Hedge Fund Managers’ Pay ROARED Back Last Year

By: EW News Desk Team   Date: 1 April 2010

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01 April 2010

In a startling comeback, top hedge fund managers rode the 2009 stock market rally to record gains, with the highest-paid 25 earning a collective $25.3 billion, beating the old 2007 high by a wide margin ...

In a startling comeback, top hedge fund managers rode the 2009 stock market rally to record gains, with the highest-paid 25 earning a collective $25.3 billion, beating the old 2007 high by a wide margin ...

The minimum individual payout on the list was $350 million in 2009, a sign of how richly compensated top hedge fund managers have remained despite public outrage over the pay packages at big banks and brokerage firms ...

This New York Times article not only "names names" but also includes pictures ... ;-) ....

The Lazarus-like recovery of the nation’s big banks did not benefit just the bankers —

it also created huge paydays for hedge fund managers, including a record $4 billion gain in 2009 for one bold investor who bet big on the financial sector....

Hedge funds — the elite, lightly regulated investment vehicles open to a restricted range of investors — enjoyed a winning streak during the buyout boom that preceded the financial crisis in 2008.

Then the bottom fell out of the industry, handing even top hedge funds double-digit percentage losses. In turn, the earnings of the top 25 fund managers in 2008 tumbled 50 percent.

At the time, some market experts questioned whether the industry could continue to charge hefty fees — a manager typically receives a substantial portion of the fund’s annual appreciation — for such uneven performance.

After all, hedge funds were supposed to protect investors against market volatility, not subject them to it.

 

 


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