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Re: Top Ten Highest Paid CEOs: What Would You Do?

freeby50 — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:49:34 -0000

Yahoo finance shows the compensation of top executives. They have figures as of Dec 2008. Ellison's base bay is about $11M. He exercised over $540M in stock options. Irani at Occidental had base salary of just under $5M and exercised about $185M in stock.

I bet that most of that compensation for those executives was in the form of cashed in stock incentives.

Re: Top Ten Highest Paid CEOs: What Would You Do?

Candide — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:58:51 -0000

I work with a client who's worth well in excess of $100 million. He uses short term T-bills and notes.

Re: Top Ten Highest Paid CEOs: What Would You Do?

Writer's Coin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:44:24 -0000

It's funny because I've thought of this a million times and whenever I break it down and say, "I"ll invest half in a conservative series of index funds," it hits me. Will I really invest hundreds of millions of dollars in index funds? It's scary. Yet I have no problem investing all/most of my Roth IRA money (which is nowhere near that amount, obviously) in those funds.

I guess I feel like, if I had that much money, I wouldn't "risk" it like that. I'd probably commit a cardinal sin and stash it in my house somewhere.

Re: Top Ten Highest Paid CEOs: What Would You Do?

Harlan Landes — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:12:17 -0000

Yes -- same here.

Re: Top Ten Highest Paid CEOs: What Would You Do?

KC — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:36:06 -0000

I'm in the wrong business.

Re: Top Ten Highest Paid CEOs: What Would You Do?

cherryblossom — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:07:41 -0000

So seven out of ten are in the energy sector. Makes ya think.

Re: Top Ten Highest Paid CEOs: What Would You Do?

Candide — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:04:59 -0000

Correction: it's $702 million, not billion.

Schwartzman made a promise to donate $100 million to the NY Public Library a year or so ago. Let's see him up that.