LONDON (AFP) - Hedge fund boss Christopher Hohn set a UK record in 2020 for the biggest ever annual paycheck after he paid himself almost half a billion US dollars, according to documents filed on Monday (March 1). The billionaire boss, who owns 100 per cent of the Children's Investment (TCI) fund which he runs, paid the £343 million (S$634 million) sum into his personal company TCI Fund Management, documents at Companies House showed. The amount paid in dividends for the fiscal year ending in March is the highest ever paid to an individual in the Britain, The Guardian newspaper reported. The figure is 9,000 times the average annual salary in Britain. Mr Hohn broke the record previously held by Denise Coates, the founder of the British online betting site Bet365, who in 2018 pocketed £323 million in salaries and dividends. The previous year, the TCI boss received a sum of US$261 million (S$346.4 million) but he gave himself a pay rise after his fund's pre-tax profit rose from US$420 million in 2018-2019 to US$695 million in 2019-2020. TCI, which was founded in 2003, has made a name for itself by taking minority stakes in numerous multinationals with the aim of influencing their str...