George Soros, Elliott Management's Paul Singer and Bluecrest's Michael Platt have been named in a Forbes list of the top 25 highest-earning fund managers for 2015.
The list of the highest earning hedge fund managers and traders features Soros (pictured) as the tenth highest earner, taking in a total of $300m throughout 2015 with his company Soros Fund Management.
Meanwhile, Bluecrest co-founder and chief executive Platt came in at 15th with $225m even though BlueCrest made the headlines as it announced it would return around $7bn of third party investor capital in order to become a private investment partnership.
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The move was blamed on fee pressure within the hedge fund industry and teh costs of retaining fund manager talent.
Also on the Forbes list in joint 22nd position, was activist investor Singer of Elliott Management, who took in $100m.
Part of Singer's firm is Elliot Advisors, which is heavily invested in Alliance Trust, and has been embroiled in a ongoing public spat over the formation of the trust's board, culminating with the departure of chief executive Katherine Garrett-Cox earlier this month.
Louis Bacon, founder of Moore Capital Management earned $100m in 2015. Earlier this year, Rory Hill and Ben Lynch left Moore Capital Management to join Man GLG's long/short equity team.
The list was topped by Ken Griffin, chief executive of Citadel, who earned $1.7bn last year aged just 47 years, followed by quantitative trader James Simons of Renaissance Technologies, who made $1.65bn, and Point72 Asset Management's Steve Cohen, who took in $1.6bn.
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Collectively the 25 highest-earning hedge fund managers and traders made a combined $12bn in 2015, slightly less than the $12.5bn they made in 2014.
