{"id":57035,"date":"2017-03-15T09:21:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T13:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=57035"},"modified":"2017-03-15T08:56:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T12:56:12","slug":"the-25-highest-earning-hedge-fund-managers-and-traders-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2017\/the-25-highest-earning-hedge-fund-managers-and-traders-of-2016.html","title":{"rendered":"The 25 Highest-Earning Hedge Fund Managers and Traders Of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Forbes) Both a quantitative trading genius and a trader who recently stopped managing client money top Forbes\u2019 list of the 25 highest-earning hedge fund managers and traders of 2016. James Simons and Michael Platt each personally made an estimated $1.5 billion last year and the way they did it speaks volumes about where the struggling hedge fund industry is these days. Simons is chairman of the hedge fund firm he founded, Renaissance Technologies, which manages $36 billion. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/nathanvardi\/2017\/03\/14\/hedge-fund-managers\/#4ce9971d6e79\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Forbes) Both a quantitative trading genius and a trader who recently stopped managing client money top Forbes\u2019 list of the 25 highest-earning hedge fund managers and traders of 2016. James Simons and Michael Platt each personally made an estimated $1.5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57035","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57036,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57035\/revisions\/57036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}