Hedge Fund Compensation

Quick question on hedge fund comp - I’m sure it’s been discussed a lot but I couldn't really find specifics. I was reading some articles recently and it basically said some PMs at the HFs earn 15-25% of the profits they make.

So hypothetically speaking if a PM makes $100mm of the group, he gets paid $25mm. How much of that is split among the analysts working for him assuming there are say 3 analysts? Is it a certain % per analyst?

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Hopefully someone in the industry can confirm or correct me, but I'd have to imagine any percentage that high would be on the firm's take, or 20% of returns. So to take home $25MM @25% would require $500MM in returns.

 

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