Move over Jack Ma, Asia has a new richest man. Mukesh Ambani, the 61-year-old force behind Reliance Industries Ltd., the oil-to-telecom behemoth, has eclipsed the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. founder — at least for now. It’s the latest landmark for the Indian businessman who constructed himself a 27-story home in Mumbai having lifted his father’s textile business to unimaginable heights.

1. How much is Ambani worth?

Ambani’s fortune has grown to $44.3 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index. His wealth derives mainly from Reliance Industries, India’s second-biggest company with a market capitalization of more than $100 billion. Ambani is chairman and managing director and, together with his family, controls more than 43 percent. He also receives dividends, a salary and fees as a director, as well as owning a stake in Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Ltd. and holding some valuable private investments, including a gas pipeline.

2. How did Mukesh Ambani get his break?

From his father. Dhirubhai Ambani began his career as a clerk before venturing out on his own to trade spices and yarn. He then set up Reliance Industries to manufacture fabrics and textiles. Mukesh was born 10 years after India’s independence from the British in 1947 and trained as a chemical engineer before joining the Reliance board as a 20-year-old, along with his younger brother Anil. Mukesh Ambani earned a reputation for executing large-scale projects and played a crucial role in taking the company into refining and petrochemicals in the 1990s and then telecom and retail in the 2000s. He was instrumental in establishing Reliance’s first major manufacturing project at Patalganga followed by the world’s largest refining complex at Jamnagar on India’s west coast.

3. Why did the brothers fall out?

When Dhirubhai Ambani died in 2002, he didn’t leave a will. Mukesh and Anil, now 59, fell into a dispute that lasted for more than a decade. In a settlement brokered by their mother in 2005, the brothers split the family business. Mukesh retained control over refining, petrochemicals, oil and gas and textiles operations. Anil took the construction, telecommunications, asset management, entertainment and power generation businesses. The siblings’ financial paths soon began to diverge.

亚洲诞生了一位资产超过马云的新首富。至少现在，61岁的穆克什·安巴尼比阿里巴巴集团的创始人更加富有。他执掌的信实工业集团（Reliance Industries Ltd.）是一家涉足石油、电信等多个行业的巨头。这位印度企业家让继承自父亲的纺织工厂发展到了难以想象的高度，他在孟买给自己建了一座27层的居所，而成为亚洲新首富则是他达到的最新里程碑。

1. 安巴尼的资产有多少？

彭博亿万富翁指数（Bloomberg Billionaires Index）显示，安巴尼的资产已经增至443亿美元。他的财富主要来源于印度第二大公司、市值超过1,000亿美元的信实工业集团。安巴尼是该集团的董事长和总经理，他和家人拥有集团超过43%的股份。作为董事，安巴尼还可以得到分红、薪水和董事费。他还拥有信实工业基础设施有限公司（Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Ltd. ）的股票，以及一些价值不菲的私人投资项目，包括一条天然气输气管道。

2. 穆克什·安巴尼是如何发家的？

他继承了父亲的产业。他父亲迪鲁拜·安巴尼之前是个小职员，后来自己创业开始做香料和纱线贸易。随后，他建立了信实工业，生产纤维面料和纺织品。1947年，印度从英国手中独立出来，十年后穆克什出生。穆克什接受了化学工程师的培训，20岁时和弟弟阿尼尔一起进入公司董事会。他负责了许多项目，在20世纪90年代让公司进军炼油和石油化工产品领域，以及21世纪初让公司进军通讯和零售行业上起到了重要作用，声誉也日渐高涨。他力助信实集团在帕塔尔甘加（Patalganga）落地了第一个大型制造业项目，随后又在印度西海岸的占姆纳格（Jamnagar）建立了全球最大的炼油设施。

3. 为什么安巴尼兄弟后来反目？

迪鲁拜·安巴尼于2002年逝世时没有留下遗嘱。穆克什·安巴尼和现年59岁的阿尼尔产生了争端。兄弟俩争执了十余年，直到2005年通过母亲的调停，最终拆分了家族的产业。穆克什继续掌管炼油、石油化工、石油、天然气和纺织业务，而阿尼尔则负责建筑、通讯、资产管理、娱乐和发电业务。兄弟俩很快就走向了不同的金融之路。