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GLG hedge fund executives reduce their salaries to $1
Financial Times – The top three executives at GLG Partners, until recently Europe’s biggest hedge fund, have cut their salaries to $1 (69p) as the global financial turmoil puts pressure on senior managers to waive their pay. Noam Gottesmann and […]
Sears hedge fund guru a stranger to ‘richest’ list he once headed
Chicago Sun-Times – Sears Holdings Corp. Chairman and hedge-fund guru Edward S. Lampert failed for the fourth year to make a list he once topped — the richest hedge-fund managers in the nation. Lampert, who takes no salary from the […]
Baker takes funds’ case to Congress
TheAdvocateOne year ago, former U.S. Rep. Richard Baker, R-Baton Rouge, stepped out of Congress to become the chief lobbyist for the trillion-dollar hedge fund industry and walked right into the economic tornado swirling through the nation. “I don’t have too […]
SMU grad is the go-to guy for seekers of bailout funds
Dallas Morning News – It’s every SMU grad’s dream: to be young, handsome, and closely involved with deciding how to spend $700 billion. Attention, Class of 2000: Your fellow alum, Jeb Mason, is living it. Mr. Mason, 32, has spent […]