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发帖数: 2909 | 1 It has been the frenzied guessing game which has swept the City: who is the
Goldman Sachs banker who picked up the $100m bonus?
The American investment bank is known to have paid one of its London
partners the colossal sum - possibly the biggest bonus in City history,
equivalent to £51m.
The first name in the frame was 'proprietary' trader Driss Ben-Brahim. But
reports last week that Mr Ben-Brahim landed a £50m bonus have been
denied.
Today, the latest name in circulation was French-born trader Pierre-Henri
Flamand, 36, who heads the successful in-house hedge fund at Goldman Sachs,
which made record global profits of $9.4bn (£4.8bn) this year.
Mr Flamand, who lives in Kensington, runs the Principal Strategies Group at
Goldman's Fleet Street offices. He is said to be a highly skilled trader who
has shot up through the bank's hierarchy, making partner at the age of just
34.
Like many of the top players at Goldman Sachs, he avoids the conspicuous
consumption seen in City booms of the Eighties and late Nineties.
The only deal he has been publicly linked with was a $10m investment in
Irish bio-technology firm Bedminster International. According to headhunters
, even his monumental earnings are now no longer considered exceptional.
The New York Post quoted one Goldman source saying: 'Apparently, a $100m
payout isn't as uncommon as some originally thought.'
Another member of the super elite who measure earnings in nine figures is
said to be Morgan Sze, a head principal strategies trader in Hong Kong.
Duncan Mackay of specialist hedge fund recruitment firm Hedgehunt, said: 'A
small number of people will be making this sort of money... six or seven. '
They are usually running separate businesses, making enormous profits for
their banks and getting paid for performance.
'If you are a trader and you make $100m for your bank then you should expect
$10m. Similarly, if you are making $1bn then you should expect around $100m
.'
Jeanne Branthover, head of financial services at Boyden-Executive Search in
New York, said: 'There are only a handful of guys at this end of the scale
but a lot of people made $20m, $30m, $40m. If you reach managing director
level at Goldman Sachs, you don't jump ship.'
The bulk of the money is in shares or options that lock the employee in for
years, not cash. The bank routinely plays down the scale of its workers' pay
.
A spokesman said : 'Nobody has earned anything like $100m this year.'
However, according to one source, 'the discontent is pretty widespread among
the junior ranks'.
A banker at a rival was quoted as saying: 'I've got a row of 25-year-olds
outside my door telling me that if they get £200,000 it's not enough.'
This year's record £9bn bonus round has meant a bonanza of spending
for retailers. Jewellers Boodles said its Royal Exchange branch is enjoying
its best Christmas ever.
Mayor Ken Livingstone called on Gordon Brown to tax the bonuses and spend
the money on the environment and housing.
He said: 'It's absolutely and completely obscene if you look at people -
senior police officers, firefighters, who put their lives at risk - who are
earning a fraction, perhaps a tenth, of the bonuses.' | a*****k
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: It has been the frenzied guessing game which has swept the City: who is the
: Goldman Sachs banker who picked up the $100m bonus?
: The American investment bank is known to have paid one of its London
: partners the colossal sum - possibly the biggest bonus in City history,
: equivalent to £51m.
: The first name in the frame was 'proprietary' trader Driss Ben-Brahim. But
: reports last week that Mr Ben-Brahim landed a £50m bonus have been
: denied.
: Today, the latest name in circulation was French-born trader Pierre-Henri
: Flamand, 36, who heads the successful in-house hedge fund at Goldman Sachs,
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