Best-Paid Hedge Fund Managers

John Paulson rocketed to No. 1 in Alpha‘s seventh annual survey by shorting the subprime mortgage market.

Click here to view 2009 Top 25 Highest-Earning Hedge Fund Managers

Alpha uses two components to calculate earnings: managers’ share of their firm’s performance and management fees, as well as gains on their own capital. (For multibillionaires like Soros and Simons, the latter can be substantial.)

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