高盛首席执行官苏德巍(David Solomon)正发挥「创意」,打破常规给自己增加收入。
华尔街日报报道称,高盛首席执行官和一众副手正在从公司的私募投资基金中抽取利润。这可能使这些高管在未来几年获得数亿美元的额外收入,是他们年薪的几倍。
但苏德巍的额外福利可能会激怒公司股东和高盛的基金经理,因为这些钱将从他们的口袋里流出。
作为华尔街私募投资领域的重要参与者,高盛拥有4260亿美元的自有及客户资金,用于企业收购,投资贷款、房地产和其他投资基金的股权。
传统上,相关私募投资基金利润由操盘的基金经理分享,总的利润分配比例达到50%。但在苏德巍的新分配机制下,基金经理传统50%的利润分配比例将被压缩至35%;另外10%将由高盛约400名合伙人分配;最后的5%则将进入苏德巍和他最亲密副手(不到12个)的个人腰包。
公开资料显示,由于在华尔街交易热潮中获得了创纪录的利润,高盛2021年将苏德巍的薪酬提高了一倍,至3500万美元。为其前任劳埃德·布兰克费恩 (Lloyd Blankfein) 2008年之前巅峰时期的一半。受高盛马来西亚1MDB丑闻事件影响,苏德巍2020年的收入为1750万美元,较前一年减少了1000万美元。
就整体而言,苏德巍的薪资远低于华尔街私募股权公司同行。公开资料显示,华尔街私募股权投资公司联席CEO Joseph Bae 2021年薪资达到惊人的5.6亿美元。
Su Dewei (David Solomon), chief executive of Goldman Sachs Group, is using "creativity" to break the rules and increase his income.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Goldman Sachs Group's chief executive and a group of deputies are drawing profits from the company's private equity funds. This could allow these executives to earn hundreds of millions of dollars in additional income over the next few years, several times their annual salary.
But Su Dewei's perks are likely to infuriate shareholders and Goldman Sachs Group's fund managers because the money will flow out of their pockets.
As an important player in Wall Street's private equity sector, Goldman Sachs Group has $426 billion in self-owned and client funds for corporate acquisitions, investment loans, real estate and other investment funds.
Traditionally, the profits of the relevant private equity funds have been shared by the fund managers who operate the market, with a total profit distribution of 50%. But under Mr Su's new distribution mechanism, the traditional 50 per cent share of profits for fund managers will be reduced to 35 per cent; the other 10 per cent will be allocated by Goldman Sachs Group's about 400 partners; the last 5 per cent will go to Mr Su and his closest deputies (fewer than 12).
Goldman Sachs Group doubled Su Dewei's salary to $35 million in 2021 as a result of record profits from the Wall Street trading boom, according to public information. Half the peak of his predecessor, Lloyd Blankfein (Lloyd Blankfein), before 2008. Affected by Goldman Sachs Group's 1MDB scandal in Malaysia, Su Dewei earned $17.5 million in 2020, down $10 million from the previous year.
Overall, Su Dewei's salary is much lower than that of his Wall Street private equity counterparts. According to public information, the salary of Wall Street private equity co-CEO Joseph Bae reached a staggering $560 million in 2021.