The company ’ s recent acquisition is making news : Macquarie recently bought AWAS Aviation Capital for $ 4 billion , raising half a billion to fund the acquisition . 3 . ROBERT THOMSON , NEWS CORP : $ 13.22 MILLION
TOP 10 HIGHEST PAID CEOS financing and securities business . He took over the top role in 2008 , and since then has been position the company as one of the Asia Pacific ’ s leading financial service providers . Moore has seen an even larger increase in pay than Gries : a whopping 49 percent increase in pay just this year . The increase reflects the increase in profit he led the company to : 49 percent to reach $ 1.9 billion .
The company ’ s recent acquisition is making news : Macquarie recently bought AWAS Aviation Capital for $ 4 billion , raising half a billion to fund the acquisition . 3 . ROBERT THOMSON , NEWS CORP : $ 13.22 MILLION
Nicolas Moore
Robert Thomson
Like Moore and Gries , Thomson has been working in his field for decades . He was the former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal , and the former editor of The Times newspaper in London , and earlier in his career worked for the Sydney Morning Herald , the Financial Times and The Times of London . The Australian journalist took the top spot at News Corp in 2013 , where half of his salary in 2014 was made up of long-term share incentives .
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