
Asian funds set to maintain high management fees - Squadron
Despite the emerging status of Asia Pacific’s private equity market, the region’s largest funds charge more than those from the West when it comes to management fees, an annual survey conducted by Squadron Capital finds, and are unlikely to drop anytime soon.
Squadron's analysis finds that management fees - which remains a key focus for LPs globally - will unlikely be lowered beneath the current 2% bar for Asia's billion-dollar-plus funds, which is "contrary...
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