{"id":78268,"date":"2021-08-08T17:18:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T21:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=78268"},"modified":"2021-08-08T17:18:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T21:18:04","slug":"the-money-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=78268","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Money Is Gone&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>&#8220;The Money Is Gone&#8221;: Archegos Employees Lose $500 Million From Company Bonus Pool<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->Zerohedge.com<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t just Bill Hwang who is &#8220;suffering&#8221; from the spectacular crash of Archegos Capital Management. The company&#8217;s employees have also lost about $500 million after their deferred pay plan crashed in value alongside the firm&#8217;s other holdings.<\/p>\n<p>The value of the deferred bonuses had risen to as high as $500 million before the company&#8217;s collapse,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/9de1d6cd-423d-4b56-b479-982ec085a6b6\">FT reported<\/a>\u00a0last week.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to creating turmoil at banks like Nomura and Credit Suisse after being forced to unwind its extremely leveraged trades, the cash owed to employees is now at risk.<\/p>\n<p>The employee&#8217;s fund was made up of annual bonuses that were carried over under the promise of being released at the point an employee left the firm.<\/p>\n<p>Employees invested &#8220;under $50 million&#8221; into the fund from the onset, the report notes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/hwang.png?itok=fWIwvL4h\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/hwang.png?itok=fWIwvL4h\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/hwang.png?itok=fWIwvL4h\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"9856707b-9a91-4e28-bb8d-4c373b311c48\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FT reviewed a document detailing the bonus fund plans which said: &#8220;The company will increase or decrease the amount of the deferred payment by the percentage that the fund\u2019s invested capital has increased or decreased in value.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The document notes that 25% of each employees annual bonus was invested into the fund and was to be paid when the employee left Archegos. The document also states that the payout &#8220;would not fall below its original value&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Some former employees said they haven&#8217;t received their deferred pay, however, including the original amount invested.<\/p>\n<p>People close to Archegos said: \u201cthe money is gone\u201d with \u201cno pot of gold to pay them from\u201d and that the employees \u201care in a difficult position\u201d and \u201cwarrant sympathy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/money-gone-archegos-employees-lose-500-million-company-bonus-pool\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/money-gone-archegos-employees-lose-500-million-company-bonus-pool<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Money Is Gone&#8221;: Archegos Employees Lose $500 Million From Company Bonus Pool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}