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Meet Mr $3.5 Billion; Yes, That's What He Earned Last Year

Appaloosa Management's David Tepper made $3.5 billion last year; Enough for Top Spot on the list of the top 25 hedge fund managers
/ Source: CNBC.com
By Jeff Cox, CNBC
Appaloosa Management's David Tepper made $3.5 billion in earnings last year putting him at the top of Institutional Investor magazine's list of the top 25 hedge fund managers in 2013.
Appaloosa Management's David Tepper made $3.5 billion in earnings last year putting him at the top of Institutional Investor magazine's list of the top 25 hedge fund managers in 2013.Adam Jeffery / CNBC
Jeff Cox, CNBC

Jeff Cox is a finance editor with CNBC.com where he covers all aspects of the markets and monitors coverage of the financial markets and Wall Street. His stories are routinely among the most-read items on the site each day as he interviews some of the smartest and most well-respected analysts and advisors in the financial world.

Over the course of a journalism career that began in 1987, Cox has covered everything from the collapse of the financial system to presidential politics to local government battles in his native Pennsylvania.