US pension funds and private equity: enormous fees, poor returns
An article in the UK Financial Times from August 6 reports in these words on the conclusions from a new study of US private equity fees and returns since 2006: "US private equity managers have extracted $400bn in fees and expenses from investors since 2006 but on average they failed to beat the returns from an S&P 500 tracker fund."
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