends during 2011, as measured by our annual survey of Asia’s richest families. See the full list here.

Once again, the total dividend payout for the 100 families on our Rich List exceeded $10 billion, with Li Ka-shing and his family paying themselves more than $1 billion after another solid year from their three biggest holdings Hutchison Whampoa, Husky Energy and Cheung Kong. And the Li family remains a good bet for next year as the income from their latest acquisition, Northumbria Water in the UK, starts to...