Insights
Insights
Educational writing on investment management: the manager's role, fee structures, and portfolio construction. Written for allocators who prefer to understand the machinery.
The Manager's Role
What Does an Investment Manager Actually Do?
The difference between the manager, the fund, the general partner, and the administrator — and why the distinction matters when you are evaluating a private fund.
Fee Structures
Management Fees and Performance Allocations, Explained
How the two-layer fee model works, what a high-water mark does, and the 2026 qualified client thresholds that govern who can be charged performance-based compensation.
Portfolio Construction
ETFs as Building Blocks: Portfolio Construction in a Fund of Funds
What it means to build a portfolio entirely from ETFs, the advantages in transparency, liquidity and cost, and the genuine limitations of the approach.
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