[lbo-talk] nice year for some hedge fund dudes

Mark Bennett bennett.mab at gmail.com
Wed Mar 25 10:12:32 PDT 2009


Yeah, but in 2007 it took $360 million to crack to the top 25; last year a mere $75 million. Gee, times are tough all over.

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


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> http://www.iimagazine.com/Alpha/Articles/2165638/TODAY/The_25_Highest-Earning_Hedge_Fund_Managers.html
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> The 25 Highest-Earning Hedge Fund Managers
>
> Times may be tough for most folks, but not for the top moneymakers on Alpha
> magazine’s eighth annual ranking of the world’s highest-earning hedge fund
> managers. They took home, on average, an anything but average $464 million
> apiece in 2008. Four hedge fund managers took home more than $1 billion
> each. Altogether the 25 highest-earning hedge fund managers made $11.6
> billion, making 2008 the third-best year on record since Alpha began
> compiling its exclusive ranking.
>
> Alpha uses two components to calculate earnings: the managers’ shares of
> their firm’s performance and management fees, as well as gains on their own
> capital invested in their funds.
>
> The index below is a guide to the profiles of this year’s top-earning
> managers. Click on the bolded names below to read the top 11 hedge fund
> managers' profiles.
>
> Rank Name Firm Name 2008
> Earnings
> 1 James Simons Renaissance Technologies Corp. $2.5b
> 2 John Paulson Paulson & Co. $2.0b
> 3 John Arnold Centaurus Energy $1.5b
> 4 George Soros Soros Fund Management $1.1b
> 5 Raymond Dalio Bridgewater Associates $780m
> 6 Bruce Kovner Caxton Associates $640m
> 7 David Shaw D.E. Shaw & Co. $275m
> 8 Stanley Druckenmiller Duquesne Capital Management $260m
> 9 (tie) David Harding Winton Capital Management $250m
> 9 (tie) Alan Howard Brevan Howard Asset Management $250m
> 9 (tie) John Taylor Jr. FX Concepts $250m
> 12 James Chanos Kynikos Associates $225m
> 13 Michael Platt BlueCrest Capital Management $210m
> 14 Roy Niederhoffer R.G. Niederhoffer Capital Mgmt $200m
> 15 John Horseman Horseman Capital Management $180m
> 16 Paul Touradji Touradji Capital Management $140m
> 17 Henry Laufer Renaissance Technologies Corp. $125m
> 18 Kenneth Tropin Graham Capital Management $120m
> 19 (tie) Pierre Andurand BlueGold Capital Management $ 90m
> Dennis Crema
> 19 (tie) Christopher Rokos Brevan Howard Asset Management $ 90m
> 22 (tie) Christian Baha Superfund $ 85m
> 22 (tie) Christian Levett Clive Capital $ 85m
> 24 William Dunn Dunn Capital Management $ 80m
> 25 Andrew Hoine Paulson & Co. $ 75m
>
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