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Washington debates carried interest taxes again, end of an era
Is carried interest back on the table? The idea of ending what some now call the "carried interest" loop hole has ebbed and flowed over the last four or five years, and it is now once again flowing through Congress, stirring controversy as it always does.
To some, the idea that managers of al
Should more pensions get tough with hedge funds?
A few pensions have broken new ground when it came to pressing hedge funds to be more transparent about their fees and other dealings. For several years now, CalPERS has been aiming to secure better terms with all alternative investment funds.
The massive pensions tells ai5000 that it's
New Galileo hedge fund to bet on sports
There's a lot of competition out there when it comes to stock investing. Hedge funds ( hedge fund news) are looking for other asset classes with more inefficiencies to exploit. So what to make of a London firm's plans to start up a hedge fund that bets on sports?
The Galileo fund, to be run
More on hedge fund-like mutual funds
We've noted before that the mutual fund and hedge fund industries are converging at the margins. The entire 130/30 movement and the passive hedge fund index movement can be interpreted as the mutual funds industry trying to cash in on the appeal of hedge funds.
AllAboutAlpha.com takes an i
Plunging hedge funds take incentives down too
Portfolio makes a very astute point about what happens to hedge fund manager incentives once they plunge in value. To put it bluntly, the incentive goes away. "Two and 20" works when the fund is rising or when it dips a just a bit. But after a massive plunge, some managers may be more likely t
Hedge funds to ask for longer time horizons?
We've noted recently that the hedge fund industry has a lot of thinking to do when it comes to its business model. A big issue right now is the period over which limited partners must keep their funds invested. We've noted that there are many who think hedge funds would be much better off with a p
Are hedge funds more expensive than mutual funds?
The conventional wisdom holds that hedge funds , with a typical 2 and 20 fee structure, are more expensive than mutual funds, with a roughly 120 basis point expense ratio. But that may not be the case, notes AllAboutAlpha.com . It really comes down to how you apportion the fees within a fund
