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Brevan Howard Asset Management
$90 Million
Chris Rokos, the “R” in the Brevan of Brevan Howard Asset Management, played a big role in the 21 percent return posted by the London-based firm’s flagship $16 billion multistrategy fund last year. A former fixed-income derivatives trader at Credit Suisse First Boston, Rokos specializes in relative value trading. He and several other colleagues from CSFB joined their old boss, Alan Howard (No. 9), to found Brevan Howard in 2002.
The publicity-shy Rokos, 38, is one of 12 managers who debut on this year’s list of top earners. He got some attention in 2007 when he submitted plans to turn a rundown former hotel in the monied London borough of Kensington into a ten-bedroom home. He bought the property for $36 million and his renovation is expected to cost an additional $40 million.
