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Compensation

Hedge Fund Manager among the World’s Youngest Billionaires

October 11, 2010

Hedge fund manager John Arnold, 36, made the list of Forbes Magazine’s youngest billionaires, with a net worth of $4 billion. Surprisingly, that only put him at number 212 on a list of 937 billionaires worldwide.
Arnold started as an oil trader for Enron in the 1990s. When Enron collapsed, he founded Centaurus Advisors, LLC, a [...]

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Hedge Fund Compensation Continues to Evolve

May 3, 2010

We’ve mentioned before how institutions are putting downward pressure on the traditional “2 and 20″ compensation scheme of hedge funds. Now, despite the upward trend in the markets through 2009 and into 2010, this compensation pressure seems to be gathering strength.
Only 38 percent of global hedge funds surveyed by alternative investment research firm Preqin still [...]

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Is the Grass Greener at a Hedge Fund Job?

December 27, 2009

We’ve all seen the headlines about investment bank traders or mutual fund managers leaving their jobs to join or start their own hedge fund. Is it just for the money? Bragging rights? Or a certain cache of saying you’re a hedge fund manager at the local watering hole?
A recent article in All About Alpha explores [...]

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Hedge Fund Trends Reflect Uncertainty

December 14, 2009

The market meltdown and recent scandals involving Bernie Madoff and the Galleon Group insider-trading case may lead to more intense scrutiny and long-term systemic changes for the hedge fund industry, according to Reuters.
Among the changes on the horizon for the industry will be mandatory registration with the SEC, and perhaps closer governmental oversight of the [...]

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Deferred Comp Coming to Hedge Funds Jobs?

November 23, 2009

In a move mirroring their cousins in the investment banking world, hedge funds are entertaining the idea of deferring bonus payments to take place over longer periods of time.
A greater portion of the typical hedge fund employee’s compensation – as much as 50 percent – may be paid out over longer periods of time, to [...]

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Hedge Fund Compensation Edges Up

November 16, 2009

After taking a nosedive in 2008, hedge fund compensation at U.S. funds has begun to inch up again, according to a new survey from Glocap Search and HedgeWorld.
Total compensation, including salaries and bonuses, moved up by 7 percent in 2009 for middle- and bottom-performing funds, and by 2 percent at top performing funds. This pales [...]

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Hedge Fund Compensation Survey

October 11, 2009

It is time again to assess where the hedge fund industry is headed with regard to compensation levels. You are invited to participate in the Job Search Digest annual hedge fund compensation survey, which we are conducting to provide information to evaluate compensation, negotiate better job offers, and benchmark firm compensation practices.
We had such tremendous [...]

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