He founded the Luksic Group, becoming the richest person in Chile, the fourth in Latin America, and the 132nd in the world, with a net worth in 2005 of US$4.2 billion according to Forbes magazine.
[5] Luksic was born in Antofagasta, to a Bolivian mother, Elena Abaroa Córdova (grandchild of Bolivian War of the Pacific hero Eduardo Abaroa), and a Croatian immigrant father, Polikarp Lukšić Ljubetić, who had arrived in Chile from the Adriatic island of Brač in 1910 and had made a living in the nitrate industry.
[6][2][3] Antonio Andrónico Luksic Abaroa died of cancer on 18 August 2005, aged 78, in Santiago de Chile.
[7] As of October 2012 the Bloomberg Billionaires Index lists Iris Fontbona, who lives in Santiago[8] as the 33rd richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $19.7 billion.
[9] The Forbes 2016 lists Iris Fontbona Chile's richest person with a $13.8 billion mining assets fortune (or a $15.5 billion total fortune she shares with the rest of her immediate family), making her the fourth-richest in the region.