Top 40 hedge fund managers earn total of $16.7bn
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Top 40 hedge fund managers earn total of $16.7bn
Top 40 hedge fund managers earn total of $16.7bn
The top 40 hedge fund managers in the world personally earned a total of
$16.7bn (£11bn) last year, according to a Forbes list that underscores the
extraordinary power of the high-rolling industry.
Michael Hintze of CQS earned
$350m last year making him the highest ranked London-based fund manager on the
Forbes list of top 40 best paid hedge fund managers in the world.
By Louise Armitstead, Chief Business
Correspondent
12:28PM GMT 26 Feb 2013
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David Tepper who runs New Jersey-based Appaloosa Management earned $2.2bn, according to the list.
Sometimes described as the best investor of all time, Mr Tepper’s $15bn fund
returned another 30pc last year.
The best performing London-based manager was Michael Hintze of CQS
Management. The Tory donor and philanthropist earned $350m after generating 36pc
returns on his flagship fund.
Mr Hintze, who is a key sponsor of London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, has
credited the Bank of England’s quantitative easing programme as key driver of
the stock market rally. The Bank has pumped £375bn of money
into the economy since the start of its QE programme in 2009.
Mike Platt, founder of BlueCrest Capital Management, was the only other
London-based fund manager in Forbes’ top 20. The former JP Morgan banker earned
$225m.
Alan Howard, co-founder of Brevan Howard, is listed at 21 with earnings of
$200m. Mr Howard moved the hedge fund’s headquarters from London to Geneva in
2009.
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If they were a country, the 40 highest earning managers would have the 111th
biggest GDP in the world.
The top five on Forbes’ list are all well-know veterans of the industry who
together earned $7.8bn of the total.
After Mr Tepper, Carl Icahn, the 77-year-old boss of Icahn Capital, is second
on the list with earnings of $1.9bn.
He is followed by Steve Cohen, 57, of SAC Capital Advisors who shrugged off a
federal probe in insider trading, to generate 25pc returns and a $1.3bn payday
for himself.
The “Quant King” James Simons of Renaissance Technologies earned $1.3bn too
while George Soros, 82, earned $1.1bn. In January Mr Soros told The Daily
Telegraph that the markets should bet against the pound.
The highest 10 managers earned a total of $11bn and included David Shaw of DE
Shaw and Daniel Loeb of Third Point who recently made $500m on betting on Greek
debt.
The performance of the best funds contrasts with an otherwise difficult year
for hedge funds. Managers outside the “masters” category struggled during 2012.
The HFRX, a widely used measure of industry returns, is up by just 3pc over
the past year, compared with an 18pc rise in the S&P 500 share index.
At the end of last year, SS&C, an American hedge fund administrator, said
investors pulled money out of hedge funds faster than at any time since 2009.
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This is obscene when you think of all the unemployment and poverty around the World.
The top 40 hedge fund managers in the world personally earned a total of
$16.7bn (£11bn) last year, according to a Forbes list that underscores the
extraordinary power of the high-rolling industry.
Michael Hintze of CQS earned
$350m last year making him the highest ranked London-based fund manager on the
Forbes list of top 40 best paid hedge fund managers in the world.
By Louise Armitstead, Chief Business
Correspondent
12:28PM GMT 26 Feb 2013
40 Comments
David Tepper who runs New Jersey-based Appaloosa Management earned $2.2bn, according to the list.
Sometimes described as the best investor of all time, Mr Tepper’s $15bn fund
returned another 30pc last year.
The best performing London-based manager was Michael Hintze of CQS
Management. The Tory donor and philanthropist earned $350m after generating 36pc
returns on his flagship fund.
Mr Hintze, who is a key sponsor of London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, has
credited the Bank of England’s quantitative easing programme as key driver of
the stock market rally. The Bank has pumped £375bn of money
into the economy since the start of its QE programme in 2009.
Mike Platt, founder of BlueCrest Capital Management, was the only other
London-based fund manager in Forbes’ top 20. The former JP Morgan banker earned
$225m.
Alan Howard, co-founder of Brevan Howard, is listed at 21 with earnings of
$200m. Mr Howard moved the hedge fund’s headquarters from London to Geneva in
2009.
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If they were a country, the 40 highest earning managers would have the 111th
biggest GDP in the world.
The top five on Forbes’ list are all well-know veterans of the industry who
together earned $7.8bn of the total.
After Mr Tepper, Carl Icahn, the 77-year-old boss of Icahn Capital, is second
on the list with earnings of $1.9bn.
He is followed by Steve Cohen, 57, of SAC Capital Advisors who shrugged off a
federal probe in insider trading, to generate 25pc returns and a $1.3bn payday
for himself.
The “Quant King” James Simons of Renaissance Technologies earned $1.3bn too
while George Soros, 82, earned $1.1bn. In January Mr Soros told The Daily
Telegraph that the markets should bet against the pound.
The highest 10 managers earned a total of $11bn and included David Shaw of DE
Shaw and Daniel Loeb of Third Point who recently made $500m on betting on Greek
debt.
The performance of the best funds contrasts with an otherwise difficult year
for hedge funds. Managers outside the “masters” category struggled during 2012.
The HFRX, a widely used measure of industry returns, is up by just 3pc over
the past year, compared with an 18pc rise in the S&P 500 share index.
At the end of last year, SS&C, an American hedge fund administrator, said
investors pulled money out of hedge funds faster than at any time since 2009.
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