Hold on. Let me take another swig of coffee so I can decorate my screen with it.
How can this possibly be true? This would mean that there is some form of accreditation for investing that allows someone to qualify who thinks that a 3.6% fee is a good investment. Who are their investors? Do they know this?
I have no special access to the markets (no investor status, no massive sums under management) and I pay no more than 0.07% in fees, in total. Were I resident in the US it would be about 20% less.
All accredited investor means is you have $1m+ in net worth or $250k+ in salary. Out of the range of the average young American, but small peanuts for most people worrying about asset mabagement
I'm slightly less appalled now. It still baffles me though, as common sense would seem to indicate that having money and paying 3.6% are mutually exclusive.
Thanks for clearing that up.
(If only i had a cloth to clear my screen up too..)
If you have the degree of money to invest and you believe the expected the net return exceeds your other investments, you very well might make the bet.
We are, after all, talking about hedge funds. How much variance are you willing to tolerate?
In order to be an accredited investor as an individual, you need (quoted from Wikipedia) "a net worth of at least $1,000,000, excluding the value of one's primary residence, or have income at least $200,000 each year for the last two years (or $300,000 combined income if married) and have the expectation to make the same amount this year."
A lot of people regard it as a solved problem. (Stick it in in an index fund?).
Obviously you'd never advise someone to put all their eggs in one basket, but in this case, you're comparing identical baskets - and one of them as a hole in the bottom.
Aren't hedge funds often thematically a form of insurance? If I had a million, I'd probably put 80% in index funds, 10% in hedge funds that were shorting companies that would be negatively affected by global warming, 10% in hedge funds that were betting on another recession.
How is buying 3000+ of the worlds largest companies "putting eggs in the same basket"? Buying some bonds and real estate funds can be nice as well but the diversification benefits are usually overstated. Worldwide stocks are already incredibly diversified.
It's not an agreement to pay someone 3.6%. The author probably means that since you get 2 and 20, with a bit of performance it ends up being in that ballpark.
"3.6% of assets under management"
Hold on. Let me take another swig of coffee so I can decorate my screen with it.
How can this possibly be true? This would mean that there is some form of accreditation for investing that allows someone to qualify who thinks that a 3.6% fee is a good investment. Who are their investors? Do they know this?
I have no special access to the markets (no investor status, no massive sums under management) and I pay no more than 0.07% in fees, in total. Were I resident in the US it would be about 20% less.
No wonder they're raking it in.
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