WINNERS
STEVE SCHWARZMAN

Private-equity titan and Blackstone Group CEO files $4B IPO to attract, retain talent.

JOHN THAIN

NYSE top dog pockets $9.4M in 2006 compensation after getting base salary cut to $750,000 in April.

KEVIN QUINN

Ex-Jefferies salesman raised $50M in capital to start Cottage Capital, a Boston hedge fund.

LOSERS
JIM CRAMER

Big mouth financial talker sweats after admitting he manipulated stock prices earlier in his career.

RON PERELMAN

Florida appeals court blocks billionaire’s $2B award for being cheated by Morgan Stanley.

JOHN ANTIOCO

Blockbuster CEO loses battle and war with Carl Icahn, gets a much narrower pay package than he wanted and

gets booted to curb.