SumZero, the online community for buy-side professionals, has put out its annual compensation report for hedge funds.
Of the website's 12,000 members, about 3,500 shared their compensation details for the report. The data set includes funds of different sizes, ranging from big funds to small, single-employee funds.
One area of investing really stands out for 2015 when it comes to expected pay, and that is distressed debt.
One of the charts shows that the median expected pay for those in a distressed-credit strategy is north of $400,000.
To read the report in full, click here.
Distressed debt involves buying the bonds of companies that are in or near bankruptcy. A lot of big-name investors have been putting in money to work in distressed debt, especially in energy as they look for a bottom in the oil-price collapse.
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