Steven A. Cohen
An American billionaire hedge fund manager and the founder and
manager of SAC Capital Partners, a Stamford, Connecticut-based hedge
fund. Cohen was running his own trading group at Gruntal by 1984, and
continued running it until he started his own company, SAC.[2] Cohen
started SAC with $25 million in 1992; today the firm controls $12
billion in equity [3].
The New York Times referred to Cohen as "A New Prince of Wall Street"
With a fortune estimated by Forbes at $8 billion, Cohen is the 36th
richest American. His 2005 compensation was reportedly $1 billion