Wealthy Investors Keep Paying Hedge-Fund Fees Even With "Anemic" Returns

[Parsad]

Investors have not learned their lesson from 2008.  Incentives for hedge funds, and the fund industry in general, are not aligned with the investor's own interests. 

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-07/wealthy-investors-keep-paying-hedge-fund-fees-even-with-anemic-returns.html

 

While it has been tougher than the alternative, I could not imagine using any other fee structure than what we have...no "1 & 20", "2 & 20", or even "4 & 25"!  We don't make our partners money, we don't get paid...simple!  Cheers!

[stahleyp]

This is more like it:

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-05-09/a-hedge-fund-fee-plan-that-only-charges-for-alpha