
At hedge funds with less than $100 million under management, portfolio managers reported an average of nearly $203,000 in base compensation in 2017, plus bonus pay of $1.12 million. They anonymously disclosed their 2017 base compensation and variable compensation, as well as what their expectations for compensation over the next two years.Īccording to the report, the best-paid Asian portfolio managers were those at the smallest hedge funds. Roughly 500 portfolio managers and research analysts at hedge funds, investment advisory firms, and mutual funds in Asia responded to the latest compensation survey. Hedge fund managers in the United States took home just shy of $1 million in 2017, according to the All-America Buy Side Compensation Report published in November. Meanwhile, February’s All-Europe Buy-Side Compensation Report found that the average hedge fund portfolio manager in Europe earned $573,761 last year. This makes Asian hedge fund managers some of the best paid in the world, out-earning peers in the U.S. Portfolio managers at hedge funds in Asia earned an average of close to $1.1 million in total compensation last year, including almost $878,000 in bonuses, options, and commission.

It pays to work at a hedge fund in Asia, at least according to data collected through Institutional Investor’s brand new All-Asia Buy-Side Compensation report.
