Record payday for hedge fund elite

The top ten titans of the trading floor earned $20.1 billion during the pandemic year of 2020. According to data from Institutional Investor, that’s a 50 percent rise from $13.4 billion in 2019
     

Israel Englander 
James Simons
Kenneth Griffin
Steve Cohen 
David Tepper


Hedge fund managers’ earnings	Hedge fund return (2020)

Israel Englander – Millennium Management 26% $3.8 billion
James Simons – Renaissance Tech. 76% $2.6bn
Chase Coleman – Tiger Global Mgmt. 48% $2.5bn
Kenneth Griffin – Citadel 24% $1.8bn
Steve Cohen – Point72 16% $1.7bn
David Tepper 13% $1.7bn			Appaloosa Mgmt.
Philippe Laffont 65% $1.6bn		Coatue Mgmt.
Ole Andreas Halvorsen $1.5bn 27%	Viking Global Investors
Scott Shleifer $1.5bn 65%		Tiger Global Mgmt.
Bill Ackman $1.4bn 70%			Pershing Square Capital Mgmt.
 
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Sources: Reuters, Institutional Investor 
Pictures: Associated Press, Millennium 
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