The 5 highest earning hedge fund managers of 2015

On Tuesday, Institutional Investorreleased their annual list of the top earning hedge fund managers for 2015. There were five huge winners.

The top 25 managers earned just under $13 billion combined. The bulk of that, however, was earned by just the top five, who took home at least $1 billion apiece and accounted for more than half of the top 25's total, with $7.4 billion.

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