GP commitments once signaled belief. Today, they’re often financed, waived, or deferred by fund managers raising ever-bigger funds. Is risked capital still part of the equation?
Very interesting. I have believed there is a mediocre return for basics and then there is upside reward of alpha returns. The upside/alpha in all investments depends on one of these or multiples of these - risks, skills/competency, information asymmetry.. sometimes they are intertwined..
What you explain here is very insightful. But I am curious, does that reduce the risk for the capital manager? If not at all.. then it is truly optics. But, if does because there is really no task cash movement but just stacking up and sequencing of capital in-out, then I wonder if the lowered risk means lowered possibility of returns and thus misalignment of incentives between the GP to LP from one fund to another..
Thanks for the thoughtful note Ankur. I suppose it depends on the manager. The bigger ones tend to have larger balance sheets off of which they can invest cash into newer funds. Misalignment is always a priority for LPs but a touchy one when it comes to things fees and expenses. Hard to tell further because of confidentiality of fund terms!
Very interesting. I have believed there is a mediocre return for basics and then there is upside reward of alpha returns. The upside/alpha in all investments depends on one of these or multiples of these - risks, skills/competency, information asymmetry.. sometimes they are intertwined..
What you explain here is very insightful. But I am curious, does that reduce the risk for the capital manager? If not at all.. then it is truly optics. But, if does because there is really no task cash movement but just stacking up and sequencing of capital in-out, then I wonder if the lowered risk means lowered possibility of returns and thus misalignment of incentives between the GP to LP from one fund to another..
I wonder how wrong I must be!!
Thanks for the thoughtful note Ankur. I suppose it depends on the manager. The bigger ones tend to have larger balance sheets off of which they can invest cash into newer funds. Misalignment is always a priority for LPs but a touchy one when it comes to things fees and expenses. Hard to tell further because of confidentiality of fund terms!
Thanks SRK...