Comments on: Top Ten Highest Paid CEOs: What Would You Do?

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:49:34 +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.

By: Candide

Candide — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:58:51 +0000

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

By: Writer's Coin

Writer's Coin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:44:24 +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.

By: Flexo

Flexo — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:12:17 +0000

Yes — same here.

By: KC

KC — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:36:06 +0000

I’m in the wrong business.

By: cherryblossom

cherryblossom — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:07:41 +0000

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

By: Candide

Candide — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:04:59 +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.