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The hedge fund manager earns Britain’s biggest salary. He also avoids meat, likes yoga and supports Extinction RebellionHedge fund manager Sir Chris Hohn once made a point of telling a high court judge that he was an “unbelievable moneymaker”. This week Hohn proved his point – definitively – when it was revealed that he paid himself just shy of £1m-a-day last year.Hohn collected $479m...

Faced by inaction on national and state level, city decided to go it alone and tackle huge wealth gapOn Matt Haney’s walk to work at San Francisco city hall he passes the luxurious homes of some of the richest US tech billionaires, as well as hundreds of the country’s most desperate people living in tent encampments on the street.The “extreme, shocking inequality” he and...

Adviser Pirc says Musk’s pay and Twitter outbursts pose ‘serious risk of reputation harm to the company’ Tesla investors are being urged to vote to remove Elon Musk, the electric vehicle company’s founder and chief executive, from the board of the firm as anger mounts over his bonus deal that could pay him a record $55.8bn (£40bn).Pirc, an influential adviser to shareholders, including the...

Under pay scheme, founder must build electric carmaker into $650bn company by 2028The Tesla founder, Elon Musk, has taken the first step to becoming $50bn (£38bn) richer after the value of the electric car company surged past $100bn.Musk, already a multibillionaire with a net worth estimated at about $30bn, secured approval in 2018 for a pay deal that would dwarf existing records for renumeration...