{"id":45747,"date":"2015-01-09T12:31:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T17:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=45747"},"modified":"2015-01-09T12:32:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T17:32:11","slug":"hedge-fund-employee-compensation-increases-significantly-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2015\/hedge-fund-employee-compensation-increases-significantly-in-2014.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Employee Compensation Increases Significantly in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\">January 9, 2015, New York (HedgeCo.Net<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><i>)<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"> According to the 2015 Hedge Fund Compensation report from Benchmark Compensation, hedge fund employees fared much better than the actual performance of their funds. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\">Between the base salary increases and an increase in bonuses, average cash compensation increased 12% over last year\u2019s report. The fact that compensation rose 12% while the average return was 2% (according to Bloomberg), shows a disconnect between compensation and performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\">In the report, the eighth annual report from Benchmark, respondents reported significantly lower performance numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\">Results showed 79% of surveys showed gains for 2014 which is down from 90% reporting gains in 2013.\u00a0 The report also showed that only 3% of funds reported gains greater than 25% and that is down from 18% in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\">One really interesting result from the survey was how 18% of respondents expected their compensation to decrease in the coming year. Last year\u2019s survey showed only 10% expecting a decrease.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 9, 2015, New York (HedgeCo.Net) According to the 2015 Hedge Fund Compensation report from Benchmark Compensation, hedge fund employees fared much better than the actual performance of their funds. Between the base salary increases and an increase in bonuses, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45748,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45747\/revisions\/45748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}