{"id":7534,"date":"2008-04-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"paulsons-37-billion-pay-tops-hedge-fund-managers-alpha-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2008\/paulsons-37-billion-pay-tops-hedge-fund-managers-alpha-says.html","title":{"rendered":"Paulson&#8217;s $3.7 Billion Pay Tops Hedge Fund Managers, Alpha Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg- John Paulson, founder of New York- based Paulson &amp; Co., was paid an estimated $3.7 billion last year, the most in the hedge fund industry, according to Institutional Investor&#8217;s Alpha Magazine. <\/p>\n<p>Paulson, 52, surpassed George Soros and last year&#8217;s winner James Simons in a ranking of the 50 highest-paid hedge fund managers. Soros ranked second, earning about $2.9 billion. Simons was third, making an estimated $2.8 billion last year. <\/p>\n<p>The average compensation of the top 25 fund managers was $892 million, up 68 percent from last year. The minimum compensation included in the ranking was $210 million, Alpha reported. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news%3Fpid%3D20601087%26sid%3DaxHxRPBdtun8%26refer%3Dhome\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg- John Paulson, founder of New York- based Paulson &amp; Co., was paid an estimated $3.7 billion last year, the most in the hedge fund industry, according to Institutional Investor&#8217;s Alpha Magazine. Paulson, 52, surpassed George Soros and last year&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}