The Top 3 Stars in the news, based on Roger James Hamilton’s Wealth Dynamics System, continues with the  series highlighting each of the Top 3 newsmakers in each category.  After covering the Top 3 Supporters in the news, Roger turns his attention to the Top 3 Stars. This is not the same as simply hollywood stars or rock stars, but entrepreneurs who follow the Star strategy of building their brand rather than products to attract their fortune.

Oprah Winfrey  (USA) – Stars are finding that their traditional leverage channels are changing. Oprah Winfrey has rolled with the changes, shifting her focus from her Oprah Winfrey Show (which ended this year) to OWN - The Oprah Winfrey Network. This is the trend with many of the top Stars, who are extending their brand beyond the media which made them a household name. Oprah is now worth $2.7 billion, and is the richest self-made woman in the world.

Ashton Kutcher (USA) – A tireless self-promoter, Ashton Kutcher has leveraged his brand beyond his media celebrity to become a successful angel investor. He is pioneering a new genre of young stars who are no longer relying on the media for their paycheck. His self-promoted campaign to become the first twitter account with 1 million followers succeeded in giving his company, Katalyst Media, in the spotlight. He’s now an investor in tech start-ups Airbnb, Foursquare and Flip, and leverages his brand to attract extra attention to them. He has a net worth of over $140 million.

Al Gore (USA) – The US Political System is designed to favor Star profiles. Stars have reached the Presidency every year since Roosevelt (This is the opposite of China, that consistently puts Lord profiles in the top spot). What do Star politicians do when they leave politics? Al Gore has used his brand to continue to promote his ‘Inconvenient Truth’ mission of saving the environment. This is making him money as he goes. He heads climate change investments at famous VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is an Apple Board Director and Google Advisor, and has a net worth of over $100 million.

“As the world economy moves deeper into Winter Season, the smart Star profile entrepreneurs are diversifying and seeking to ride waves in new media and new ways to leverage their brand. The collapse of old media channels with accelerate as Stars migrate to new media, bringing their audiences with them.” – Roger James Hamilton

The Top 3 Supporters in the news, based on Roger James Hamilton’s Wealth Dynamics System, continues with the series highlighting each of the Top 3 news makers in each category. Like waves in the ocean, every peak is balanced by a trough. Of as the Lords build their wealth in the ‘winter’ of the global economy, it is the Supporters, on the other side of the square, who need to bide their time or reorganized themselves in the trough. Here are the Top 3 Supporters in the news. Not surprisingly, they are each in the news as parts of companies that are either winter profile or that find themselves in the winter season.

Eric Schmidt  (USA) – The CEO of Google for ten years, Schmidt finally stepped down this year to allow Larry Page, a Mechanic Profile, to prepare Google for the next big wave. Schmidt remains on as Executive Chairman, where he is spending much more time on compliance issues and answering to the Government. This is the fate of Supporter profiles when their company reaches this phase of business.

Meg Whitman (USA) – The previous CEO of eBay, brought in to build eBay into the world’s largest online auction platform, made several deal-making missteps, which led her to leave eBay in 2008. She then went on to spend over 10% of her $1.3 billion fortune on her bid to become Governor of California. Despite spending more than any other candidate, she still lost to Jerry Brown, a Star profile who simply shone brighter during the elections. She has again hit the news in September with her appointment as the new CEO of HP – a company that has gone into the depths of winter.

Howard Shultz (USA) – Shultz grew Starbucks into a global giant after taking it over from the founders, building a net worth of $1.1 billion. His book “Pour your heart into it” is a perfect leadership bible for Supporters. Since 2009, Starbucks has closed 900 stores in the US, and is now going through a period of consolidation, with more of a focus on global distribution deals to sell their coffee rather than new store openings.

“While we see high-profile Supporters in the USA taking on more of a lower profile as the Western World moves into winter, we will see more Supporter profile leaders in Asia step into the limelight as the top CEOs of the most profitable companies globally in the coming years.” – Roger James Hamilton

The Top 3 Deal Makers in the news, based on Roger James Hamilton’s Wealth Dynamics System, follow on within this series highlighting each of the Top 3 newsmakers in each category. We are seeing industries that have reached a saturation in their market increasingly turn to the Deal Makers to bring together old value to create something new, so we see this play out most prominently in the media industry, and in countries with emerging domestic markets, like India and China. Here are the Top 3.

Rupert Murdoch (USA) – Several years ago Roger Hamilton predicted that traditional print media would become increasingly sensationalist to try and retain readers, and when it fell, it would do so by going to far, creating news and scandal. Murdoch has been on the receiving end of that this year with the News International phone hacking scandal. Even so, he remains up in Forbes’ and Times’ list of the most influential people in the world.

Simon Cowell (UK) – A product of the shift in power of media to the Deal Makers, Cowell has built a reality TV platform with the likes of American Idol, the X-Factor and Britain’s Got Talent. Originally a deal maker for pop bands, he has used this platform to attract talent, and he then makes the money by signing the best talent to his agencies after the public vote them in. He is now worth over £200 million.

Anil Ambani (INDIA) – Reflecting the boom in consumer industries in India, Ambani has made it big in finance and media, recently doing a $825 million deal to bring Steven Spielberg’s studio to India. He is now the fourth richest man in India with $8.8 billion, behind Azim Premi, Laksmi Mittal and his brother, Mukesh Ambani.

“What we can expect to see in the coming years is a shift of the deal makers to the new industries that are moving from summer to autumn. That means expect to hear of venture capitalists making it big in China and India, and brand name deal makers behind deals in media, communications, and public offerings in emerging countries.” – Roger James Hamilton

Here is the next step around the Wealth Dynamics Profile Square with the Top 3 Traders in the News, based on Roger James Hamilton’s Wealth Dynamics System. Traders have driven the entire wealth of our markets – both up and down – over the last ten years. As the global cycle has shifted, and wealth in the Western World has moved towards the Accumulators who are accumulating their assets, the Traders are increasingly moving towards the emerging economies in the East.

Jim Rogers (Singapore) – Rogers is a Trader who is constantly in the news as he has continued to move as markets have changed. After making his fortune in the US, with George Soros in the Soros fund, Rogers first moved into commodities, and then moved to Asia. He has set up indexes in these areas that have allowed him to earn from the investment in his indexes. He recently said to a group of Oxford university students “The power is shifting again from the financial centers to the producers of real goods. The place to be is in commodities, raw materials, natural resources."

George Soros (USA) – Soros, who made his name making a billion dollars betting against Sterling, has recently closed down his hedge fund altogether, taking his $14.5 billion and managing it in his personal trust. He remains an outspoken critic of current government policy and is focusing on the global challenges of democracy with his philanthropy work.

Mikhail Fridman (Russia) – Fridman began trading commodities in Russia, and moved to energy trading and then entire processing businesses through his Alfa Capital. Like Soros, he has grown his interest in balance and democracy into politics. Today he is worth $15.1 billion, and has exited many of his holdings.

The shift in the global cycle can be seen by the actions of the leading profiles and how they are operating at any time. As Roger Hamilton says, the shift to the winter phase of business can be seen by not only the wealth of Accumulators but the defensive strategies of the top Traders.

“Waves have ups and downs, but all seas still have a level. Every peak has a trough. Seeing every market as a rolling wave allows us to see where we should be, and when, based on our profile.”
– Roger Hamilton

After last week’s Top 3 Mechanics in the News, here’s now the Top 3 Lords, based on Roger James Hamilton’s Wealth Dynamics System. As the global economy is in winter, it is the Lord Profiles who are shining through, creating cash flow from their assets and managing their risk carefully.

Sergey Brin (USA) – Sergey is co-founder of Google together with his Mechanic profile partner, Larry Page. Sergey is 38 years old and worth $20 billion. Constantly analyzing data and detail, he has created in Google a perfect example of a Lord business, where it doesn’t need to own the asset (content) because it controls the most effective access to the asset and charges every time.

Lakshmi Mittal (UK) – Originally from India, Lakshmi has become the richest man in England through his steel empire, making him a modern-day Carnegie. Like Sergey, he makes his money by finding efficiencies and then dominates the industry through economies of scale. Today he is worth $38 billion.

Gina Rinehart (Australia) – Another favourite industry for Lords is the mining industry. Gina controls mines in Western Australia and as the Global Economy has gone into winter season, China has stocked up on ore, making Gina the first female billionaire in Australia and the richest Australian with $2 billion in wealth.

Next week Roger Hamilton will cover the Top 3 Accumulators making the news today. In the same way that the most successful Lords are stepping into their flow as the markets move, the Accumulators have recently enjoyed their wave, rising to become the wealthiest in the world today.

Here’s a list of the top 3 Mechanics making waves in the world today, based on Roger James Hamilton’s Wealth Dynamics Profiling System. Follow them and their stories to see how Mechanics excel at taking a system and perfecting it, and how, as Roger Hamilton says, their tinkering with the system scales as they multiply the number of people using their system.

Larry Page (USA) – Larry is co-founder of Google, not even 40 yet and already worth $20 billion. Asked what Google’s mission was, he said “Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.” All the world’s information! That takes a system, and that’s what he’s been working on.

Michael Dell (USA) – Michael is worth $15 billion, and he has rebranding Dell Computers to simply ‘Dell’, so he can use the same system he created to assemble and deliver PCs at low cost to deliver all sorts of other electronic products.

Mark Zuckerberg (USA) –He is 27 years old and worth $14 billion. By next year, he will be worth a multiple of that as Facebook has its IPO potentially at over $100 billion valuation. By then, Facebook will also have over 1 billion members, which makes it the third largest nation in the world by population. The difference? Mark will know his citizens intimately and be able to communicate with them instantly in a way no other government can.

Roger Hamilton will be looking at all the different Wealth Dynamics Profiles and who is making the news in the coming months. Follow along to see what the top entrepreneurs in each profile are saying yes to, and no to.