{"id":358513,"date":"2011-04-01T15:08:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T15:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/01\/25-hedge-fund-managers-22-billion-in-pay\/"},"modified":"2011-04-01T15:08:56","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T15:08:56","slug":"25-hedge-fund-managers-22-billion-in-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/25-hedge-fund-managers-22-billion-in-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"25 hedge fund managers = $22 billion in pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"73.146385542169\"><span id=\"fb-recommend\"\/><br \/>\n<span>By Charles Riley, staff reporter<\/span><span>April 1, 2011: 11:05 AM ET<\/span><!--startclickprintexclude--><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (CNNMoney) &#8212; The 25 highest-paid hedge fund managers took home a combined $22.07 billion in 2010, according to a industry magazine&#8217;s survey released Friday.<\/p>\n<p>And, believe it or not, that&#8217;s actually down nearly 13% from the prior year, when they earned $25.33 billion, <i>AR Magazine<\/i> said.<\/p>\n<p><i>AR<\/i> said pack leader was John Paulson, who earned a record $4.9 billion. That means he was making around $155 per second last year.<\/p>\n<p>The founder and president of investment firm Paulson &#038; Co. achieved fame and notoriety for <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.fortune.cnn.com\/2011\/01\/25\/paulson-cashes-in-on-citi-comeback\/\">betting<\/a> against subprime mortgages on the eve of the market crash in 2007. But in 2010, he turned his attention to <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/12\/08\/pf\/investing\/gold_fever.fortune\/index.htm\">gold<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 90% of Paulson&#8217;s personal money is invested in either his gold fund, which returned more than 35 percent last year, or in the gold shares of his other funds, according to <i>AR<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2001, the combined income of the top hedge fund managers was less than $5 billion &#8212; about what Paulson alone made in 2010,&#8221; Michelle Celarier, editor of <i>AR<\/i>, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/01\/28\/news\/companies\/paulson_hedge_fund\/index.htm\">Paulson<\/a> wasn&#8217;t the lone member of <i>AR&#8217;<\/i>s billionaire&#8217;s club. Also making the cut were Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates, at $3.1 billion, Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies, at $2.5 billion, David Tepper of Appaloosa Management, at $2.2 billion, Steve Cohen of SAC Capital Advisors, at $1.3 billion, and Eddie Lampert of ESL Investments, at $1.1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>And what was the lowest amount a manager could earn and still make the list? $210 million.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/04\/01\/news\/economy\/hedge_fund_pay\/index.htm?section=money_topstories&#038;utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_topstories+%28Top+Stories%29#TOP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/money\/images\/bug.gif\" alt=\"To top of page\" border=\"0\" width=\"7\" height=\"7\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--endclickprintexclude--><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The rest is here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/~r\/rss\/money_topstories\/~3\/6T0RNd6yQJA\/index.htm\" title=\"25 hedge fund managers = $22 billion in pay\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">25 hedge fund managers = $22 billion in pay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Charles Riley, staff reporter April 1, 2011: 11:05 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) &#8212; The 25 highest-paid hedge fund managers took home a combined $22.07 billion in 2010, according to a industry magazine&#8217;s survey released Friday. And, believe it or not, that&#8217;s actually down nearly 13% from the prior year, when they earned $25.33 billion, AR Magazine said. AR said pack leader was John Paulson, who earned a record $4.9 billion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-358513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>25 hedge fund managers = $22 billion in pay - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/25-hedge-fund-managers-22-billion-in-pay\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"25 hedge fund managers = $22 billion in pay - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Charles Riley, staff reporter April 1, 2011: 11:05 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The 25 highest-paid hedge fund managers took home a combined $22.07 billion in 2010, according to a industry magazine&#039;s survey released Friday. 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