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   "text": "Private fund underperformance may be a product of institutionalization: pension funds have increased their private fund holdings and institutions now make up over two thirds of the private fund investor base, up from 20 percent a decade earlier.",
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   "text": "The stronger performance of activist strategies lets activist private fund managers keep charging the higher 2 and 20 fee structure that other fund managers can no longer demand.",
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   "text": "Unconstrained mutual funds have not delivered superior performance: Morningstar data for funds with three years of investing history offer no evidence that they outperform mutual funds in comparable asset classifications.",
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   "text": "Average unconstrained mutual fund performance over the three years preceding the study was lower than the return on the ten-year Treasury, and poor performance was often accompanied by high fees and increased credit risk.",
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   "text": "Unconstrained mutual funds take on private fund-like risk without a corresponding return advantage: private funds' incentives and investment flexibility help explain their performance advantage over mutual funds, but the performance record of unconstrained mutual funds is less clearly distinguished from that of other mutual funds.",
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   "text": "Using a regression discontinuity design around the 150 million dollar registration threshold with five years of performance data on more than 3500 reporting private funds, the study finds no significant effect of Dodd-Frank requirements on private fund performance, with all p-values above the 5 percent level.",
   "abstract": "Using an array of robustness tests validating the RD results, the paper shows that the requirements introduced by the Dodd-Frank Act create no significant effect on private fund performance. The P-values for all RD results are above the 5% level and confirm the finding of no affect.",
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   "text": "Because traditional fiat VC funds must maintain liquidity to support capital calls from their investors, they are limited in their ability to deploy capital, which affects their return on investment and overall fund performance.",
   "abstract": "Because of their ability to maintain liquidity to support capital calls from their investors, traditional fiat VC funds are limited in their ability to deploy capital.",
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