Hermes CEO Lowers Boom On High Private Equity Fees
Private equity funds are living in the past, when it comes to charging fees, says Mark Anson, new CEO of Hermes, and he says it’s time for a change. Anson, formerly with The California Public Employees' Retirement System, says he has a problem with the current fee structure. It was fine, say, a decade or so ago, when p.e. firms were smaller and had to impose 2/20% management/performance combo to generate cash to run their operations.
October 1, 2006