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USATODAY.com
$363M is average pay for top hedge fund managers
Friday May 26, 12:16 am ET
By Adam Shell, USA TODAY
James Simons, a mathematician turned money manager who prefers hiring Ph.D.s over MBAs, inched out oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens Jr. as the world's best-paid hedge fund manager in 2005, collecting an estimated $1.5 billion, according to rankings released today by Institutional Investor's Alpha magazine.
In rising to the top of what amounts to a who's who list of the secretive hedge fund world, Simons, of Renaissance Technologies, unseated 2004's top earner and first-ever billion-dollar man, Edward Lampert of ESL Investments, who is best known for buying Kmart and masterminding the blockbuster deal to buy Sears. Lampert's earnings dipped to an estimated $425 million last year, down from $1.0 billion in 2004.
Pickens also topped $1 billion,................
Other big-name managers ...................George Soros......................
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Steven Cohen of SAC Capital Advisors, whom BusinessWeek called "the most powerful trader on Wall Street you've never heard of" in a July 2003 cover story;
!!!!!!En ja, deze Steven Cohen is met meer dan 1 milj. aandelen pas in Insmed ingestapt!!
Maar gelukkig:
The managers didn't just line their own pockets. "I suspect they have made more money for their clients than themselves," says Charles Davidson, hedge fund director at Standard & Poor's.
Psycho
SAC: follow the leader