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Hedge Fund Fees Officially Say Goodbye To 2 And 20

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Rupert Hargreaves
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Only a few years ago, the idea of a hedge fund manager breaking the mould and charging less than a 2% management fee and a 20% performance fee was met with a great degree of scepticism. However, today, rather than this being the exception, charging less than the traditional 2 and 20 has become the norm.

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Hedge fund fees have always been a contentious issue, but only in the past few years have managers really started to bow to investor pressure to cut costs. The emergence of low-cost passive investments such as ETFs and tracker funds, as well as hedge funds' own poor performance has forced managers' hands....

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