Highest Paid Hedge Fund Managers
It's good to be a hedge fund manager.
Here are the top 20 highest earning hedge fund and private equity
managers in 2006 according to Forbes magazine. The average earnings
of these top 20 managers is $657.5 million.
| Name |
Company |
2006 Earnings |
| 1. James Simons |
Renaissance Technologies |
$1,500,000,000 |
| 2. Steven Cohen |
SAC Capital |
$1,200,000,000 |
| 3. Kenneth Griffin |
Citadel Investment Group |
$1,200,000,000 |
| 4. T Boone Pickens |
BP Capital |
$1,100,000,000 |
| 5. George Soros |
Soros Fund Management |
$950,000,000 |
| 6. Stephen Schwarzman |
Blackstone Group |
$940,000,000 |
| 7. Edward Lampert |
ESL Investments |
$940,000,000 |
| 8. John Arnold |
Centaurus Energy |
$760,000,000 |
| 9. Bruce Kovner |
Caxton Associates |
$590,000,000 |
| 10. Henry Kravis |
Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts |
$450,000,000 |
| 11. George Roberts |
Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts |
$450,000,000 |
| 12. David Shaw |
DE Shaw & Co. |
$430,000,000 |
| 13. Paul Tudor Jones |
Tudor Investment |
$430,000,000 |
| 14. Carl Icahn |
Icahn Partners |
$350,000,000 |
| 15. Stephen Feinberg |
Cerberus Capital |
$330,000,000 |
| 16. Wesley Edens |
Fortress Investment Group |
$330,000,000 |
| 17. Michael Novogartz |
Fortress Investment Group |
$320,000,000 |
| 18. Peter Briger |
Fortress Investment Group |
$320,000,000 |
| 19. Daniel Och |
Och-Ziff Capital Management |
$300,000,000 |
| 20. David Rubenstein |
Carlyle Group |
$260,000,000 |
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