Top hedge fund earners include familiar names, but top performer in 2014 earns four times less than what the top performer in 2013 earned The top earning hedge fund manager in 2014, Point72’s Steve Cohen, fought off both Department of Justice and Security and Exchange investigations and re-organized his SAC Capital fund into the Point72 family office at the behest of regulators during the year. With all these distractions he nonetheless earned more than any hedge fund manager, garnering $1.3 billion last year, according to a Forbes report from Nathan Vardi. Despite his success, the 2014 payday pales in comparison to…
Forbes List Of Top Hedge Fund Earners Full Of Familiar Faces
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.