article_snippet: This takes the total amount he has collected in five years at the helm to more than £41million.
article_snippet: The 52-year-old announced he resignation earlier this month and will shortly become chief executive of Credit Suisse.
article_snippet: But he pay was dwarfed by the £15.4million scooped by fund manager Richard Woolnough – who runs almost £35billion of savers’ money for
article_snippet: the Pru’s investment arm M&G. fund manager Richard Woolnough runs several funds which are widely held in savers’ pensions and investment ISAs.
article_snippet: These include the M&G Optimal Income fund, which runs just under £24billion of savers’ money.
article_snippet: Mike Wells, the boss of the insurer’s US arm and the man expected to take over from Mr Thiam, was paid £11.4million.
article_snippet: Lloyds’ chief executive Antonio Horta Osorio was comfortably the highest-paid bank boss in the UK last year, scooping £11.5million.
article_snippet: Stuart Gulliver of HSBC was next in the pecking order with £7.6million.
article_snippet: In comparison, highly paid pensions bosses have largely managed to avoid the limelight.
highlights_snippet: But fund manager Richard Woolnough scooped a massive £15.4million .
  