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Compensation

Hedge Fund Job Interview: Dealing With Salary History

May 9, 2011

Suppose you’re in a hedge fund job interview and the person across the desk asks, “What’s your salary history?” Is it illegal? Unethical? Should you answer? Susan Lucas examined that issue in a recent article for BNet news. And surprisingly, it’s neither illegal nor unethical to ask, though it may be an unproductive question. Lucas […]

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Hedge Fund Compensation Recovering

February 7, 2011

Overall compensation for hedge fund jobs is recovering from the beating it took during the credit crisis. The $1.9 trillion industry is also getting a fresh influx of capital again, according to news from Advanced Trading. Senior equity professionals at hedge funds, including portfolio managers, traders, and analysts, made an average of $875,000 last year, […]

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Bigger Bonuses for Hedge Fund Managers

November 8, 2010

Hedge fund managers in the U.S. can expect to see bigger bonuses, in time for Christmas, according to new research by Hedge Fund Research and the executive search firm, Glocap. An article in the Financial Times notes that year-end bonuses are set to rise by 5 percent this year. It’s a sign that the hedge […]

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Hedge Fund Compensation May Be Shifting

October 25, 2010

Another change looms for the hedge fund industry: compensation structures that could make hedge funds more “investor friendly.” Institutional investors are already rewriting the rules, and wealthy investors and family offices are sure to follow. The traditional hedge fund compensation structure has been “2 and 20”. A 2% management fee on assets under management (AUM) […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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