The Complete Rich List: The 22nd Annual Ranking of the Highest-Earning Hedge Fund Managers

Left to right: David Tepper, Izzy Englander, Ken Griffin, Jim Simons, Steve Cohen (Bloomberg and courtesy photos)

Left to right: David Tepper, Izzy Englander, Ken Griffin, Jim Simons, Steve Cohen

(Bloomberg and courtesy photos)

It was a bad year for many of the usual suspects — but not for Ken Griffin.

Stocks may have plunged into a bear market in 2022 — but that didn’t stop hedge fund managers from bringing home billions of dollars in personal earnings.

Although the market rout caused a large portion of long-short and long-only managers to lose money last year — with many performing even worse than the S&P 500 index’s 19 percent decline — 2022 was a very good year for multistrategy, macro, trend-following, and fixed-income managers.

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