hard · Private Equity & LBOs
A fund has a 2% management fee on committed capital during the 5-year investment period, then 2% on invested (net of realizations) capital thereafter, a 20% carry, an 8% preferred return, and a 100% GP catch-up. The fund returns capital to LPs ahead of the catch-up. An LP notes that two funds with identical gross returns and identical fee/carry headline terms delivered materially different net returns to LPs.
Holding gross performance and all stated percentages equal, which structural feature most plausibly drives the larger net-return gap between the two funds?
- Whether carried interest is calculated deal-by-deal (American) versus on the whole fund (European), which changes the timing and clawback risk of GP carry
- Whether the preferred return compounds annually versus simple, which changes only the LP's hurdle by a few basis points and is immaterial at 8%
- Whether the catch-up is 100% versus 80%, which only reallocates the catch-up tranche and cannot affect total carry on a fully realized fund
- Whether the management fee steps to invested capital, which is identical across both funds by the stated terms and therefore cannot differ
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